Marianne Merten The Cape Town unicity committee established to vet public submissions on renaming two of the city’s oldest streets has declined to deal with fraudulent petitions and barred the media from having access to the documents for now. The Mail & Guardian reported last week that many of the petitions purporting to support the […]
Roshila Pillay ‘The Ray Ban advert with the vampires,” drools Eloise Hendricks (19) when asked what her favourite advertisement is. A business communications student at Pretoria Technikon, Hendricks cannot afford the Ray Ban sunglasses. However, she says the Ray Ban advert has had a major impact on her choice of sunglasses. Many students agree that […]
Bottles of Le Vie de Luc mineral water sport the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund logo without permission Stefaans Brummer The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund has found itself in bed with a business linked to Mafia don Vito Palazzolo but the fund protests that it is an unwilling partner and says it has asked for an […]
Barry Streek, Glenda Daniels and David Macfarlane Coleman Andrews offered to resign eight months ago as CEO of South African Airways (SAA), because he was frustrated with government and Transnet interference in the running of the airline but he was persuaded to stay on for longer by former Transet managing director Saki Macozoma. The Mail […]
Khadija Magardie Poor salaries, lack of adequate training and increasing attacks on its members continue to plague the ranks of the South African Police Service (SAPS). These issues, with the threat posed by privatisation to workers in the public service, dominated the agenda of the fourth national congress of the country’s largest police union, the […]
PAUL KIRK, Durban | Friday After being placed under arrest by policemen, a suspect inexplicably decided to escape from lawful custody, ran away from his captors then tragically tripped over a brick and fell. He died while the concerned, conscientious policemen waited for an ambulance to arrive. Unfortunately three registers from the police station documenting […]
SOUTH Africa’s New Diamond Corp (NDC) on Tuesday appointed Alan Smith as the company’s chief executive officer with effect from July 1. Smith, a former executive at AngloGold Ltd, has been given the task of taking NDC public and making it the country’s largest listed diamond miner by 2004, the company said in a statement. […]
The idea of a youth parliament was first mooted by the ANCYL last year. This month it is to become a reality Evidence wa ka Ngobeni On June 26 seats often occupied by members of the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces will be filled by hundreds of South African youth leaders to […]
David Macfarlane Short of cash? Accuse a colleague of theft, and pocket R500 from your grateful employer. If you don’t like one of your work-mates, invent a theft charge, pocket the R500 bounty and get your colleague dismissed. These are some of the perks Rhodes University a haven and defender of liberal values makes available […]
Iraj Abedian The title of this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF), held last week in Durban, was “Acting on Realities, Confronting Perceptions”. Ostensibly, it was an attempt to confront and deal with the widely held view in South and Southern Africa that the rest of the world, and the Western world in particular, retains a […]