The African National Congress and the ANC Youth League have taken it upon themselves to attack the Mail & Guardian over its coverage of the recent cabinet re-shuffle, in particular the apparent differences between President Nelson Mandela and Pallo Jordan which led to the dismissal of the former minister of posts, telecommunications and broadcasting. To […]
Olympic bid Cape Town’s Olympic Bid Company has closed the doors to public participation in the process of winning the Games for the city, critics told Rehana Rossouw CAPE TOWN’S Olympic Bid Company is a farce which pays lip service to transparency and accountability to the public, but is structured to exclude them from real […]
Mail & Guardian reporter The independence of the South African Broadcasting Corporation will be in the balance in the next few weeks as the political haggling over the appointment of a new board of directors gets under way. According to the Parliamentary Porfolio Committee on Communications,105 nominations have been received for positions on the board. […]
The need for electrification may outweigh the environmental factors, but there is a trade- off between economics and the social costs. Madeleine Wackernagel reports South Africa pays a high price for its cheap electricity, according to a new report published by the Industrial Strategy Project, a Cosatu-linked think-tank. Clive van Horen of the Energy and […]
Baby Jake Matlala has shown once before that he can take care of Paul Weir, but on Saturday night he’ll also have to deal with a referee of dubious reputation BOXING: Gavin Evans BABY JAKE MATLALA has made a good living in recent years by beating up the best little men Britain can provide, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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’ […]