Stefaans Brmmer Irish funding agency representative Chris McInerney this week “returned from the dead” to say he stands by allegations of maladministration he made eight years ago against Gauteng Premier Mathole Motshekga. Motshekga’s past as director of a non- governmental organisation, the National Institute for Public Interest Law and Research (Nipilar), is among matters under […]

Neve Gordon in Indiana We had just left the headquarters of Arthur Andersen, a consulting and accounting firm that employs more than 50 000 people, as I said to my friend: “The proof is in the cubicle.” In 1996, short of space, Arthur Andersen had relocated to a nicer building in downtown Chicago. Many of […]

Bongani Siqoko Rugby may have appeared to unite the country when South Africa won the World Cup, but soccer could be the catalyst for real integration of blacks into financial markets. Soccer team Kaizer Chiefs is expected shortly to announce plans to list on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Representative Louis “Sprinter” Tshakoane said discussions […]

images Henri Cartier-Bresson’s quick eye has made him the photographer of the century, writes Liz Jobey The slender figure loping between the shadows of the trees in the Tuileries Gardens is moving so rapidly – despite the stick – that he passes through them almost invisibly, just one more vertical black line flickering among the […]

Bongani Siqoko When Makhaya Ntini led the South African national cricket team on to the pitch in New Zealand recently, black South Africans were filled with pride. People who could hardly tell the difference between a goalpost and a wicket were glued to their television sets to witness the lad from KwaMdingi near King William’s […]

Madeleine Wackernagel Taking Stock Funny how mere mention of the arms industry has the power to stop a conversation. It’s a classic case of guns versus butter (Economics One), and the divisions run deep. Should we be selling weapons at all? And who decides which country qualifies and on what criteria? So it was with […]

Belinda Beresford Banks want to train you to use virtual cash – electronic payments and cards – rather than banknotes and cheques. The carrots waved under customers’ noses include greater security and theoretical ease of use. The sticks include higher charges for those who insist on using the more traditional ways of paying. Cash-based transactions […]

Diplomatic relations have all but broken down. In Washington earlier this month, Tony Blair’s most senior advisers ratcheted up the pressure. All-out war cannot be far away. For the British government has the enemy clear in its sights: it is the BBC. Labour fired off two heat-seeking missiles within 72 hours, as the prime minister’s […]

Ann Eveleth Fresh legal action has been launched by 20 South African workers against chemical giant Thor. The workers are claiming unspecified damages from the corporation’s United Kingdom parent company, Thor Chemical Holdings Ltd, for ailments arising from chronic mercury poisoning allegedly sustained during their employment at Thor’s Cato Ridge mercury-processing plant in KwaZulu-Natal. Lephila […]

But health inspectors remain watchful, writes Wonder Hlongwa Durban health authorities are concerned about traditional healers’ hospitals which are springing up in the city and may not conform to health regulations. At the corner of Brand and Moore roads in Durban is a two-storey building belonging to Judas Milazi, a traditional healer who operates a […]