A drama is unfolding at Argus Newspapers, where a top business consultant has been brought in to streamline the corporation. Drew Forrest reports A TOP Australian business consultant is at the centre of a convulsion in Argus Newspapers that has already brought job cuts at the Pretoria News, the axing of the group marketing team […]

Eric Naki Karl Zimbiri, an Azanian People’s Liberation Army fighter often cited as responsible for terror attacks in news reports, claims he is being defamed. Or, at least, someone claiming to be him claims this is the case. Apparently there’s an imposter out there making the real Zimbiri out to be a bad guy. The […]

The listing of publishing group Naspers forespells the growth of a major publishing group, writes Jacques Magliolo KEEN interest shown by banks and major insurance companies in the shares of newspaper and magazine publisher Nasionale Pers Limited during its listing this week came as a complete surprise to numerous industrial analysts. It signalled to the […]

SOCCER: Clinton Asary WITH both last year’s finalists — eventual winners Witbank Aces and runners-up Kaizer Chiefs — knocked out in the first round, and with five second division sides still in the tournament, this year’s Bob Save Superbowl is still wide open. Down to the last 16, the action kicks off tonight when Wits […]

Myra Alperson reports on the formation of a new grant- making group A NEW acronym has recently entered the local business vocabulary: Saga, the Southern Africa Grantmakers Association. If you think this doesn’t quite sound like a business activity, it’s in part because Saga represents what many in corporate South Africa still won’t admit is […]

Justin Pearce A FORTNIGHT ago, Cape Town’s independent theatre types were striking poses of grim resignation and talking about the imminent closure of the Long Street Theatre. Now the expressions have changed — and the shows are going on. The independent venue, which was started earlier this year, recently faced closure owing to a lack […]

Smoking `ganja’ and growing dreads is our religious right, argue Rastafarians. Tell that to the constitutional court, say the prison authorities. Eddie Koch reports DO dreadlocks have rights? “Yo mon,” says Jupiter Jons of the Rastafari Unity Movement Alliance (Ruma). And two of the country’s leading experts on the new Bill of Rights agree. Jons’ […]

Eric Naki THE French car giant, Peugeot Motor Company, is considering opening an assembly plant in the Eastern Cape. The move — which would add another competitor to the club of South Africa’s already arguably overcrowded vehicle manufacturers — was confirmed by Eastern Cape MEC for Economic Affairs Smuts Ngonyama this last week. Ngonyama, who […]

THE royal battle between Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi and his rivals has grown bitter. Buthelezi last week pointed fingers at “latter-day busy-bodies” who were in the “forefront” of campaigns to “villify”him. He was referring to other players in the royal battle: Prince Clement. A former Iscor employee, he is now based inside the Royal Palace and […]

JOURNALISTS were barred for a second time this week from reporting on issues discussed in open parliamentary standing committees, despite the ANC’s repeated pledge to transparancy. Last week Labour Minister Tito Mboweni told journalists that his briefing to a standing committee was “off the record” and could not be reported. This week an ANC senator, […]