Juju in the dock
The country’s favourite youth leader has been in the hot seat in court lately. Afrikaner interest group AfriForum has taken African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) president Julius Malema to...
View ArticleThe Royal Wedding
You may be able to feign disinterest in the wedding, but we know better. The M&G‘s resident royalist (who, come Kate and Wills’s big day, will be glued to the screen, tissues in hand, It Should...
View ArticleDA Young Professionals: Is South Africa winning the war on crime?
Gareth Cliff chats to DA spokesperson on police, Diane Kohler-Barnard, in the latest event from the DA Young Professionals, against the backdrop of the ongoing saga around controversial police leaders...
View ArticleLonmin shootings: liveblog
Follow the Mail & Guardian‘s liveblog as shootings have left several dead at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine late on Thursday afternoon. Mine workers have been striking since Friday in an...
View ArticleMines in crisis
Tensions in South Africa’s mining sector, in particular the platinum belt, have reached boiling point. Some are calling it a “Miner Spring”. What started as a labour dispute at Lonmin in Marikana, it...
View ArticleMiddle East rages over Anti-Islam film
(AFP) Protesters across the Middle East are furious at a California-made anti-Islam film. Attacks on US embassies in Libya and Egypt have spread to Sudan, Tunisia and Yemen. Follow the Mail &...
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