commission Khadija Magardie The Human Rights Commission (HRC) is investigating possible criminal charges against Minister of Public Enterprises Jeff Radebe. This follows an application by the Mail & Guardian to investigate Radebe, after remarks he made in a submission to the HRC during the racism in the media hearings earlier this year. Radebe accused M&G […]
Nawaal Deane SOCCER Bafana Bafana jetted off from Europe to the United States for the Four Nations Nike Cup Tournament starting in Washington on Saturday. The four countries competing will be South Africa, the United States, Mexico and the Republic of Ireland. South Africa will open their US tour against the US on June 2 […]
Heather Hogan A Dutch Reformed minister’s son was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Johannesburg High Court this week for the hijack and murder of the bodyguard of Joe Nhlanhla, the former minister of intelligence. Pule Mokoena (26) appeared in court along with three other men, all of whom were facing charges of murder, robbery […]
Last week former Bafana Bafana player Eric September was sentenced to 27 years in prison for the murder of his fiance – he never revealed why he did it Nawaal Deane In 1994 Eric September was on the road to becoming a Bafana Bafana star, having made his debut for the national soccer side. At […]
MARIAM ISA, Johannesburg | Friday 10.50am. THE country’s reserves of gold and foreign exchange rose in May despite a heavy outflow of capital during the month, data on Friday showed, sending a good signal to domestic markets recovering from a recent beating. The country’s central bank also managed to keep its net open foreign exchange […]
workers Glenda Daniels An International Resource and Information Group (Ilrig) survey released on June 1 by the municipal workers in Cape Town showed that there is very little support for the local government’s restructuring plans. Contents of the survey centred on work organisation, labour relations, service delivery and municipal restructuring (including the Unicity mega-city model). […]
LUCIA MUTIKANI, Johannesburg | Friday 3.20pm. SHARES on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange will remain under the spell of US markets next week, despite increasing potential for an upward thrust, traders and asset managers said on Friday. ”The thing to watch out for is the US markets. The feeling in our market is that we are […]
John Grobler The tangled skeins of apartheid’s past in Namibia got yet another knot this week when a former security branch policeman claimed that as many as 2 000 former Swapo guerrillas were at one stage held in the camps from where Dr Wouter Basson’s 200 victims were allegedly selected. Former security branch member Linus […]
Ivor Powell Top management at the SABC quietly set up a committee earlier this year dedicated to resisting the shake-up it expected from an independent consultancy’s investigation into how to salvage the corporation. Human resources chief Cecilia Khuzwayo (who was appointed acting chief executive after the axing of former CE Reverend Hawu Mbatha), as well […]
Martin Woollacott in Freetown President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah’s ministers gathered on Tuesday at the presidential lodge to greet the head of state on his return from a meeting of regional heads in Nigeria. The mood at the Cabinet meeting was termed optimistic, but the truth is that Sierra Leone got less than it wanted in […]