THE task team which was appointed to investigate axing of employees at the South Africa Broadcasting Corporation, including that of journalist Max du Preez, has defined its terms of reference, the SABC board announced on Wednesday. The investigation will include the failure to renew Du Preez’s contract. Du Preez presented the award winning programme Special […]
MORE than 200 students at a teachers’ college in Mpumalanga have won a battle for better food after boycotting the campus caterers for two days. Rector of Mgwenya College of Education, Ian Steenkamp said on Thursday that the 240 students would now get good meals. Students had complained that vegetarians, for example, were fed only […]
Cathy Jenkins:A SECOND LOOK `Let me ask you, Reverend [Musa] Zondi, who should be prosecuted for stockpiling weapons and who should not? If we want the country to be governable, as the Inkatha Freedom Party says it wants to do, who do you think should be prosecuted whenever they transgress the law?” Tim Modise, interviewing […]
Mail & Guardian reporter The state has dismally failed South African women who are raped, according to a new study. Coming at a time when the lobby seeking to protect the interests of rape victims has become more vocal, the research shows that the number of people convicted for rape, as a proportion of rape […]
Was Belgium’s King Leopold II a mass murderer on a par with Adolf Hitler, or a greedy despot who turned a blind eye to a few excesses? Stephen Bates reports As the sun sank slowly over Brussels, its fading rays glinted off the glass domes and towers of the magnificent Victorian greenhouses in the grounds […]
Mungo Soggot Brimstone Pharmaceuticals, the Cape-based company caught with stolen drugs in a police raid, was directly warned in February to be on the lookout for some of the stolen drugs seized in the investigation. Police raided Brimstone’s warehouses last month and uncovered about R1,5-million worth of stolen drugs – including some from a consignment […]
UGANDA’S central bank on Thursday froze the operations of the Co-operative Bank Limited and placed it under statutory management after it ran into severe cash flow problems. The bank is insolvent to the tune of $2,1-million central bank governor Nyonyintono Kikonyogo said. The bank’s closure follows last month country’s collapse of the giant Greenland Bank […]
Mercedes Sayagues:BODY LANGUAGE I saw my ex-boyfriend for the first time in the 10 months since we broke up. We live in different cities and I went to his for a reporting job so it seemed natural to look him up for a friendly chat. As we sat over a ridiculous, formal lunch where we […]
Aaron Nicodemus Reports that an Ebola-like virus was brought home by Zimbabwean soldiers are false, say the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Zimbabwe health officials. Dr Moudi Abdou, WHO representative in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, says the virus has been contained within the Congo, and that no new cases have appeared since April […]
Y Abba Omar Crossfire Being a public servant and, more importantly, being part of the government’s communication system, it is only when I came across the words of James Fallows that I felt encouraged to write this piece. Fallows wrote in Breaking the News: ”In response to suggestions that the press has failed to meet […]