Orlando Pirates must put their off-the-field problems behind them when they play arch-rivals Kaizer Chiefs this weekend Ntuthuko Maphumulo Kaizer Chiefs are determined to replace Orlando Pirates as league champions this season, and new signing Josias Macamo has started where Siyabonga Nomvete left off in scoring goals for Chiefs. The young Mozambican does all his […]
Hilton Hamman When Treverton School recently released four new zebras into its wildlife area, it was the culmination of more than 20 years of environmental work at the school and a day the pupils say they will never forget. “That afternoon our lone zebra, which until then seemed to believe it was a horse, joined […]
Stop water going down the drain Water Awareness Award Finalist: Rand Water’s Water Wise Living Campaign Michelle Nel In many Gauteng communities more than half the water used each day literally goes down the drain without achieving anything of value. This is what spurred Gauteng water utility Rand Water to develop its Water Wise Living […]
A report has found that the criminal justice system fails to uphold the rights of farm labourers Marianne Merten “That Sunday the farmer called him to the farm. When he got there, the boer got out of his bakkie and hit him. When he was finished hitting him, he had to help the farmer.” Hendrik […]
Winner: Klipkop Conservancy Prize: R15 000, sponsored by Nedbank and The Green Trust Judges’ comments: “A remarkable project that has brought together a community in a shared responsibility for natural resources. They are putting passion and their own resources into conserving biodiversity and rehabilitating animals. It is a new project, but it promises to be […]
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The government in partnership with the Post Office has concluded a multi-faceted, R21-million telecommunications project to help the poor and the illiterate to access government services on-line. Dubbed the Public Information Terminal (PiT), the government hopes the multimillion-rand initiative will help bridge the digital divide by providing the public, particularly those […]
Mail & Guardian reporter When Gottfried Chmelar started taking pictures professionally he could not have realised he was documenting an important era in the history of black South Africans. During this period black musicians played a major role in the fight against apartheid. They helped destroy boundaries between black and white and build cross-cultural bridges. […]
The Earth Summit in 2002 is coming home. When hundreds of heads of state and tens of thousands of delegates descend on Johannesburg in September next year for what is officially called the World Summit on Sustainable Development, they will be coming to a country that cares deeply about environmental issues and where people are […]
RUGBY Grant Shimmin in Wellington It sounded for all the world like the DJ on a Wellington radio station was clutching at straws. “I like to think of it as both Australia and South Africa losing,” he said of the Tri-Nations draw in Perth last weekend. All a little desperate, but for New Zealanders the […]
The Treatment Action Campaign is trying to make the goverment supply anti-retrovirals to pregnant women Belinda Beresford A large cocoon of worn baby blankets swaddles a thin, tiny brown body, scowling at light and sucking furiously on his thumb. Baby A is about to become world famous, even if his identity is never publicly known. […]
Cranes make a comeback Joy Webber Blue crane populations are making a comeback. So are the other crane species. During much of the 1980s and 1990s the population of South Africa’s national bird the blue crane fell by almost 80%. But now numbers are on the increase, despite the fact that these birds are still […]
Natural Resources Award Finalist: The Institute of Natural Resources’ Eastern Cape Estuaries Management Programme Hilton Hamann The Eastern Cape Estuaries Management Programme was started by the Institute of Natural Resources in 1998 to help promote the effective management and sustainable use of the estuaries of the Eastern Cape and Border region. “What we try to […]
A Soweto family is using traditional hair-plaiting skills to make ends meet Bongani Majola Ordinary women like Miriam Mothobeki make extraordinary tales. She is a matriarch of 72 years who has ensured the passage of an essential survival skill from generation to generation plaiting hair for a living. Though Mothobeki has long “retired” from ukuqhina […]
Investing in the Environment: Corporate Award Finalist: Cathay Pacific Niki Moore Take a group of youngsters from the crowded Philippines or high-rise Hong Kong, dump them in the vast African bush for a few days, and sit back.?Some kind of spiritual awakening is bound to happen.?And it does. “I’m from Manila,” says a bespectacled student.?”I’m […]
MUNGO SOGGOT, Johannesburg | Friday THE Ministry of Justice says it will forge ahead with an amendment to the Constitution that will give Constitutional Court judges the same “life” tenure as the rest of the judiciary – despite opposition from some key judges. Cape judges are now preparing a memorandum on the amendment, which has […]
Glenda Daniels “Lacking in local protests today is a failure to connect poverty in this country to the government’s economic policies,” says Dennis Brutus, South African poet and a leader in the international globalisation resistance movement. The radical intellectual and lecturer will be a speaker on the NGO panel on reparations at the United Nations […]
