As the Mpumalanga housing scandal escalated this week a picture emerged of a profitable schemefor its developers. Justin Arenstein, Stefaans Brmmer and Mungo Soggot report MPUMALANGA’s controversial rural housing scheme hands the developer a profit mark-up that exceeds the gains typical of low-cost housing deals. A consultant to Motheo Construction – the company set up […]
Physicists claim to have invented a meltdown-free nuclear reactor that burns radioactive waste, writes Robin McKie in Geneva SCIENTISTS have designed a nuclear reactor that they say can “burn” atomic waste. The breakthrough could solve the world’s nuclear waste crisis and save the beleaguered atomic energy industry. Experiments carried out for two years at Cern, […]
jobless’ man Anthony Kunda ZAMBIA’S President Frederick Chiluba may be a national of the newly named Democratic Republic of Congo, and as such ineligible to hold his position. Samples of Chiluba’s hair were secretly obtained and sent to laboratories in Johannesburg and London for DNA testing, according to The Post, the country’s only independent daily […]
GOOD NEWS FUEL prices will drop in South Africa on midnight on June 4; petrol will drop five cents inland and six cents at the coast, diesel will rise one cent in Gauteng, and paraffin will fall almost three cents. FREE STATE PROBES THE Free State provincial government appointed two commissions of inquiry on Friday, […]
Slower economic growth and a shift in consumer borrowing patterns point the way to a cut in interest rates in the second half of the year, reports Madeleine Wackernagel FIRST-QUARTER gross domestic product (GDP) figures, released this week, confirmed the anecdotal evidence provided by retail sales: growth is slowing down. This should soon feed through […]
FRIDAY, 9.00AM: THREE big matches have been scheduled for veteran South African heavyweight boxers over the next few weeks. Former WBA champion Gerrie Coetzee hits the comeback trail when he faces ex-WBC middleweight champion Iran “Oh No” Barkley in California on June 8. Johnnie Du Plooy will fight Benjamin Manyube in Durban on June 15. […]
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 […]
Nigel Crawhall EDDIE KOCH’S article last week on the demise of South African San languages (“Last voice of an ancient tongue”) has broken the silence on a national disgrace. With financial assistance from Denmark, the Southern African San Institute (Sasi) is supporting Khoi and San communities to develop strategies for language survival. The road to […]
FRIDAY, 5.30PM THE Congress of SA Trade Unions announced on Friday it is to stage a 24-hour national strike on Monday in protest at the lack of progress in negotiations on sections of the new Basic Conditions of Employment Act in the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac). Cosatu representative Nowethu Mpati on Friday […]
Ferial Haffajee THE SABC’s head of radio, Govin Reddy, is set to be appointed as deputy chief executive of the corporation, making him second only to the chief executive, Zwelakhe Sisulu. The move is part of a wide-ranging management shake-up at the SABC which burst into the open this week with a spate of senior […]