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 […]
democracy Yusuf Hassan LAST Sunday’s Sierra Leone coup d’etat shocked the world. But any serious observer of Sierra Leone would have seen it coming. For years the people of Sierra Leone have been saddled with a plundering elite and maladroit regime, which left what was once a thriving nation in ruins. Five years ago, the […]
Marion Edmunds THE government is to be urged to set up a special inquiry into district surgeons and health professionals who betrayed their ethical codes in complicity with apartheid authorities. The call will be made at health hearings at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission next month and will come from among the 30 organisations making […]
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 […]
This year will be `difficult and challenging’ for the SABC, says its head, Zwelakhe Sisulu. In the light of the current turmoil there, this looks like a considerable understatement Ferial Haffajee THE South African Broadcasting Corporation is to demand nearly R1,8-billion from the government – and will threaten to pull the plug on special coverage […]
A task force reports that immigrants to South Africa need not be bad news, reports Marion Edmunds THE Green Paper on immigration recommends scrapping the country’s current system and dealing with skilled immigrants as national assets. The proposals, handed to Minister of Home Affairs Mangosuthu Buthelezi last week, call for his department officials to be […]