Evidence wa ka Ngobeni and Peter Dickson The Eastern Cape MEC for Health, Monwabisi Goqwana, has been quietly running a private ambulance services company linked to a string of hospitals in the province. Goqwana, who was appointed after the 1999 general elections, is a director of the company Pobedi Ambulance Services, which provides services to […]

Glenda Daniels A SECOND LOOK I spent last weekend agonising about whether to vote in the local government elections. As a black South African, how can one not vote after so many people have made sacrifices, suffered enormous hardship and even died to make a democratic South Africa possible? From this point of view the […]

Thebe Mabanga investigates the pros and cons of immigration I am at the Il Pavignione, on the 10th floor of the Michelangelo hotel at Johannesburg’s property hotbed, Sandton. Excuse me for stating the obvious, but this place drips with opulence. Not just the credit-fuelled kind found a few floors below us at the Sandton City […]

Gavin Foster paralympics An agreement signed during the 2000 Paralympics now drawing to a close in Sydney might finally bring about what most people mistakenly think already exists – the unification of the Olympic Games and the Paralympics. Just 16 athletes, most of them crippled World War II veterans, competed in the first disabled games […]

Riaan Wolmarans ‘Do it your way” reads the ad that the Pride committee has published this year, and as ever, the 11th annual Pride activities will see gay and lesbian people from all over the country doing it their way -be it drag, leather, dancing or simply joining a float in the Pride march. Unlike […]

SA chemical and explosives group AECI said this week it was closer to concluding the disposal of four business units in a R300m deal to Chemical Services Ltd (Chemserve). The four AECI businesses are Industrial Urethanes, Kynochem, AECI Aroma/Fine Chemicals and AECI coatings. They supply specialised chemical products or services to their respective markets. ”For […]

THE aviation wing of South African arms manufacturer Denel has delivered the first locally built tail section of the Hawk lead-in fighter trainer plane to Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF). Denel said it was also on schedule to deliver the second Hawk tail before the end of November 2000, which would be fitted to one […]

BRENDAN BOYLE, Johannesburg | Thursday PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki said this week that the fight against inflation should not be pursued to the extent that the economy was driven into recession. Asked at a news conference whether the pursuit of economic growth or the fight against inflation was more important, Mbeki said growth and inflation were […]

PRESIDENTIAL spokesman Parks Mankahlana has died after a long illness at his parent’s home in the Eastern Cape, the African National Congress has announced. Mankahlana, a former president of the ANC’s Youth League, served as President Nelson Mandela’s media spokesman for his entire term between 1994 and 1999. He worked with Mbeki until earlier this […]