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latest news & developmentsM&G reporter scoops award
Mail & Guardian journalist Donna Block has won the inaugural Citadel Personal Finance Journalist of the Year award for the print media category. The awards are given in two…
M&G in a time warp
A century from now the foyer of the Park and Long building in Cape Town could be torn up by enthusiastic Mail & Guardian readers keen to see a real “dead tree” version of their…
HRC racism probe: What the HRC wanted and what our lawyers answered
The Human Rights Commission says that it served subpoenas on newspaper editors, including the editor of the Mail & Guardian, Phillip van Niekerk, because it believed this was the…
M&G goes for a sexy look
The Mail & Guardian has entered the millemium with a bang, bringing to its readers an exciting new redesign and a newspaper jam-packed with even more of Africa’s best reading…
Squabbles leading up to the great debate
After three weeks of negotiation and at least six meetings, the African National Congress, the National Party and the SABC have finally settled on the format of next Thursday’s…
Clash of the television titans
Thursday’s TV debate between South Africa’s two leading statesmen promises to be a psychological drama revealing much about how they are going to rule the country together.
ANC at Amsterdam festival: No easing of culture boycott
South African artists attending the Culture in Another South Africa (Casa) conference in Amsterdam
Arts Festival ’86 cancelled
Arts Festival ’86 towards a people’s culture The programme of the Arts Festival ’86 in Cape Town was booked on run in this space. Unfortunately the festival was banned on…
Face to Face: Harry Oppenheimer and Cyril Ramaphosa (First Weekly Mail Birthday)
Two of the country’s most influential men met for the first time on a Weekly Mail platform this week. Former Anglo American chairman Harry Oppenheimer and National Union of…
Historic Weekly Mail Birthday Debate
THE Weekly Mail will celebrate its first birthday next week by hosting a historic meeting: the first direct encounter between the most powerful men in the mining industry, Harry…
Two Mail staff found guilty
Weekly Mail Reporter Two Weekly Mail journalists, co-editor Anton Harber and freelance reporter Jo-Anne Bekker, were this week found guilty of contempt of court for three…
WM report on Delmas treason trial
In last week’s Weekly Mail, a report appeared on page nine which purported to contain notes made by Mr Justice K van Dijkhorst regarding a video shown at the Delmas treason. At…
About-face from a key State witness
The little-publicised treason trial of 22 men at Delmas took a surprise turn this week when a young state witness said that she fabricated her evidence after being sjambokked in…
Journalist sues over sjambok attack
Weekly Mail’s news editor Anton Harber is suing the minister of Law and Order for damages in the first series of actions arising from assaults on journalists during the first…
No sunshine on radio
The anti-apartheid hit single “Sun City” will definitely not be heard on Radio 702….