Belinda Anderson Nedcor’s strategic planning around technology must be applauded for its clever thinking and planning. The approach is a two-pronged one that cannot really be separated. On the one hand, there is its technology and operations (T&O) division, which is in the process of commercialising. And on the other, there is a collection of […]
Melvyn Minnaar On the vervedeficient, dull social calendar of the new South Africa that generates but a few memorable PR parties these days, the annual Nederburg auction in Paarl still seems to hold its own after 27 years. If you’re still looking for women in serious widebrimmed hats, this is?where you’ll find them. If you […]
Robert McBride Right to Reply Piers Pigou has provided us with a curious response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) decisions in respect of myself, Aboobaker Ismail and others. His lengthy article can be summarised in a sentence. Though there is no evidence to the contrary, Pigou, TRC expert and self-appointed Grand Master of […]
The new Mpumalanga legislature complex diverted funds from other departments, leading to a critical shortage of supplies Justin Arenstein Mpumalanga doctors are being forced to operate on critically injured patients by torchlight and without much of the medicine or other equipment they need. Even basics such as sterile gloves, swabs, and intravenous drips are unavailable […]
Adam Mazmanian English Passengers by Matthew Kneale (Penguin) The genocide of the Tasmanian Aborigines is so little remarked upon probably because it was so successful. Between the arrival of European settlers in 1804 and the end of a brief Aboriginal uprising in 1830, Tasmania’s native population was exterminated, with but a few sad exceptions. A […]
Justin Arenstein Mpumulanga agent provocateur James Nkambule who is the central informant to the police and African National Congress on the alleged plot to overthrow President Thabo Mbeki admits he has repeatedly betrayed those close to him to further his own political career. The charismatic African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) leader who has admitted […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Thursday MPUMALANGAS legislature has diverted funds from other departments to pay for its marble-floored R650m government complex, leading to doctors being forced to operate on critically injured patients by torchlight. The complex, built in defiance of national treasury advice that it was too extravagant for a rural province, is blamed for […]
THE Zimbabwe government has described as “uncorroborated” a report by an international panel of high-ranking lawyers who said that democracy and the rule of law in the country were “in the gravest peril.” In the report produced for the International Bar Association (IBA), the laywers said the government of President Robert Mugabe was deeply implicated […]
PRESSURE is mounting on Swazi authorities to disclose the nature of King Mswati IIIs protracted illness following unconfirmed media reports that he was poisoned. A religious leader accused the government of fuelling public despondency by hiding the facts surrounding the 33-year-old kings illness. “They must disregard the culture of secrecy because the king is the […]
AN Angolan army helicopter crashed at the weekend in central Angola, killing five of its 13 passengers, most of them military personnel, the Portuguese news agency Lusa said on Monday. A military official interviewed by the agency said the fate of the eight other passengers aboard the Russian-built helicopter that crashed on Saturday was unknown. […]