James Hall Nothing much disturbs the placid facade of Swaziland, but the murderous escapades of David Mahlanga (45) have shaken assumptions about the kingdom. Mahlanga, who may be responsible for at least 34 deaths, has triggered anxiety because of what his crimes represent a realisation that Swazis can no longer presume they are safe. “Women […]
Bruce Whitfield Metcash shareholders have taken an unusual step of rejecting the company’s efforts to lower the price on staff share options. Sixty-eight per cent of shareholders voted in favour of a special resolution that would have effectively meant the cost of the options would have been lowered from 550c to 130c. But the resolution […]
Neal Collins soccer ‘Everything is corrupt.” “It’s like a web of prostitution.” “We have become too commercially orientated.” No, those aren’t the world views of the May 1 anarchists before tearing up the town this week. Just a very frank assessment of Brazilian football, issued by former captain Socrates. A shock 1-1 draw with Peru […]
Peter Robinson cricket Normal service having been resumed by Shaun Pollock’s South Africans in the Caribbean, this might be as good a point as any to consider the vexed question of rotation. By way of explanation, rotation is the selection policy employed by Manchester United football club and the Australian one-day cricket team. As a […]
Marianne Merten A former leader of People against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad), Nadthmie Edries, has been arrested for the second time in almost five years on charges related to the August 1996 lynching of Hard Livings gang boss Rashaad Staggie. Sedition charges against Edries, who was ousted as Pagad security chief in an internal leadership […]
Alec Hogg Boardroom talk One of my favourite authors, historian Paul Johnson, summed up his best-selling History of the Modern World (1917 to 1980) with a view that during this period: “The power of the State to do evil expanded with awesome speed. Its power to do good grew slowly and ambiguously.” For the most […]
Khadija Magardie Body Language Allow me to admit it I’m all for a bit of role playing where members of the opposite sex are concerned. Not a tte–tte that may involve riding crops, or Superman capes, more along the lines of my liberated woman sensibilities giving way to a genteelness of helpless abandon; especially when […]
Bruce Whitfield Marinus Daling has sold off a third tranche of Sanlam shares in six months, taking to almost R4-million the amount of money he’s raised via share options since November last year. This time the Sanlam chair sold 143 087 shares at R9,38, netting R1,34-million. On November 8 last year he sold 61000 shares […]
Marianne Merten South African companies are exploring a new approach to corporate social responsibility through employee-centred initiatives such as matching staff donations to charities made via the payroll. Much of the pressure to move away from a straight “cheque book approach” has come in the wake of increasing global corpworks. Over the past 15 years […]
Julia Beffon CD OFTHEWEEK When Rod Stewart made Atlantic Crossing in the mid-Seventies he left Britain and the Small Faces behind and the music critics, too. Hollywood turned Rod the Mod into more than a tax exile. He became a musical outcast, wasting his gravelly, soulful voice on disco drivel that reached its nadir with […]