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M&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…

It was the prospect of power sharing between barely reconciled ideological and moral enemies that confounded the people. (Photo  Louise Gubb/CORBIS SABA/Corbis via Getty Images)

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….

“Purple rain” quells Cape riot

Heavily-armed police used sjamboks and their new water cannon – immediately dubbed “purple rain” because of the dye in the water to disperse crowds in Adderley Street, Cape Town,…

‘Sun City’ on radio blacklists

“SUN CITY”, the anti-apartheid song released in the US last week, is unlikely to be heard on any local radio stations.

The dead man who haunts all our futures

Matthew Goniwe? Just one more death. Just one more death that could shake our country. ANTON HARBER reports on the Cradock community leader, pictured on the right, who was…