Thebe Mabanga The government is set to introduce a new strategy for black economic empowerment next month, which will extend the principle of empowerment charters to new industries and may lead to the disappearance or merger of state financing agencies like Khula. However, the government will not act on a call by the Black Empowerment […]

Gregory Mthembu-Salter Reports have emerged since South African energy giant Engen sold Engen Petroleum Rwanda in December that it was forced to abandon its operations in Rwanda following death threats against its senior management. Engen sold the company, which it had acquired from BP Fina in 1998, for an undisclosed amount to a Rwandan company, […]

Thabo Mohlala The Gauteng Traditional and Faith Medical Practitioners’ organisation has launched a literacy programme in an effort to improve the negative public image of inyangas. The programme was officially launched recently with the graduation of 16 traditional healers. It aims to equip inyangas with reading and writing skills to help them in the fight […]

There’s been a five-fold rise in the number of infections in five years Kevin Scott Genital herpes is rocketing in South Africa with the number of infections quintupling over the last five years. Nearly 30% of South Africans have at least one sexually transmitted infection (STI), and half of those so afflicted are thought to […]

Bongani Majola Government delivery of electricity connections fell last year compared to the year before, according to the National Electricity Regulator. Formal employment also fell slightly and the level of formal housing provision looks stagnant. However, land reform improved marginally and major strides were made in water provision. Last week the Mail & Guardian assessed […]

Kenneth Lay was the king of Houston. Then his much-hyped empire began to unravel, launching a scandal that threatens to engulf the White House, Wall Street and even Westminster. James Meek on how Enron fooled the world Angelina Lario lives in Katy, an amorphous suburb about 48km west of downtown Houston. The house is vaguely […]

Johannesburg | Thursday A THREE-day-old baby boy, found abandoned in the men’s toilet of the maintenance section of a Johannesburg court on Tuesday, has been taken in by the Cotlands Baby Sanctuary after he was turned down by two hospitals and police. Sanctuary representative Jackie Schoeman said on Wednesday the baby was brought to Cotlands […]

CHARMAINE PRETORIUS, Durban | Thursday SURVIVORS of Tuesday’s KwaZulu-Natal train crash in which 26 people died said they had been talking about a ”ghost train” on the railway line moments before the crash. Most passengers on the train, which was travelling from KwaDukuza (formerly Stanger) to Durban, were school children on their way home. The […]