David Macfarlane and Glenda Daniels The University of the Witwatersrand faces a massive showdown today as its council for the first time considers the most substantial objections by workers, the student movement and some academics to restructuring. At the same time, the Mail & Guardian has been told by a senior academic, Wits management is […]
Glenda Daniels If the newly formed Millennium Council, a bilateral between labour and business, modelled on the successful Irish model, works, it would be great for South Africa. Now all we need is the economic growth that followed the formation of the Irish counterpart. The Irish bilateral, where social dialogue between business and labour yielded […]
lottery cash Barry Streek More than 8E000 NGOs have been registered in terms of the Non-profit Organisations Act, Minister of Welfare and Population Development Zola Skweyiya has disclosed. This is far short of his own department’s estimate of between 45E000 and 80E000 non- profit organisations (NPOs) in South Africa, but it is a significant achievement […]
Zanu-PF land-grab policy Jaspreet Kindra African National Congress secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe this week endorsed Zanu-PF’s stand on land appropriation, denying the ruling Zimbabwean party was manipulating the issue for electoral purposes. Motlanthe said in an interview the situation in Zimbabwe had suffered from “misrepresentation of facts” by the media, claiming press reports had inflated […]
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 […]
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 […]