There is little to cheer a United States president on a visit to Latin America these days. Where it once enforced its will on the region, the US now looks increasingly out of touch. The presidents of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile were not elected as friends of the US, and China has quietly filled the economic gap left by seven years of US distraction and neglect.
S’bu Mngadi, the newly appointed CEO of the South African Football Association’s commercial wing, says one of his friends went down on his knees and prayed for him on hearing he had accepted the job. Another offered to take up life assurance for him. If you did not know about the shenanigans that seem to follow the local game, you would think Mngadi’s friends were being a bit theatrical.
The well-worn adage that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks has returned to bite social grant applicants in KwaZulu-Natal — and sparked a public spat between provincial Social Welfare Minister Meshack Radebe and the South African Social Services Agency.
John Moodey, the newly elected DA leader in Gauteng, is a former unionist and ANC member who joined the Democratic Party in 1998 because he felt coloured people were alienated in the ANC. He spoke the Mail & Guardian‘s Mbuyisi Mgibisa abouthis political principles.
Corporate social nvestment (CSI) has evolved significantly from its humble beginnings in South Africa in the mid-1970s. It is no longer seen as a voluntary activity but has become a business imperative. BEE legislation, the industry transformation charters and the global emphasis on sustainability together result in a more strategic, professional and achievement-based approach to CSI than in the past.
When last did you hear a good-news story coming out of Darfur? For that matter, have you ever heard a good-news story from there? Well, I’ve got one. In the South Darfur city of Nyala, there is a small group of Sudanese men and women who risks life and limb each day to deliver humanitarian information over the radio to the millions of displaced persons in the region.
Ronnie Kasrils, the Minister of Intelligence, requested an opinion from the South African Human Rights Commission as to whether statements that he had made amounted to hate speech as defined in the Constitution. His comments were characterised as hate speech by Helen Suzman and by the South African Jewish Report.
"There is no right or wrong way," the trail master tells his nine fellow bushwalkers as they trace a little-known passage through the Philippines’ Sierra Madre range. "But whining is not allowed." The city slickers enter a different world in the sleepy village of Daraitan just 50km east of Manila. Here there are no roads, no bridges, no electricity, no telephones, and no 24-hour convenience stores.
Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer died in hospital on March 18 after being found unconscious in his hotel room, the team announced. Woolmer (58), a former England Test batsman and coach of South Africa, had seen his team crash out of the World Cup on March 17 after a shock group-D defeat by Ireland at Sabina Park.
The Johannesburg Metropolitan Bus Service Company has offered a R50 000 reward for information that will help track down those responsible for the killings of and attacks on bus drivers, said its chairperson, Vincent Mntambo, on Sunday.