Mining company JCI is moving into Africa in a big way, reports Karen Harverson Unbundled mining company JCI Limited is vigorously expanding throughout Africa in the search for mineral Business development general manager Peter McKenna says most of JCI’s projects in Africa are still in the early development stages, but if successful, he expects gold […]

Trevor Steele Taylor A FILM by the master of the “transcendental style”, Yasujiro Ozu, is one of the principal attractions of the Japanese Film Festival, at Johannesburg’s Rosebank Equinox Flower (1958), Ozu’s first colour film, is an examination of the stringent codes of morality that exist in Japanese society. A corporate businessman finds himself torn […]

Justin Pearce Two scions of CCV-TV’s marketing department and one South African Broadcasting Corporation old-guarder are to head the SABC’s revised three-channel television line-up, which will take effect in February next year. Molefe Mokgatle will head Channel 1, Taninga Msimango will become acting head of Channel 2, and Louis Raubenheimer is to head Channel 3. […]

DNA forensics is used widely in South Africa, but a recent supreme court case in Cape Town exposed serious flaws in its application, reports Rehana Rossouw There are probably millions of people throughout the world who by now have heard of “the bloody glove” and its alleged proof of American sports superstar OJ Simpson’s involvement […]

Marion Edmunds CONSULTANTS Eugene Nyati and Ntsoaki Mohapi have made the Mpumalanga government look stupid — not only by doing its work faster and better, but also by showing up the provincial government’s carelessness with taxpayers’ money. This week, as the Nyati scandal in Mpumalanga came to a head, the auditor-general’s office decided to release […]

More than 100 rhino horns which were to be used to trap smugglers have gone missing, reports Ann Eveleth MORE than 100 rhino horns purchased by a controversial group of British special forces officers from the Natal Parks Board in the late 1980s, supposedly for a “sting” operation to trap smugglers, have gone missing and […]

Paul Stober Game reserves in remote areas under the control of the KwaZulu Department of Nature Conservation (KDNC) are being used to train members of the Inkatha Freedom Party’s self-protection units (SPUs), according to a report by the Network of Independent Monitors (NIM). The Durban-based violence monitoring organisation has alleged the Port Durnford forest reserve […]

Kwazulu-Natal attorney-general Tim McNally responds to criticism that he failed to prosecute senior IFP members for alleged hit squad activities THE full page report in the Mail & Guardian (August 4 to 10) attacking my integrity is a patchwork of falsehoods which did me great harm. It seems to me that the report has since […]

Neil Bierbaum Independent Newspapers (formerly Argus) is struggling with its attempts to move from the afternoon to the morning market. And in an attempt to boost Business Report, the company is to introduce the four-page international weekly edition of the Wall Street Journal on Mondays. Independent Newspaper’s own survey of Business Report, conducted in the […]

Louise Flanagan THE South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has admitted destroying weapons used in the Umtata raid two years ago, in what the victim’s families have called an attempt to conceal vital evidence. Five youths aged 12 to 17, died when troops of the old South African Defence Force (SADF) attacked the Umtata home […]