The government should leave the media to get on with their job NO blows BARRED Sipho Seepe There is general agreement that in a democracy, especially in the context of transition, people should become agents of change. This participation lends legitimacy to both the processes of transformation and to government policies and practices. In this […]
Paul Kirk A senior Durban municipal officer allegedly used a fake driver’s licence to obtain an official luxury car, traffic officials confirmed this week. The acting chief executive of the south operating entity of the Durban Unicity Council, Sandile Thusi, is also alleged to have channelled hundreds of thousands of rands worth of council contracts […]
Neal Collins Philemon “Chippa” Masinga a man many feel could have gone on to be a force alongside compatriot Lucas Radebe at Leeds will return to English football this winter. But not at the top level. Masinga has left Bari, where he enjoyed a successful five seasons, for relegated Coventry City in the first division. […]
Marianne Merten It took five minutes for the auctioneer’s final gong to signal the change of owner of Kromvlei fruit farm near Elgin lock, stock and barrel for half its market value. No amount of cajoling could get the 60-strong crowd assembled on the steps of the white manor farmhouse to top the R11,75-million bid. […]
Suzan Chala The Johannesburg Maintenance Court is always crowded with women claiming child support from the fathers of their children. However, it would be incorrect to assume that the men sitting on the benches and crowding the narrow passages are all defendants. There is an increasing number of single men claiming maintenance from women. These […]
Glenda Daniels and David Macfarlane About 40 magistrates are implicated in a R37-million fraud probe involving luxury renovations to their offices and residences in the name of official repairs. The magistrates are under investigation following the arrest last week of two building contractors on charges of defrauding the departments of public works and justice of […]
Alan Henry on the struggle facing the sport’s famous old tracks to keep up to scratch The organisers of last month’s European Grand Prix have denied that their race’s place on the Formula One (F1) calendar is under threat from the projected introduction of a Moscow grand prix. The Nrburgring authorities, who announced significant modifications […]
Alan Henry About 10 minutes before the end of qualifying for the recent French Grand Prix, Ralf Schumacher received an informal, yet significant, endorsement of his growing status as a potential grand prix champion. Willi Weber, the sleekly dressed millionaire businessman from Stuttgart who has managed and masterminded the careers of both Schumacher brothers since […]
First he cheated death in a horrific crash. Then he lost his beloved airline. Now Niki Lauda is back in the sport which made him a legend. And, as Adam Sweeting reports, he’s not just along for the ride Part of the allure of Formula One (F1) motor racing is the way its history has […]
Bruce Whitfield Omega Holdings, majority shareholder China’s Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation (SIIC), is offering minorities 8c a share and is planning to delist the ailing company, which it says will be out of business by September unless it gets the approval it needs for the takeover. Omega, which listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in […]