Glenda Daniels and David Macfarlane New employer incentives are now available to companies that participate in the government’s massive programme to combat the country’s crisis of unemployment and skills shortage especially among the youth. While all companies contribute to the national skills development levy, regulations published in the Government Gazette this month allow employers to […]

After the dot.com crash, the finger pointing started, reports Edward Hellmore How the mighty have fallen. Little more than a year ago Jeff Bezos was flying high. The price of Amazon.com shares was in the stratosphere and the company’s beaming 38-year-old CEO was being lionised as Time magazine’s Man of the Year. Supported by the […]

Anthony Holiday Hear the vengeful racist talk among whites in rural pubs after there has been a farm burning or a farm killing. Sense the envious anger among the black dispossessed in squatter camps from the Boland to our northern borders and beyond. In short, taste the lethal potion of racism and land-loss and you […]

Paul Kirk Things fell apart for Durban’s director of community and health services this month. First his promotion to the post he has few qualifications for was deemed unreasonable, then he had his law degree revoked. University of Zululand officials have established that Arnold Shange did not earn his BJuris degree, but was one of […]

Barry Streek About 7,5-million people in South Africa still have to be provided with adequate housing despite more than five million people being given shelter in the past six years. Since 1994 about 1,129-million houses have been built, and secured tenure, running water, sanitation and electricity provided. Minister of Housing Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele says the provision […]

Thebe Mabanga music Thebe Mabanga The illuminated, garish dcor of the Horror Caf will witness a peculiar vibe when four musicians and a hip-hop DJ take to its stage in the Politburo sessions this Friday. “We are not trying to create a band,” says S’Bu Nxumalo of the Nuff Said Kollective (Nsako), organisers of the […]

Industrialist Natie Kirsh has lost millions on a fraudulent second-hand insurance policy operation. Now he’s gunning for his business partner, writes Belinda Anderson Nathan (Natie) Kirsh is suing his long-time confidant and business partner, Charles Stride, for millions. This follows the mother of all bust-ups after a business venture involving the sale of second-hand endowment […]

Adrienne Carlisle and Nawaal Deane Hoosein Mohamed, a senior partner in a prominent Cape Town law firm, was arrested by the Scorpions on Wednesday for milking the Road Accident Fund (RAF) of large portions of the pay-outs meant for indigent victims. His law firm, H Mohamed and Associates, first hit headlines in 1999 when the […]

African mould broken as Western firms are to be put in the dock on bribery charges Chris McGreal Multinational companies are about to go on trial in Lesotho where they are accused of paying huge bribes to a local official, a case virtually unprecedented in Africa. European and Canadian engineering companies, four of them British, […]

Glenda Daniels Two Northern Province rural communities are up in arms against mining giant Amplats and the Royal Bafokeng Administration. The Ga-Pila are embroiled in a fight with Amplats over impending forced removals while the Bafokeng are engaged in mass action against the royal administration of King Leruo Molotlegi over retrenchments. The Ga-Pila community has […]