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/ 23 November 2007
Even the most disinterested observer would have picked up that the South African legal fraternity has been through trying times in the past few months. While women lawyers have used the year to reassert their place in the profession — launching the South African Women Lawyers’ Association in October — black and white lawyers have been at one another’s throats.
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/ 16 November 2007
In May this year, shortly after being named the AdReview Advertising Person of the Year, Groovin Nchabeleng told the Mail & Guardian that his company had hardly scratched the surface of the media space. At the time, he was reluctant to go into detail about what he meant. The past couple of weeks have prised open his little secret, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
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/ 12 November 2007
I will not hold it against you if you read this and think it is about football. But it is not. Last week the Premier Soccer League’s board of governors decided to pay some of their number a once-off R70-million gratuity, with luck ending months of speculation over payments to individuals instrumental in getting football’s sponsorship to top the R1-billion mark.
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/ 9 November 2007
The expectation would be that conversation with the chair of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies would be about anti-Semitism, the future of the Jewish state and the Palestinian question. These are, of course, the grave and pressing issues that concern the diaspora of Jews. But there is also the wave of confidence and joy that has gripped the South African imagination, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
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/ 26 October 2007
Hardly a month after Finance Minister Trevor Manuel cast aspersions on the integrity of local football administrators, the Premier Soccer League (PSL) has suffered another setback with the finding that Mamelodi Sundowns were guilty of forging the signature of Jose Torrealba to extend the striker’s contract.
If you know of a mall in your neighbourhood, assume that Maponya, which just opened in Soweto, is more or less the same, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
By now Finance Minister Trevor Manuel must be conceding — privately — his allegation that Absa corruptly won the right to use its name for the premiership championship was as hasty as it was uninformed. OnTuesday, the Premier Soccer League dismissed out of hand that some of its executive committee members had received or stood to receive a 10% commission.
This is the story of Jabu Nyembe. Jabu was born and raised in Zola, Soweto, just as the 1960s were coming to an end. He lived an interesting life. Especially for one who died when he was only 15. Jabu was my cousin. He was also a thug. The streets gave him the name Mgedla. He always was a problem child. Before he was 10, he had quit school and he returned many times.
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/ 28 September 2007
In the 1980s an unknown midfielder-cum-striker, Owen da Gama, came off the bench for Moroka Swallows to score in a 2-1 victory in the Soweto derby against Orlando Pirates. Little did he know then that he would one day be the Bucs’ head coach.
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/ 14 September 2007
Orlando Pirates coach Bibey Mutombo says he is not the first Pirates coach to be put under pressure from the fans. Duh! Given that this is the club’s 70th anniversary and that it boasts millions of passionate and opinionated fans, it stands to reason there must have been one or two other coaches before Mutombo, whose governance of the team did not meet the supporters’ expectations.