Sarah Duguid A housing compound for workers at the Sangiro chicken factory lies tucked away behind a rabble of weeds and barbed-wire fencing near Hartbeespoort Dam, an area declared by Unesco to be a world heritage site: the Cradle of Humankind. A pile of rubbish sprawls across the path at the entrance to the compound, […]
Khadija Magardie, a Mail & Guardian reporter who took part in the SA team that observed the Zimbabwe election, reports on the deep schisms in the group which met this week to thrash out a final position on the poll The presidential foot must be starting to tap impatiently. The 14 days given to the […]
Beats for beatniks Matthew Krouse The world, according to trumpeter Erik Truffaz, is a place of late-Fifties nostalgia where beatnik chicks lounge around, while the sound of “experimental” jazz wafts through the air, thick with the smoke of marijuana. It’s no surprise, then, that the cover of his album Mantis has abstract organic shapes on […]
Shyaka Kanuma A high court judge has issued a ruling against the Department of Home Affairs to prevent the deportation of a Congolese, Jacques Katambayi, back to his country. The case of Katambayi, who was represented by Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), is an unusual one: he actually was being deported by Australia. Katambayi was […]
Juan Pablo Montoya brings a little insouciance back to Formula One Jim White The sound of summer fills the clean, clear air on the Costa Brava. A whine like a particularly persistent mosquito echoes through the orange groves, so loud it is playing the xylophone on the rib cage. The Williams grand prix operation is […]
Charlene Smith An innovative project in Pietermari-tzburg is using soccer and soccer players to spread Aids awareness in the highly infected province. Gethwane Makhaye of Targeted Aids Intervention first began using soccer as a way of teaching young people about Aids some years ago, after she had finished a pilot study for Unicef that looked […]
Ronald Suresh Roberts: apology On March 28 we published a story (“ANC tycoons in diamond rights row”) which suggested, among other things, that Ronald Suresh Roberts was among those who “headed” the New Diamond Corporation (NDC), which is currently in dispute with a section of a Northern Cape community over mineral rights on their land. […]
Thebe Mabanga The leadership of the Pan Africanist Congress has refused to condemn the violent disruption of schools in the East Rand township of Tsakane by its student wing, blaming Minister of Education Kader Asmal and African National Congress-aligned teachers for provoking the upheavals. The school disruption campaign by the Pan Africanist Student Organisation (Paso), […]
A group of Americans is taking part in a hike to raise funds for research into a cure for Aids Susan Colby A group of 150 United States Aids activists will hike through the Cedarberg in the Western Cape, in an attempt to raise funds for the development of a vaccine against Aids. Each hiker […]
M&G reporter The Elle and Elizabeth Arden Visible Difference Award for the contribution of women to South African society enters its third year, calling on the public to rally behind those remarkable women who work tirelessly to make a difference in their communities. At the launch of this year’s awards Elle and Elizabeth Arden handed […]
In future consumers will be able to do almost anything via their phones, writes David Shapshak ‘O and of course the vending mach-ines,” Karri Hautanen says, after rattling off a sophisticated list of what you can use your cellphone to pay for in Finland. When I comment on his laissez-faire attitude to what is still […]
From being the pride of Africa, South Africa is becoming more and more like never-never land. The recent, long-awaited announcement by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang that HIV does cause Aids, and that this is the basis of the government’s policy on the epidemic, is now being seriously undermined by the actions of a group in […]
The best of South African schoolboy rugby is on view this weekend Andy Capostagno It was kind of the Super 12 organisers to give the South African sides an Easter off. After the dismal results of the first half of the tournament, a week away from the game is just what the doctor ordered. And […]
SOCCER Ngwako Modjadji This week will be crucial for the top Premier Soccer League (PSL) clubs as it will sort out the contenders from the pretenders. The top four at the moment are the Cape-based Santos, Supersport United, Moroka Swallows and Orlando Pirates with fifth-placed Sundowns and Pirates having games in hands. Sundowns’ hopes of […]
Washington | Monday FORMER California congressman Gary Condit has been summoned by a grand jury investigating the disappearance last year of Sandra Levy, an young intern he had an affair with, The Washington Post said on Tuesday. Condit, who last month lost a primary race to run for re-election for his Democratic seat, will testify […]
