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 […]
Paul Kirk A report that sought to clear the University of Durban Westville’s (UDW) highly controversial vice-chancellor Mapule Ramashala during a vote of no confidence has been slammed as a “worthless whitewash using taxpayers’ money”. The report by Mandla Adonisi of Adonisi and Associates has set the scene for the worst confrontation the university has […]
Ntuthuko Maphumulo soccer The National Soccer League (NSL) met the June 6 deadline to submit its new rules and regu-lations on player transfers to bring them in line with the Constitution. But the new system does not satisfy the South African Football Players’ Union (Safpu). The new system came about after the Andre Coetzee judgement […]
Grant Shimmin in Wellington netball She’s the biggest thing to happen to netball in New Zealand in years. In fact, it wouldn’t be stretching a point to say that without Irene van Dyk, the Silver Ferns might not have scored their two recent momentous victories over archrivals Australia. The latest, a 55-40 trouncing of the […]
Ross Garland A Second Look Following his extradition from South Africa, Khalfan Khamis Mahomed was convicted on May 29 in New York for embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998. He may face the death penalty. Two South Africans, one in Botswana, another in Swaziland also face the possibility of hanging. The capital punishment […]
Ufrieda Ho The Nan Hua Temple in Bronkhorstspruit rises like a displaced pagoda in the middle of fields of sun-bleached highveld grass. For the new abbess of the Buddhist temple, these contrasts and contradictions are opportunities to fire up the great melting pot of modern culture. Venerable Man Ya (47), who joined the temple at […]
When Steve Gibson’s website was repeatedly attacked by a hacker, he discovered a secret society of cyber-anarchists. Stuart Millar reports In one corner, Steve Gibson, world-renowned computer security expert with his own research corporation, regular adviser to the United States federal authorities and former child genius. In the other, a 13-year-old amateur hacker with a […]