Teachers in the Western Cape are demanding proper protection from the gangsters disrupting their schools, reports Rehana Rossouw GANGSTERS prowl schools in the Cape Town suburbs of Belhar and Delft, shooting and stabbing pupils, disrupting classes and trashing the premises. At one school, teachers have downed chalk in protest against the authority’s reluctance to provide […]
Reg Rumney Blame it on the weather and industrial relations on the Preliminary figures show economic growth, as measured by the gross domestic product (GDP) — the total value of all goods and services, adjusted for seasonal factors — slowed to an annualised and real or adjusted-for-inflation 0,8 percent in the second quarter of this […]
Adam Bacher and Shaun Pollock have famous names to live up to but they are playing their own way in Sri Lanka CRICKET: Ahitisham Manerjee THERE is a popular myth amongst Westerners that Sri Lankans, and Asians in general for that matter, are all fanatical about cricket. For their part, Sri Lankans have a similar […]
Karen Harverson reports on the details of Sasol’s plan to enter the coal export market Sasol’s mining division this week released details of its R635-million plan to enter the coal export market through the expansion of capacity at its Twistdraai Colliery and its recent acquisition of a shareholding in the Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT). […]
South Africa is mediocre in the world corruption stakes. Reg Rumney reports on a corruption study that finds the country not so guilty South Africa ranks right in the middle of a 1995 corruption ranking of 41 countries. The Corruption Ranking is the result of a study done by Berlin-based Transparency International and the University […]
As most of what is said in parliament goes unreported in the daily media, M&G have offered MPs this slot to raise the issues that concern them. ANC MP Billy Nair kicks off with a call for business to play a greater part in social development. This is an edited version of a speech in […]
Karen Harverson Anglo Alpha may set up a cement factory in Namibia to protect its stake in the 200 000-ton Namibian cement market from Malaysia, which is also considering investing in a factory there. However, the Namibian factory is just one of three options Anglo Alpha is considering to expand its cement-producing capacity, says managing […]
A plan to mine for diamonds along the Limpopo River is causing the biggest environment controversy since St Lucia, writes Eddie Koch ON the banks of the Limpopo River between Messina and the Kruger National Park there lies a stretch of South Africa’s last wilderness — baobab thickets, tropical flood plains, riverine forests, a diversity […]
Your cheque’s in the post … Post Office chairman Donald Masson reassures Bronwen Jones service will definitely get better THE darkest hour before the dawn, is how South Africa’s Post Office chairman describes his own company. Donald Masson has apology down to a fine art. As customers swing the sword of righteous anger, he says […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift THE heart of the misguided and unbearable paternalism which has caused so much damage on so many fronts in this country beats strongly in the bosom of South African rugby. It threatens to rend the game asunder in this country. For nowhere else is arrogance of the “papa knows best” syndrome more […]