Yearly Archives: 2001

Jaspreet Kindra African National Congress MPL Patricia Lion-Cachet and the former mayor of Kyalami, Isaac Mahlangu, are earning two salaries at the taxpayers’ expense. Lion-Cachet defected to the ANC from the Democratic Alliance before last December’s municipal elections. Both earn incomes as councillors and as members of the Gauteng Tourism Board. In terms of the […]

Lawyers acting for former Eastern Cape Department of Education superintendent general Modidima Mannya have served the premier and education MEC with a letter demanding R1,5-million in damages for defamation David Macfarlane and Roshila Pillay A clique-ridden morass of corruption, financial unaccountability, nepotism, appointment scams, procurement irregularities and dysfunctional management that’s what Modidima Mannya says he […]

Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION I was surprised and not a little disappointed that Mr Mbeki didn’t kick off his ritual sermonising at last Friday’s opening of Parliament with some poetry. We have all come to expect the state president’s outpourings to be well versed, as it were. Below is a humble suggestion, what might have been […]

Police are trying to cover up shocking crime statistics that could devastate tourism, writes Chris McGreal The first thing the growing bands of foreign tourists see after they leave Cape Town airport is never mentioned in the publicity extolling the magnificence of Table Mountain and the glistening sands of Camps Bay. The N2 highway into […]

For the first time in its decades-long history, the Legal Aid Board is being run like a proper company Khadija Magardie Ashley Ally is the new skipper at the helm of the Legal Aid Board. His vision, he says, is simply to fulfil the mandate of the board ensuring “justice for all”. As chief executive […]

David Le Page De Beers’s long and controversial cross-holding with Anglo American is to end, and the diamond giant plans to delist to become a private company. At an investors’ conference on Thursday, De Beers and Anglo American executives spelt out the logic behind the restructuring of the ownership of the world’s largest diamond company […]

Jaspreet Kindra The removal of two Democratic Alliance members from the position of chair of the public accounts committees in the Eastern Cape and Gauteng legislatures last week is being interpreted by the opposition as an attempt by the African National Congress to muzzle independent voices. The ANC is the majority party in both legislatures. […]

British lone yacht skipper Ellen MacArthur logs 95 days of supreme physical effort, cheating death in an icy ocean and battling sleep deprivation before she sails into port to end her Vende Globe single-handed adventure Day 1, November 9 2000 On a grey, wet and cold afternoon, Ellen MacArthur visits every skipper on the dockside, […]

Guy Willoughby theatre Is the Spier Summer Festival’s avowed commitment to excellence and the immediate community actually working? With the fifth annual Festival three-quarters through it runs from November to March it’s a good juncture to take stock. Their latest production, the Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim musical West Side Story a rumbustious retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Until November last year, Keith Kunene enjoyed an enviable reputation as one of South Africa’s leading businessmen. He heads one of the country’s largest, multimillion-rand black family empires, the Kunene Brothers. His business achievements have earned him accolades and rave reviews in the country’s glossy magazines. By all accounts, Kunene is […]