OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 10.00am. SHAREHOLDERS in Nando’s, the fast food chain, voted overwhelmingly in favour of a controversial merger between Nando’s Group Holdings and its loss recording offshore operations, controlled by Nando’s chairperson Robbie Brozin. Critics including some Nando’s shareholders said that the deal was designed to salvage Brozin’s interests and protect them […]
Nechama Brodie A Toyota manager has been dismissed for allegedly e-mailing a caricature of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to his colleagues. The cartoon, which features Mugabe’s face pasted on to the body of a gorilla, with the words, “We want the farms to grow more bananas,” was thought to contribute to racial tensions in the […]
Sean Cohen is urging the diamond industry to clean up its act, but has himself had dubious Angolan dealings David Le Page A leading South African figure in the international campaign to ban conflict diamonds himself smuggled diamonds out of Angola as recently as three years ago. At the time the source of such diamonds […]
Victoria Brittain ME AGAINST MY BROTHER: AT WAR IN SOMALIA, SUDAN, AND RWANDA by Scott Peterson (Routledge) ACROSS THE RED RIVER: RWANDA, BURUNDI AND THE HEART OF DARKNESS by Christian Jennings (Orion) T he United Nations’s recent humiliation in Sierra Leone was a disaster almost as inevitable as the UN experience in Somalia a decade […]
Duncan Mackay ATHLETICS Though officials must fear having to act as peacemakers to Maurice Greene and Michael Johnson in the United States Olympic squad for Sydney, at least they should not have any problems from their runners for the women’s 800m, where for the first time in history one family will fill all three places. […]
Barry Streek A Caledon church’s decision to gamble with the odds and invest in a new casino has paid off, with the church’s empowerment trust having just bagged its first substantial pay-out of R1-million. And when the Caledon Casino, Hotel and Spa opens its doors on October 1, the Overberg Community Trust will receive 10% […]
researchers Nono Simelela CROSSFIRE Because the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV is an issue involving the protection of innocent unborn/newborn infants, debates on the matter can be clouded by emotion and sensationalism. This is illustrated by Howard Barrell’s article “R800m to let Aids babies die” (July 21 to 27). It raises a number of […]
Ivor Powell The media blackout on Judge Willem Heath’s special investigations unit came about as a result of pressures from Judge Heath’s own staff – a staff afraid of losing jobs as the government squeezed ever harder on the maverick unit. Sources close to the unit said this week a virtual palace coup has been […]
With South African property about the cheapest in the world, perhaps now is the time to stop being a tenant and think of becoming an owner Ian Fife Property insiders who say that it’s time to start investing in residential property are supported by a recent world survey by Knight Frank that shows South African […]
Andy Colquhoun in Parramatta RUGBY Reporting on the Springboks occasionally puts one in mind of what it may have been like tramping in the wake of Caesar’s army as it marched into Germania each summer to campaign against the Visigoths (the author and proprietors of the Mail & Guardian in no way vouch for the […]