Liquidators of the controversial Port Elizabeth-based Usaphu Trust investment scheme have started serving a fresh batch of summonses in a desperate bid to retrieve some of the more than R100-million they believe was invested in a pyramid scheme in South Africa.
The 11th congress of the South African Communist Party this week set about drawing up parameters of permissible conduct for party members serving in the ANC-led government. The guidelines are intended to clarify boundaries of behaviour for communists deployed in society.
The Ministry of Health has not officially informed the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria that its grant allocated to KwaZulu-Natal is welcome and accepted, thereby further delaying the province’s receipt of the grant. The fund does not acknowledge press releases as confirmation.
NGOs can be sustained by mobilising funds from their communities, thereby reducing dependence on donor and foundation grants — if the Ashoka Citizen Base Initiative (CBI) is anything to go by. Ashoka presented five South African organisations with R250 000 in prize money.
In what would be a setback for national leaders, the Free State African National Congress looks set to elect former United Democratic Front (UDF) activist Ace Magashule as its provincial chief. Magashule has twice been "redeployed" because of protracted divisions in the Free State party.
Four Limpopo women have literally plucked the opportunity to make money from trees. The group near Tzaneen has set up a small factory and can barely keep pace with the demand for their jams and fresh fruit juices. They already supply local hotels as well as school feeding schemes.
"I’m in the group, Miss, because I don’t want to hurt other people in the same way that adults hurt me. I don’t want to do it, but every time I think of them doing it to me I must do it to someone else", says a 15-year-old patient of Child Abuse Therapeutic and Training Services.
Enron, Worldcom, Xerox, Merck: capitalism is finally catching up with itself. Whether this is true is probably part of a larger ideological question. What is certain is that standards of corporate governance are on the decline throughout the world, not only in the United States.
Olive oil was called "liquid gold" by Greek author Homer. And not without good reason. It has influenced, inspired, nourished, healed and helped maintain the power of some of the most potent empires of the ancient world.
The cash-strapped South African National Civics Organisation (Sanco) and its investment arm, Sanco Investment Holdings (SIH), have become the stage for a bizarre series of corruption allegations and counterclaims of political manoeuvring.