The corporate gravy train: South African company directors regard their remuneration as nobody’s business but their own South African companies are lagging behind international standards of boardroom transparency, reports Stefaans BrUmmer SOUTH African business, still steeped in the secrecy of apartheid isolation, is lagging behind international trends of boardroom transparency — including disclosure of directors’ […]
Philippa Garson and Jacquie Golding-Duffy THE South African Police Union (Sapu) has called for the resignation of controversial South African Police Services communications director Craig Kotze who was recently given a permanent job in the force. Sapu secretary general Peter-Don Brandt said Kotze was “running a union-bashing” exercise and had acted in bad faith by […]
Eddie Koch No one can say the tacticians of the truth commission did not expect a battle. Only it came with surprising speed and ferocity from an unexpected quarter. For months, commissioners have been warily watching the movements of what has become known as the sleeping dragon, agents of apartheid’s death squads, for signs it […]
Ricardo Dunn THE Mail & Guardian approached 19 of South Africa’s top public companies for information about executive salaries. Of the 19, none was prepared to reveal individual packages. Some companies, like Anglo American and Rembrandt, gave aggregate figures for the board as a whole — which is a requirement of company law anyway. Most […]
The social costs involved in losing skilled immigrants has led to complaints about the ineptitude of home Affairs officials, reports Marion Edmunds Department of trade and industry officials revealed this week they had to intervene to ensure skilled foreigners are not prevented access to the South African job market by inept members of the Department […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift THERE has to be a realignment when this inaugural round of rugby’s new Super 12 competition is over. The programme — even for sides from the southern hemisphere’s top three countries — is just too tough. Certainly, the inconsistencies — some old, some newly raised — need to be evaluated before any […]
The new Constitution will scrap the Senate and replace it with a National Council of Provinces, with hotlines to all nine regional governments, reports Marion Edmunds The Senate is due to be replaced by a National Council of Provinces (NCOP) with permanent and floating members — including the premiers of the nine regions who will […]
Desmond Tutu, chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in The Mark Gevisser Profile WONDERFUL! Wonderful! Wonderful! Ever since I spent time with Desmond Tutu a few weeks ago, I have caught myself, repeatedly, doing The Arch whenever something has pleased me. Head thrown back, arms extended upwards in an angelic “V”, spasms of praise […]
Where’s the best place to market beer and soft drinks? How about a funeral? Jacquie Golding- Duffy reports on new marketing strategies Funerals, believe it or not, are marketing opportunities that cannot be missed. At least, that’s the view of some beverage companies. Sales representatives and some distributors claim that sympathising with family and friends […]
Minnette Vari scratches beneath the skin of identity, representation and reality in her multi-media artworks. She spoke to HAZEL FRIEDMAN THERE’S an ancient myth concerning the origins of the looking glass, that when Eve saw her reflection in the water, like Narcissus, she fell in love with it. Since then, woman’s identity has been predicated […]