body Mail & Guardian reporter SEVERAL senior military men, including former Civilian Co-operation Bureau (CCB) operatives, will receive subpoenas in the next three weeks ordering them to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. While most former policemen implicated in “dirty tricks” operations are busy preparing submissions in pursuit of indemnity from prosecution, few members […]

The investigation into playboy Paul Ekon’s alleged gold scam deepens. He is also said to have offered the ANC `tiny little guns’, reports Stefaans Brmmer NEW details have emerged of gold syndicate suspect Paul Ekon’s association with African National Congress leaders – including his alleged loan of a handgun to Thabo Mbeki – but ANC […]

Graham Hopwood in Windhoek THE Namibian government’s failure to release the whole of a report on official corruption has underlined concerns that the authorities here are unwilling to tackle graft within their own ranks. Prime Minister Hage Geingob tabled the final part of the report of the Frank Commission probe into governnment irregularities in Parliament […]

Newcomer Facts & Fiction is taking on the industry giant with a formal application to the Competition Board over claims of unfair practices, writes Max Gebhardt THE on-going row between book giant CNA Gallo and the newcomer to the industry, Facts & Fiction, is set to flare up again, with the news that Facts & […]

Judith Edstrom I WOULD like to address some of the perceptions and misconceptions about the World Bank in South Africa that have surfaced recently, at times with a degree of emotional fervour. First, what is the World Bank and what are we doing in South Africa? The World Bank is a co-operative bank owned by […]

Andy Duffy Transnet has uncovered fraud and theft thought to have been costing subsidiary South African Airways’s (SAA) duty-free operation at least R5-million a year – more than 10% of the operation’s annual sales. The group’s internal audit team paid Johannesburg-based private investigators R470 000 to undertake the six-month investigation into the operation. Its report […]

THE paradox facing the World Food Summit in Rome this week is no less grim for being very familiar. At an aggregate level, the world still has enough to eat. But individual people do not eat around an aggregate table. Many dine in comfort. Others continue to get by. And a large minority (800-million) struggle […]

Stefaans Brmmer LEAKED details from an unpublished United Nations report confirm the role of Willem ”Ters” Ehlers – former president PW Botha’s last private secretary – in the arms build- up in war-racked Central Africa. The recently completed third report of the UN commission investigating embargo-busting arms sales to Rwanda’s defeated Hutu forces contains an […]

Ann Eveleth PUBLIC Protector Selby Baqwa confirmed this week that he is investigating allegations – uncovered during a probe into the beleaguered University of Zululand’s fake degree scandal – against a senior academic at the institution. Associate professor of history, Jabulani Maphalala, is the vice-dean of the arts faculty and a member of the University […]

FINE ART: Chris Roper THE Absolut Secret exhibition at the Association for Visual Arts in Cape Town is about using the Absolut advertising gimmick to raise money for charity: the proceeds will be used to promote needy and deserving artists. It’s commerce putting the absolution into Absolut, if you will. It’s not only about that, […]