A tortuous series of irrelevant preambles is being played before getting down to the real nitty-gritty of the World Cup CRICKET: Vic Marks THE match between England and South Africa should have been a crucial, spine-tingling affair, but such is the ludricrous format of this World Cup that it is little more than a form […]

Justin Pearce SOMEWHERE in the suburbs of Pretoria, religious prejudices have collided with a roadsign. Last year, the directorate of roads erected signs on the N1 Eastern Bypass indicating a recommended speed limit for night driving. The signs show a crescent moon and a star together with the recommended speed. Then suddenly, towards the end […]

Sipo Mzimela, the Minister of Correctional Services and IFP national deputy chairman, in The Mark Gevisser Profile IF KwaZulu-Natal premier Frank Mdlalose is the bluff country doctor of Zulu ethnicist politics, then the Reverend Sipo Mzimela is its fire- breathing priest. He looks like the archetypal avuncular Anglican cleric, right down to his ecumenical sideburns […]

Last week’s article by Louise Flanagan on Military Intelligence attempts to recruit future Minister of Defence Joe Modise in the early 1990s has provoked a furious row. Here, Deputy Defence Minister Ronnie Kasrils responds — as does the reporter HAVING distinguished itself as a bastion of the free press, and for many years under siege […]

A substantial damages claim against the Thor company in South African will be heard in a British court, writes Eddie Koch ENGLISH lawyer Richard Meeran arrived in South Africa this week to prepare a multi-million-rand lawsuit in the British courts against Thor Chemicals for damages suffered by 20 workers, exposed to high levels of mercury […]

Gaye Davis CONDOMS should be distributed to prisoners and those with HIV or Aids should no longer be segregated, a special work group investigating health care in South African jails has recommended. The Department of Correctional Services has always ruled out condoms for inmates on the grounds that this would encourage sodomy, which is illegal […]

Karen Harverson South Africa’s corporate standards are being polluted by corruption, and the toll on the country is far higher than the mere monetary value. For example, corruption in Nigeria was initially accepted as a way of “getting the job done” — and so the cost of corruption was less than its monetary value because […]

It was a first: an advertisement flighted simultaneously on all four channels. And it cost millions. Hazel Friedman watched the advert which brought mysticism to the concrete industry Strange, inexplicable sightings have been known to take place on the SABC from time-to- time. But nothing could rival the image onslaught that hit viewers during prime-time […]

Recipients of generous ‘golden handshakes’ continue to occupy management positions at Pact, reports HAZEL FRIEDMAN ACCUSATIONS of golden handshakes and secret slush funds are being hurled at Pact’s upper echelons following the recent discovery of a mysterious “employer’s fund” set up years ago by Pact management. A substantial percentage of the fund, which in total […]

Karen Harverson Corporate fraud is on the increase and it’s costing companies millions of rands each year. In many cases, companies are reluctant to bring a criminal case against the perpetrator — frequently an employee. “Companies are scared to bring criminal charges for a number of reasons, be it their reputation, lack of knowledge of […]