Roshila Pillay The budget for the North West provincial Department of Transport, Roads and Public Works has been trimmed to such an extent that hospitals cannot do basic maintenance work. More than R6-million has been budgeted for professional and special services in Mmabatho, where the provincial government is based. In comparison, only R652 000 and […]
Belinda Anderson Mediswitch began in the Usko stable, now Bytes Technology, and although its founders were excited about the prospects of the business, it never broke even under the old management. But having moved aggressively, it now more than dominates its space, and recently teamed up with one of its big competitors PQ Africa’s QEDI. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ntuthuko Maphumulo soccer Bafana Bafana and The Democratic Republic of Congo have both already qualified for the African Cup of Nations finals in Mali next year and the match between the sides at King’s Park in Durban on Sunday afternoon is being billed as a “celebration”. But the home team will be playing for more […]
THE Nigerian government privatisation agency on Wednesday confirmed reports it had found a 42,5-billion naira ($370-million) hole in the pension funds of the state-run telecoms firm Nitel. “Nitel pension (fund) is … presently underfunded thus leaving 2,5-billion naira instead of 45-billion naira,” the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) said in a statement. However the reason […]
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. […]