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/ 23 February 2005
Simphiwe Mbalula’s home was saved last month when a runaway fire razed about 3Â 200 shacks in the Joe Slovo informal settlement outside Cape Town. Instead of relief, he feels unlucky, as all the victims of the fire have been fast-tracked to the front of council housing lists. They will receive houses as part of the first phase of the N2 Gateway Project.
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/ 16 February 2005
The Cape has a reputation for doing things differently and Capitec Bank’s head office, nicknamed "the campus", in Stellenbosch is no exception. There is not a suit or tie in sight. Capitec was formed in 2000 when micro-lending group PSG seized the gap in mass banking. Simplified banking at low cost is the core, as is changing customers’ attitudes.
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/ 28 January 2005
As criminal proceedings hang over 40 MPs linked to Travelgate, Parliament’s multimillion-rand travel voucher scam, liquidation hearings that could implicate a further 70 parliamentarians are stuck in the Cape High Court. The 40 MPs currently involved in plea bargaining negotiations with the Scorpions were clients of two travel agencies that have been liquidated.
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/ 21 January 2005
Tender documents for Cape Town’s R1-billion N2 Gateway Project warn of ”disruptive forces” that may emerge in response to the removal of residents. The Cape Town City Council documents, issued on December 30 last year, refer to the need to ”mitigate the impact” of possible disruption.
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/ 17 December 2004
Developers of a multimillion-rand luxury residential resort in the Cape winelands may have to go back to the drawing board as a result of a protection order issued by the South African Heritage Resource Agency to preserve the cultural history of the region between Stellenbosch and Paarl. There could be significant changes in the initial design plans at the exclusive Boschendal estate.
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/ 10 December 2004
”What about the MPs?” was the question on Monday when the seven travel agents arrested in connection with the R16-million Travelgate — Parliament’s travel voucher scam — appeared in court. Almost six months after the travel agents’ arrests, Travelgate remains a tangle of legal proceedings — from liquidations of the four implicated agencies, to high court action by Parliament to reclaim owed monies.
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/ 3 December 2004
Disgraced former Northern Cape ANC chairperson looks set to regain party leadership, John Block is expected to return to topple the acting chairperson, Premier Dipuo Peters, this weekend. Block resigned from all his positions in the government and the ANC last year after he admitted to abusing taxpayers’ money to finance an expensive jazz habit.
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/ 26 November 2004
The vuvuzela has made its debut on the catwalk. Its blasts egged on the 64 clothing factory workers competing for the title of Spring Queen in Cape Town’s jam-packed Good Hope Centre. Cape Flats machinists swapped the shop floor for the catwalk to kick off a nine-day clothing industry spectacular.
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/ 19 November 2004
In the past eight months a study has shown 10 000 movements by sharks in False Bay, the site of this week’s fatal shark attack. Marine biologists maintain sharks have always been around. But the increased number of people in the water because of a ready availability of wetsuits and the increased popularity of water sports has heightened the likelihood of attack.
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/ 19 November 2004
Another legal stand-off between brand parody specialist Laugh It Off and SABMiller has forced the small company to drop a satirical image of Carling Black Label beer to get its calendar and annual on youth culture into stores. Delays caused by the global brewery’s legal moves to halt publication are extracting heavy costs, said Laugh It Off founder Justin Nurse.