An internal audit report forecasts a whopping R2-billion loss for South African Airways (SAA) in the 2002/03 financial year — despite the fact that it will notch up a healthy operating profit.
Every day since he was secretly spirited into Iraq by the United States military, Ahmad Chalabi, the man favoured by the Pentagon to succeed Saddam Hussein, has been holding court with local dignitaries in Nassiriya. But allegations of financial impropriety linger over Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress, the most important of which concern a -million banking scandal in Jordan.