The SABC’s expansion into rural bureaux has provoked a mixed response from radio stations, writes Jacquie Golding-Duffy SABC radio news is planning to expand its operation by establishing eight rural bureaux at an initial start-up cost of about R3,2-million. SABC radio news managing editor Alwyn Kloppers says increasing the number of newsrooms in rural areas […]
Gaye Davis THE media are in danger of becoming unwelcome guests in Parliament. Speaker Dr Frene Ginwala has ordered an inquiry into the justification for the R1-million paid out by taxpayers each year to accommodate journalists in its precincts. Attempts by the Mail & Guardian to get a copy of the report on the investigation, […]
Despite top-level intervention, Amplats sees little hope of an end to the illegal strike, report adeleine Wackernagel and Jacquie Golding-Duffy Production at Rustenburg Platinum Mines has ground to a halt as the last shift of 7 000 workers went on strike this week. With 21 000 workers already dismissed, the mass sacking sets a record […]
Vietnam, with its frequent changes in policy and bureaucratic rule, has left investors confused and wary. Nicholas Cumming-Bruce reports from Hanoi An 18-storey hotel, soaring above a jumble of low- rise Hanoi houses and construction sites, is a landmark to the rapid changes rattling this once- sleepy capital of faded colonial villas and lakes. Foreign […]
Philippa Garson OVERSEAS donors are still investing in higher education, despite fears that the escalation of violent protest and crime on campuses would scare them off. The executive director of the Tertiary Education Fund of South Africa, Roy Jackson, said he would be “very surprised” if the campus turmoil “didn’t cause a great deal of […]
A huge explosion which injured 70 people in July 1987 and was blamed on `ANC terrorists’ was almost certainly the work of the police. Rehana Rossouw reports A bomb which former state president PW Botha described in July 1987 as a “callous act committed by terrorists under the godless control of criminals” was almost certainly […]
Jean Baptiste Kayigamba in Kigali United States nationals need to watch their backs – — not just in Saudi Arabia, where a truck bomb killed 19 Americans and wounded about 80 more at a US air base last week. They are also under threat in East and Central Africa, according to a communique issued in […]
Mark Tran in New York Billionaires from the tiger economies of the Far East are gaining on Bill Gates, chairman of software giant Microsoft, and Warren Buffett, America’s super investor, as the world’s richest individuals. While Gates and Buffett are still lording it for the second year running in Forbes magazine’s 10th annual ranking of […]
A seasoned politician remarked this week that “there is no message like the one delivered by the electorate”. For some of the thousands of candidates who contested last week’s local government polls in the Durban Metro, that message must be a bitter pill to swallow. Poor Kathuravaloo Vallaraman, who contested the sparsely-populated Hawaan Nature Reserve […]
BAFANA KHUMALO showcases three rising stars who will be taking the stage at the Standard Bank National Arts Festival this week IF a time capsule labelled “The new royalty in South African theatre” was launched into space at the opening of this year’s Grahamstown festival, included in it would be at least three names: Sello […]