Sherilee Bridge Accusations of espionage in the cellular industry have done little to fuel confidence in the two network operators, MTN and Vodacom. They have been slammed for “petty infighting” while the market cries for reduced service costs. In a bid for market leadership just months before the possible introduction of a third network operator, […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM: THE South African Broadcasting Corporation on Friday confirmed that it fired newly appointed broadcasting strategy CE Govin Reddy on Thursday following an angry meeting with the SABC board on Wednesday. Although there was an indication on Friday morning that Reddy is planning to take legal action against the SABC, spokesman Marj Murray on […]
Andrew Worsdale Grey Hofmeyr is a great guy, and honestly, I’m not sucking up (I had a cameo part in Suburban Bliss). Straight and to the point with an affable and very South African manner about him, he sits behind a large desk in Henley Studios at Auckland Park, with a monitor beside him. He […]
South African photographer David Goldblatt’s exhibition opens at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this month. Alex Dodd speaks to him about the structure of things now and then The thing that sticks in my mind about that first conversation with photographer David Goldblatt is his insistence on the absence of a colon. […]
Sherilee Bridge and Ferial Haffajee The stronger gold price is no guarantee the haemorrhaging of jobs in the mining industry will cease, although trade unions are likely to use it as a bargaining tool. The National Union of Mineworkers said this week it will begin to negotiate the recall of thousands of retrenched workers and […]
Kirby DJ Klatzow: RIGHT TO REPLY I read with some dismay the article, “Helderberg:The search for invisible blame”, by Robert Kirby (June 26 to July 2). The article, despite its length, carries a very small intellectual component, it is factually incorrect and, unfortunately, displays the prejudices of the author rather spectacularly. It is sad to […]
Mungo Soggot Minister of Minerals and Energy Penuell Maduna has hit back after his embarrassing concession that the auditor general was not party to the theft of R170-million worth of oil by releasing documents to help explain his attack on the finance watchdog. Maduna’s office handed out the documents at the inquiry into the Strategic […]
Tangeni Amupadhi Tension is simmering in Thabazimbi in the Northern Province over allegations that a policeman accused of failing to protect a state witness has remained on the force. It has also emerged that police authorities ignored a directive, issued a year ago by the province’s Department of Safety and Security, to act against Detective […]
in Carletonville Andr was in matric in a small Afrikaans mining town when he began taking the hormone tablets that would ultimately transform him into Tula – but only more than 20 years later. Charl Blignaut traces one woman’s story of emancipation ‘Every day of my life I threaten to leave Carletonville,” sighs Tula from […]
As I read Xolela Mangcu’s heartfelt ode (Crossfire, June 5 to 11) to the need for national values, I see the jets roaring over the Union Buildings, leaving behind in their thundering blur a rainbow of colours. Presidents, ministers and generals stand stony-faced, with hand on heart, framed by the deafening adulation of people waving […]