Yearly Archives: 2001

Magnus Heystek has sustained a final kick in the teeth over allegations that he abused a family trust. Mungo Soggot reports Magnus Heystek, the financial guru and former darling of the media, has paid a “very large” out-of-court settlement to two young boys after being accused of mismanaging and profiting from their family trust. Heystek’s […]

Bongani Majola “Condoms! Condoms!” shouts Vusi Fahla (28) as he distributes condoms to the passing taxis. Words such as HIV/Aids, condoms and AZT are an inseparable part of his life. He is the project manager for Friends for Life, an NGO that provides life skills to HIV-infected people, home-based care for patients and pre-test, post-test […]

Durban | Friday OPERATIONS at two of South Africa’s ports came to a virtual standstill on Thursday as thousands of workers downed tools over payment of performance bonuses and upgrade reviews. Some 4 000 members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) are participating in the strike in the east coast port […]

An Anglican clergyman is preparing to tell his congregation that he is HIV-positive, writes Belinda Beresford Would you share the blood of Christ with someone who has HIV? Would you support fellow church members with the virus, or would you condemn them as sinful? And would it make any difference if one of those fellow […]

The voice of Nelson Mandela, imprisoned in 1964 and sworn in as South Africa’s president 30 years later, was preserved forever on Thursday.

PAUL KIRK, Durban | Friday President Thabo Mbeki’s ministerial committee that oversaw the Government’s 66-billion arms acquisition intervened to set conditions for the arms investigation after Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota initially gave investigators carte blanche. The Mail & Guardian reported earlier that the executive invoked sections of the apartheid-era Special Defence Account Act to […]

I am appalled at the sloppy reporting and sensational headline that you permit in the article by Paul Kirk (“Newspaper sales figures ‘inflated’”, November 23). Routine checking would have established ignorance and a personal agenda. Independent Newspapers is a reputable company. We were founder members of the Audit Bureau of Circulations and comply with its […]

Minister of Education Kader Asmal’s dramatic intervention this week in the alarming governance fiasco at South Africa’s largest university, Unisa, has come not a moment too soon. For more than a year the head of Unisa’s council, advocate McCaps Motimele, has been running the university like a tinpot dictator, creating factions and conflict in an […]

But Asmal’s drastic intervention this week in Unisa’s governance crisis has delighted academics at the troubled university David Macfarlane Nearly R200 000 in less than two years: that’s the cash Unisa council chairperson McCaps Motimele has milked from the university in contravention of Unisa policies, says the auditor general. But scarcely anyone on the controversy-ridden […]

Barry Streek The government has scrapped plans to impose a levy on the advertising industry to finance the proposed Media Development and Diversity Agency, which will now be funded by the media industry and government. The print and broadcast media have agreed to provide one-third of the agency’s five-year budget of R256-million R85-million over five […]