Mega Music August 3119h00-22h00NYJB, Robbie Jansen (SA), Diane Schuur (US) (R100 a ticket) September 119h00-22h30NYJB, Sipho Gumede (SA), Roy Ayers (US) (R100 a ticket) September 219h00-21h30Ezra Ngcukana (SA), Diane Schuur (US) (R100 a ticket) Main Theatre August 3120h00-22h30Pops Mohamed (SA), Keiko Matsui (Japan) (R100 a ticket) September 120h00-22h30Hugh Masekela (SA), Keiko Matsui (Japan) (R100 a […]
Stefaans Brmmer A week ago the taxman raided Irvin Khoza, alleging tax delinquency worth millions. Then the cops moved in, nabbing him over an allegedly stolen rifle. At midweek, a relative was arrested with allegedly stolen cars. And this may only be the beginning … It is an open secret that authorities from the Scorpions […]
Community Projects Award Finalist: Garden Route Botanical Garden Trust Niki Moore Tourists visiting the Garden Route in the southern Cape often start looking for the gardens only to find there aren’t any. “We try to tell people the whole area is a garden,” says botanist Yvette van Wijk, “and that’s why it’s called the Garden […]
Glenda Daniels and Jaspreet Kindra Car manufacturers say South Africa’s reputation has been permanently damaged by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa wage strike. The total losses due to the strike is about R1-billion. Employers asked workers to go back to work and the president of the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of […]
THE Nigerian government has sacked four more directors of its ailing national carrier, bringing to five the number of senior officials removed in under a week, officials said on Tuesday. The government on Friday removed Nigeria Airways’ managing director, Abayomi Jones, saying he was not doing enough to prepare the airline’s privatisation. In a statement […]
Ivory Park sets a shining example Michelle Nel Ivory Park is a sprawling township in Midrand, composed largely of informal dwellings, which is far ahead of other areas in terms of environmentally conscious living. And if the project has its way, the Johannesburg unicity will be soon be transformed by following the shining example set […]
Celtic Grove, the imposing son of Fort Wood, scooped the coveted Horse of the Year title and also lifted the Champion Classic Three-Year-Old Colt laurel at the Equus Awards this week both titles richly deserved after an outstanding campaign. One success that must have gone a long way towards Celtic Grove’s achievement was the South […]
Urban Renewal Award Finalist: The Molopo River Basin Project Michelle Nel Mafikeng, the capital of the North West province, has been the cradle of the scouting movement ever since it was conceived by British General Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell during his time there. Scouting enjoys a membership of 30-million worldwide and has the potential to attract […]
Ngwako Modjadji Northern Province police are investigating charges of assault against the former chief minister of Lebowa, Nelson Ramodike, and Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa coordinator Ledikwa Mogoboya. Ramodike is also being investigated on charges of obstructing justice after he allegedly instructed police officers at Maake police station, near Pietersburg, not to open […]
Thabo Mohlala Mxolisi Ntshikilana is one of the thousands of children in South Africa who does not have a home and spends all day begging on the streets. Unlike his counterparts, whose signs are poorly spelled and at the mercy of elements, his is well written and waterproof to boot. The top half his board […]
MALAWIAN President Bakili Muluzi has ruled out placing a ceiling on the price of maize after costs on the staple product trebled earlier in the week due to a food shortage. “(There is) nothing the government can do to intervene on the prices,” Muluzi told reporters on arrival from an investment conference in Uganda. On […]
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The National Directorate of Public Prosecutions has been asked to lay criminal charges against former members of the Northern Province Gambling Board for corruption and contravening the government’s regulations. This follows a two-year investigation by the special investigative unit (SIU), the government’s premier investigative organisation, and the Investigative Directorate for Serious […]
M&G reporter The Green Trust is a partnership between the World Wide Fund for Nature-South Africa and Nedbank. Funded pri-marily through contributions made by Nedbank Green banking clients, the trust has raised more than R37-million for conservation projects. These are some of the projects currently funded by The Green Trust. Trees for Africa The Green […]
If you don’t know Richard Leakey, you may remember the man who persuaded Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi to burn about $3-million worth of ivory in 1988, writes Fiona Macleod. The burning pyre of elephant tusks was a highly publicised statement against the international trade in ivory. Many conservationists in South Africa have not forgiven […]
ATHLETICS Martin Gillingham Bruce Fordyce, South Africa’s most celebrated athlete, has thrown his weight behind the growing number of officials and athletes who are calling for answers to accusations that the sport’s top officials in this country are corrupt. It was claimed three months ago that more than R9-million had gone missing from Athletics South […]
Sad and pathetic! The idea in the article “A marriage made in heaven” (August 17) that liberals in the Democratic Alliance are not “good” liberals because they dare to criticise the African National Congress is such a betrayal of liberal principles it makes my head spin! Liberalism is based on a belief in individual rights, […]