analysis Piers Pigou The government has taken a series of self-inflicted public relations knocks recently most of which could have been mitigated, or even avoided, by a more careful approach to the messages it sends out through its actions, and its inaction. The issue of reparations is an example of this. After promising R800-million for […]
Khadija Magardie A series of interviews published in the 2001 South African Health Review underscore concerns that doctors and nurses in public hospitals and clinics are among the major culprits discriminating against people with HIV. Published annually by the Health Systems Trust, the review is the most comprehensive overview of issues affecting the health-care sector. […]
OLA AWONIYI, Abuja | Tuesday AFRICAN leaders flew to Nigeria on Monday ahead of a one-day summit on ways of tackling damaging wars and corruption and pressing for an opening up of rich Western markets to African goods. Presidents and officials from up to 20 countries were due on Tuesday to discuss ways of putting […]
BODY LANGUAGE Maureen Freely It’s been available in Sanskrit for 1 700 years and it’s 129 years since Sir Richard Burton blackened his name by translating it into English. Although many generations of grateful schoolboys went on to read it in the dark, it was not until the 1960s that the Kamasutra became the sort […]
TENNIS Iain Carter If you’ve inherited genes that survived eight years’ hard labour in a uranium mine, emerging from the lows dealt by a life spent extracting vast riches from playing tennis shouldn’t be too much of a problem. Nor does it appear so for Martina Hingis, even though she’s been handed a sentence of […]
Matthew Krouse Will adult television audiences respond to the documentary series Steps for the Future the way that school kids are supposed to respond to the Learning Channel? However harrowing these tales of HIV survival are, Steps should be prescribed viewing in every home. In an important manoeuvre, SABC1 has secured 15 episodes of this […]
‘The Great Betrayal” (March 22) concerned itself with the farcical endorsement of the Zimbabwean election by the South African observer mission and the ANC, yet even when dealing with such a clear-cut issue, Drew Forrest finds space to have a swipe at the Democratic Alliance (DA). Forrest holds an obvious amount of animosity towards the […]
A Beautiful Mind got the best picture Oscar. But do biopics really work? John Patterson For a genre often considered the very essence of fermented box-office poison, the biopic seems to be doing all right at the moment. Usually we go years between big-screen biographies of public figures. A film like Malcolm X will flop […]
RUNNING Martin Gillingham Even in these changing times the Two Oceans Marathon has retained its significance among the crown jewels of South African sporting events. But, as is becoming the trend, it is a foreigner who is most likely to leave Cape Town on Saturday night clasping the family silver. This year’s race has attracted […]
Liverpool’s recent success has been built on the Red brick wall at the back their Finnish captain Sami Hyypia Michael Walker It did not feel possible at the time, in those emotional moments after the final whistle at Anfield, but Liverpool’s week got even better. Liverpool will have been quietly content to draw Bayer Leverkusen […]
David Macfarlane Suspicion is rampant at Unisa that controversial council chairperson McCaps Motimele pulled a fast one to get himself re-elected last week for a further term of office. In developments that have left senior academics seething, Motimele at first let it be known earlier this month that he was unavailable for another term; and […]
The health minister is to petition the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal against a compulsion order issued by the Pretoria High Court.
Johannesburg | Tuesday ALL visitors to South Africa’s malaria areas, including the Kruger National Park, should take anti-malarial tablets, Netcare Travel clinics advised on Monday. This follows requests from individuals in the tourism sector for this recommendation to be dropped as it “scares off” tourists. But Dr Andrew Jamieson, medical director of Netcare Travel Clinics […]
I remember the first story of Lionel’s that I ever read: <i>Down Upon The Green Grass</i> I believe it was entitled ? and it was set at the Zoo Lake.
Kabul | Tuesday UP to 4 800 people were feared killed and around 10 000 made homeless when a severe earthquake wiped out an isolated rural town in northern Afghanistan, UN and Afghan officials said on Tuesday. The first shockwave measuring up to 6,0 on the Richter scale struck around 7:30 pm (1500 GMT) on […]
Beirut | Tuesday EGYPTIAN President Hosni Mubarak said in an interview published on Tuesday that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat should not attend this week’s Arab summit even if the Israelis allow him to. He told the Lebanese daily An-Nahar that there was a major risk of the Israelis making it impossible for Arafat to return […]
US actress Jennifer Connelly and British actor Jim Broadbent won best supporting actor Oscars at Sunday’s 74th annual Academy Awards, as fantasy film <i>Lord of the Rings</i> took an early awards lead.