The sale of Anglo’s Johnnic stake has finally come off, with a considerable discount to boot, report Madeleine Wackernagel and Tebello Radebe The National Empowerment Consortium (NEC) has pulled off a considerable coup — control of Johnnic for a minimum amount of cash, at a 12% discount to the market price. While the NEC’s starting […]
A century after HG Wells’s War of the Worlds, ERIC KORN asks what happened to sci-fi vision? HOW the aliens must have hated it, being told for so long that they were a political neurosis. Perhaps it was embarrassment about it that has made them so reclusive. Imagine how we will feel, when we land, […]
Journos don’t deserve a pedestal Our legal columnist takes a swipe at those — including this newspaper — outraged at the Section 205 notices served on journalists The responses to the notices served in terms of Section 205 of the Criminal Procedure Act on journalists and newspaper editors last week were predictable: the journalists let […]
Max Gebhardt Senior management at First National Bank (FNB) are worried about the future of lucrative provincial government banking accounts because its managing director Barry Swart is widely perceived as guilty of nepotism at worst and foolishness at best. Senior management fears were compounded by calls this week from the South African Commercial, Catering and […]
Mail & Guardian Reporter SERVING judges who dotted South Africa’s law books with inane judgments in the name of apartheid might not be out of the woods as far as the truth commission is concerned. Desmond Tutu’s spokesman said this week that although the commission does not have a hit list of apartheid judges, he […]
Rehana Rossouw Shocking information about children in prisons in the Western and Northern Cape emerged this week. Julia Sloth-Nielsen of the Community Law Centre at the University of the Western Cape visited Kimberley Prison and found most of the children there were not being held for serious crimes. In terms of the law, they should […]
Anthony Egan Portraits of Power: Profiles in a Changing South Africa by Mark Gevisser (David Philip, R59,99) Readers of the Mail & Guardian will need no introduction to Mark Gevisser’s profiles of South Africa’s powerful, famous and infamous. Regular readers of his column may, in fact, wonder whether they deserve a re-reading . The short […]
crime wave to fight crime with corruption A policeman is shot while allegedly robbing Eastgate … the head of a car- theft unit is caught in a stolen car … Angella Johnson investigates rife police corruption EVIDENCE is mounting that corrupt police officers are at the heart of the country’s escalating crime-wave, with worrying signs […]
KAREN DAVIES finds out what Yvonne Chaka Chaka has been up to between starting a limo-hire service and receiving a songstress of Africa award in Zaire SHE was chosen above Madonna to launch Pepsi in Nigeria. Flowers were strewn on the road from Entebbe Airport to Kampala in Uganda for her visit there and she […]
of cocaine INSPECTOR Jacques Swanepoel is not an exception within a police force widely perceived to be teeming with rogue cops. Swanepoel (33) has been charged with murder, assault, possession of cocaine and defeating the ends of justice. He was granted R1 000 bail. A member of the hard-pressed South African Narcotic Bureau (Sanab), it […]