FRIDAY, 8.00AM HOUSING director general Billy Cobbett, who has arrived at work each day this week, will finally know his fate today, after mediation between himself, housing minister Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele and public service officials. In a debate on the Cobbett affair in parliament yesterday, Mthembi-Mahanyele evaded demands from the Democratic Party’s Douglas Gibson that she […]
A prominent member of the National Parks Board has been implicated in `canned’ lion hunting, reports Ellen Bartlett THE game reserves named in the controversial television documentary on “canned” lion hunting in South Africa are not the only places where professional hunters are willing to bend the rules to help an inexperienced – or inept […]
FRIDAY, 8.30AM LATEST Central Statistics Service figures from the first quarter of 1997 show that a 34,1% slump in agriculture was the main cause of a drop in gross domestic product by an annualised 0,8% from the previous quarter The weaker than expected result has caused economists to predict that a Reserve Bank cut in […]
THE freedom of the press depends on the number of newspaper titles available to the public rather than nonsensical claims to objectivity by a few newspaper groups trading in monopolistic conditions. We are therefore extremely concerned by the manner in which the closure of the New Nation has been passed off with little comment and […]
first place? The new SABC’s first mistake may have been to hire Jill Chisholm, argues a former colleague of hers, Vivien Morgan DID she jump or was she made to walk the plank? According to SABC television chief executive Jill Chisholm it was a mutually agreed parting of the ways. Her exit brings forth a […]
rapist appears Stuart Hess TWO thousand Katlehong people marched on the Germiston Magistrate’s Court this week when the man accused of raping a seven- year-old girl made his appearnance. Dan Mabote is charged with raping Mamokgethi Malebana and two other children, all from the Mosiliki section in Katlehong. Mamokgethi, a sub-B pupil, disappeared on March […]
Madeleine Wackernagel highlights some of the issues raised at the World Economic Forum AT the February meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, President Nelson Mandela made an impassioned plea for a renewed fight against Aids. His address made world headlines, but back home the “new struggle” has been sidelined by the Sarafina […]
SHAUN DE WAAL speaks to Graham Swift, who won the 1996 Booker Prize, and is visiting South Africa THE latest “international” (that is, not South African) author to visit the country is Graham Swift, winner of the 1996 Booker Prize for his novel Last Orders, published by Picador. He follows other recent guests who have […]
FRIDAY, 11.30AM ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe has set a two-week deadline to a group of what he calls “former Rhodesians” to return to Zimbabwe to start negotiations on the future of former Union Carbide Mining subsidiary Zimasco or face seizure of the mine. “If they don’t come here by that given time then the government […]
IN one sense the collapse of New Age Beverages (NAB) is an everyday tale from the world of business – a story of straightforward mismanagement. The company expanded too fast, too soon, making fundamental strategic mistakes along the way, the biggest in distribution. Losses mounted, market share shrank and the shareholders baulked at throwing good […]