Marketing people like to think of themselves as "creatives", but last week a few red (or indeed, orange) lines were drawn around their art.
While it’s all doom-and-gloom in the United Kingdom and the United States, other countries are finding newspaper readership at healthy levels.
For the second year, it has proved impossible to find a winner worthy of an award for improving the continent’s "quality of human life".
World champions South Africa defeated Italy 29-13 despite a disjointed and lethargic performance at the Puma Stadium in Witbank on Saturday.
United States President Barack Obama on Friday renewed his call for Burma’s military rulers to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Steve Irwin crew throws rotten butter during confrontation with Italian and Libyan fishermen over endangered bluefin tuna catch.
The Kimberley Process should suspend Zimbabwe when the global diamond regulator meets next week, rights groups said on Friday.
There could not be a more poignant moment for the release of a book about Nelson Mandela’s personal life, writes <b>Mark Gevisser</b>.
Tournament teeters between triumph and disaster, not quite living up to expectations of the evangelists, but not fulfilling dire prophecies either.
The United Nations refugee agency says Zimbabweans top the list of people seeking asylum abroad.
While exploring the public statues of the city, Stephen Gray tracks the literary links between Portugal and South Africa.
The price of gold surged to an all-time high point above $1 258 an ounce on Friday.
A Cape Town woman who injured her throat at a vuvuzela blowing competition said on Friday that she was on the mend.
Township restaurants are burgeoning but still driven mostly by locals. They’re cheap and cheerful; the atmosphere is terrific and the food is hearty.
Maputo is awash with glimpses of decaying colonial grandeur, observes <b>David Smith</b> during a recent visit.
A recent measles outbreak in Eastern and Southern Africa has killed more than 700 people, the UN said on Friday.
Cinema Nouveau is giving away 50 tickets to <i>M&G</i> readers for a special Father’s Day screening of <i> The Boys are Back</i>, starring Clive Owen
Al-Qaeda-inspired insurgents attacked the barracks of Somali government forces in southern Mogadishu on Friday.
Veteran canoeist Graeme Pope-Ellis died in an accident on his farm in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday, the Dusi organising committee said on Friday.
Organisers are hoping some of the glamour of the World Cup will rub off now that huge numbers of foreign media and theatre critics are in SA.
The vuvuzelas providing the ear-splitting soundtrack for the Soccer World Cup in South Africa are proving a gold mine for manufacturers in China.
<i>Mail & Guardian</i> hacks gaze into their crystal balls to place a few bets on the Soccer World Cup.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: <b>Peter Bradshaw</b> reviews <em>Broken Embraces</em>, the new film by Pedro Almodóvar.
Mexico pulled off a surprise 2-0 victory over France on Thursday, leaving the 2006 World Cup finalists facing serious risk of elimination.
Greece came back from a goal down to beat Nigeria 2-1 in the World Cup on Thursday after the African team had to play with 10 men.
Twenty initiates have died following botched circumcisions in the Eastern Cape, the provincial health department said on Thursday.
South African police fired a stun grenade and rubber bullets on Thursday to break up a protest by security guards demanding payment.
We watch Bafana’s match against Uruguay at the Radium Beerhall, one of Jo’burg’s oldest pubs. Eager fans share their thoughts ahead of the match and their disappointment following the 3-0 loss.
Coaches have brushed off the challenge of chilly weather but an expert on tactics says the cold could limit the showcasing of individual brilliance.
Extreme cold, wind and heavy rain has killed 600 African penguin chicks on Bird Island, a reserve in Algoa Bay near Port Elizabeth.
Every week, we choose a great song that says something about what it means to be South African. Artist: Celtic Rumours
Song: Slow Rain
Tibetans are rebuilding their livelihoods with one of the world’s most ghoulish parasites — the caterpillar fungus.