A lawyer’s letter has revealed how Umgeni Water tried to cover up its illegal activities Paul Kirk The Mail & Guardian has obtained documentary proof that a cash-strapped parastatal organisation, Umgeni Water, has illegally tapped the telephones of serving and past senior employees as well as members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ […]
Roshila Pillay Senior academic staff at Vista University are furious about the extravagance of one of the campus rectors, who commutes between Pretoria and Bloemfontein at a cost of about R1 700 a trip. Professor Talvin Schultz, the principal both of Vista’s Bloemfontein campus and the Thaba Nchu College of Education (which is now managed […]
Roshila Pillay The rector and vice-chancellor of Vaal Technikon, Aubrey Mokadi, has allegedly been abusing technikon funds. Senior technikon staff and students frustrated with Mokadi’s running of the institution are accusing the rector of victimisation, mismanagement and nepotism. This is not the first time the rector stands accused on these charges. In 1998 the Mail […]
Jane Martinson in New York Struggling dot.com enter- prises face a new competitor in the battle for online sales the United States government. Newly published research shows that the world’s largest online retailer is not a former bookseller but the administration itself, which sold $3,6-billion worth of goods last year. In contrast, Amazon previously regarded […]
The men in white were under scrutiny as Pakistan squared the series against England Peter Robinson If Pakistan are around, can a row be far behind? Not likely. Within hours of Pakistan’s 108-run victory in a remarkable Old Trafford Test on Monday, British television viewers were being treated to pictures of Waqar Younis allegedly scratching […]
Michael Vlismas golf In the same week that Tulsa’s new Miss Firecracker will be crowned, Tiger Woods will light the fuse that is expected to blaze a path through 72 holes of major golf on its way to another explosive impact on sporting history. The 101st United States Open at the Southern Hills Country Club […]
JOHANNESBURG | Friday WHITE males still dominate South African business, but the situation is slowly changing, according to a report published on Thursday. The report, by Deloitte and Touche Human Capital Corporation, says black women fill just six percent of business positions in South Africa, where blacks make up 78% of the population and whites […]
This is the make or break year for Cape Town baritone Fikile Mvinjelwa, writes Mathaha Mathaha A string of local and international awards, including the 2001 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Music, have put Fikile Mvinjelwa under the spotlight. Is he destined for better, bigger things or will he fade? After Love and Green […]
Ntuthuko Maphumulo soccer Four of Africa’s greatest soccer teams were hit by tragedy earlier this year when fans were killed in two crowd stampedes barely a month apart. At this year’s Vodacom Challenge the ancestors and spirits of those who died at the Ellis Park stampede and in Accra will finally be laid to rest. […]
If a political party is intent on posing as a paragon of virtue it would be wise to behave like one. The Democratic Alliance has been prone to postures of this kind. Yet, for the second time in the six months since it took power in the city of Cape Town, it has been found […]