Tight security and prosecution blunders marked the first few days of the high-profile trial Marianne Merten Four years and nine months after Hard Livings gang boss Rashaad Staggie was shot and set alight during a People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) march, five prominent current and ex-Pagad members are standing trial for his murder and […]
Glenda Daniels Two top skills development executives with a sector education training authority (Seta) have been suspended on allegations of financial irregularities and personal enrichment. Dr Haroon Aziz, CEO of the Forestry Industries Education Training Authority (Fieta), and Daniel Malindi, head of finance at Fieta, were suspended three weeks ago. They are being investigated by […]
Tim Wood American Notes The air around corporate South Africa has been blue with indignation since Business Report’s Ann Crotty muckraked Nedcor’s annual report to turn up a dubious share option scheme. The ire is understandable, but suggestions that this sort of gratuitous executive self-enrichment wouldn’t happen in the United States or United Kingdom are […]
Yvette Gresl Needlework has become a significant form of economic empowerment for rural women in Southern Africa. Initiatives in Zimbabwe and South Africa have created opportunities for women to learn skills such as appliqu, embroidery and beadwork. Although needlework is increasingly recognised as an emerging art form, it is specifically targeted at the tourist market. […]
Three East Rand communities claim that members of the local SANDF unit are taking the law into their own hands. Sechaba ka’Nkosi reports Members of a South African National Defence Force (SANDF) unit based in the East Rand at the height of political violence since the early 1990s have been implicated in a reign of […]
Byron Kennedy in London Industry leaders generally don’t like to rock the boat in public at least. That statement rings even more true when it’s a rather close-knit community like the one that gathered in London this week to take in the 17th annual Johnson Matthey platinum review. More than 250 delegates managed to squeeze […]
Barbara Ludman THE GIRL IN THE PICTURE by Denise Chong (Simon &Schuster) There are arguably half a dozen iconic images from the Vietnam war an American soldier flicking a Zippo to set fire to the thatched roof of a Vietnamese peasant’s hut, a South Vietnamese general shooting a Viet Cong fighter in the middle of […]
Neal Collins Jamie Bloem, the 30-year-old who captained South Africa at last year’s Rugby League World Cup in England, faces allegations of racial abuse after an incident with a black player in a reserve match. The Halifax Blue Sox utililty player he is a capable kicker used in the back row and as an outside […]
China’s record on human rights is unlikely to affect its chances of getting the 2008 Summer Olympics John Gittings ‘Of course we want the Olympics bid to succeed,” exclaims a Beijing resident. “That way we will get a clean environment and a city worth living in.” The prospect of China hosting its first global sporting […]
Mail & Guardian Reporter Banks and other financial institutions have no excuse to refuse loans to people in the low-income category, if survey results released by the National Housing Finance Corporation (NHFC) are anything to go by. The survey, conducted in five provinces, targeted people in the R1 000 to R6 000 monthly income group. […]