"If you love life, then it’s the field for you. It will lead you, as it led me, because I love people, and I care about the quality of what they do," said Elizabeth Sneddon, South Africa’s first speech and drama professor, who died on Thursday at the age of 98. Sneddon, who never married, died at her home in Durban, a local radio station reported.
”This is a newspaper that has been banned, has been closed down, has been sued. The Mail & Guardian bears the scars of a difficult childhood. The broad outlines of the history ought to be known to you. And if they are not known to you, you obviously have not been watching Hard Copy on SABC TV,” said Irwin Manoim, one of the M&G‘s founding editors, at the newspaper’s 20th anniversary celebrations on Thursday.
New Telkom CEO Papi Molotsane this week addressed the media for the first time since his appointment in September.
South Africa’s broadband consumer lobby group MyADSL on Friday said Telkom’s new ADSL pricing structure would result in local subscribers paying 1Â 000% more than other subscribers around the globe for a similar service. The new billing structure, introduced on November 1, is on a per-usage system.
The latest wave of train torchings has cost Metrorail an estimated R200-million, leaving the company with no more trains to run between Gauteng’s Midway and Vereeniging stations, spokesperson Thandi Mlangeni said on Thursday. Commuters upset over train delays set 28 coaches alight on Wednesday evening.
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>The Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust will be hosting its first official fund-raising event on Friday in Durban to raise money for the former South African deputy president’s legal costs. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> reported on Friday last week that the trust was facing a financial crisis and that it was "far behind" in achieving its target.
A member of the Gauteng legislature, the Freedom Front Plus’s Jaco Mulder, on Tuesday made a second attempt to buy "blacks-only" Eyethu shares from Nedbank. In a statement, Mulder — who is his party’s provincial leader — said he officially handed in his application to his Nedbank branch in Krugersdorp for his Eyethu shares.
”The funeral industry is not as clean as they pretend to be,” says Johan Rousseau, a founding member of the United Funeral Association of South Africa (Ufasa). On Wednesday, the South African Council of Churches and Ufasa called on the government to regulate the industry at the Funeral Indaba towards Regulation in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
Primedia’s Talk Radio 702 has its sights set on Johannesburg’s last available FM signal because it says it suffers from poor audio quality on medium wave. Omar Essack, rival Kagiso Media’s executive director of broadcasting, said Johannesburg’s 92.7 FM signal is "the absolute last" available and "extremely valuable".
The body of an employee of the KwaZulu-Natal department of local government, housing and traditional affairs was discovered in his office on Durban’s Victoria Embankment on Tuesday morning, four days after he was reported missing by his family. The department is in a state of shock, said a spokesperson.