Peter Dickson Just two months before the election, Eastern Cape chiefs, whose influential vote is the hotly contested key to victory for the African National Congress or the United Democratic Movement in the densely populated rural Transkei, have been given a massive salary increase that will cost taxpayers R30-million a year. Eastern Cape Premier Makhenkesi […]
this city Marianne Merten The police have spent a vast amount of the money allocated to Operation Good Hope, aimed at breaking the cycle of violence in the Cape Peninsula, on transport and providing bodyguards to protect detectives assigned to it. Financial statements in the possession of the Mail & Guardian show just more than […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer The team and reserves walked on to the pitch holding hands Brazil-style, formed a circle, bowed heads and prayed, then kicked footballs into the sparse George Goch Stadium crowd. On the warm, partially cloudy weekend afternoon the future of Moroka Swallows Football Club was at stake when they tackled Dynamos from the […]
AN East Rand bomb disposal unit defused two mini-limpet mines found by railway workers under railway tracks between the Lindella and Katlehong stations on Wednesday, police said. Police spokesman Captain Andy Pieke said the mines’ detonators were destroyed in a controlled explosion by a bomb disposal expert. He said the mines appeared old and could […]
Prominent journalists, friends and relatives who knew veteran photojournalist and TV newsman John Rubython crammed into Cape Town’s St George’s cathedral on Thursday to pay their last respects. Rubython (58) was stabbed to death in his Woodstock home early on Monday morning by a young burglar. Rubython’s partner, Melanie Junker, and their three-month-old baby, Marie-Hlen, […]
THE Nigerian government has ordered immediate payment of the approved minimum wage to end a public sector strike in 24 of Nigeria’s 36 states, a union leader said, according to reports on Friday. Sylvester Ogbeifun, a local chairman of the main trades union federation, the Nigeria Labour Congress, said the office of the chief of […]
exports Mungo Soggot The taxman is part of a team tasked with probing the way the state evaluates diamonds following an unprecedented finding that De Beers undervalued gems due for export. Minister of Minerals and Energy Penuell Maduna appointed the team of civil servants this week after meeting with De Beers. It emerged last week […]
Coenraad Visser Tenors at the end of their careers. That is what the State Theatre’s production of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s I Pagliaci and the Three Tenors Bravo Africa Concert on Sunday at the Union Buildings have in common. In the bloody twins, Maurizio Frusoni manages Turridu with musicality and little voice, but then […]
Ian Clayton Minister of Provincial Affairs and Constitutional Development Valli Moosa announced this week that the government’s allocation to local authorities would be R2,3-billion during the current financial year, an increase from the R2,1-billion allocated in the last financial year. Moosa added that local authorities with greater need would “gradually” receive more direct government aid […]
RIOT police in Zimbabwe used tear gas on Wednesday to stop protesting students marching into the centre of Harare to press home demands for better loans and shorter vactions. Police fired tear gas at thousands of students who were trying to leave the Univeristy of Zimbabwe campus — situated in one of Harare’s upmarket suburbs […]