Accusations of Transnet’s lack of control over its security services are contained in some explosive reports. Ann Eveleth investigates TRANSPORT parastatal Transnet is sitting on an explosive report into weak controls over private security companies it contracted, estimated to have cost the taxpayer R100- million. The Mail & Guardian has established that the long-running irregularities […]

Peta Thornycroft RADIO station SAfm’s embattled manager Charlene Smith has been told by SABC radio head Govin Reddy to resign on grounds of ill health. Reddy told Smith on February 13 that he would pay her to the end of the month if she resigned “gracefully but immediately”. Smith, hired by SAfm only five months […]

cuts Jim Day and Tangeni Amupadhi WHEN Wits University Vice-Chancellor Robert Charlton waggled a placard on Jan Smuts Avenue this week, he could count among his allies students who have spent much of this week disrupting campuses across the country. Charlton, a staunch opponent of such misbehaviour, struck the unlikely alliance to protest the belt-tightening […]

THEATRE: Andrew Wilson IN Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, currently on at the Market Theatre, the main character cries “Use your head! You’re on earth! There’s no cure for that!” No cure for language either, because as relentlessly as Beckett sought to strip life down to its most minimal, sub-atomic essence, he challenged the rigid parameters and […]

The Post Office takes extreme measures to counter AK-47 thieves, reports Marion Edmunds THE Post Office is to establish an internal investigations unit, staffed by former spies, to combat the rampant fraud and theft plaguing its operations. The organisation said this week that the new unit – Security Investigation Services – would work undercover to […]

A murky new Bill of Rights There could be confusion in common law as the new Bill of Rights is not entirely clear on the relationships that exist between private persons THE coming into operation of the new Constitution on February 4 1997 has heralded a return of the dreaded “horizontality debate”. Horizontality became entrenched […]

Jane Rosenthal AL DIE WINDRIGTINGS VAN MY WERELD by Rachelle Greeff (Queillerie, R49,99) EK STAMEL EK STERWE by Eben Venter (Queillerie, R49,99) FOR a glimpse of where we are at in the Nineties in the new South Africa, one could do worse than turn to novelists. Two new post-liberation novels, which are already selling well, […]

With the biggest empowerment deal out of the way, Mzi Khumalo is looking forward to making JCI the premium African mining house, he tells Max Gebhardt After four months of speculation and high expectations, majority ownership of JCI has been finally transferred to the African Mining Group (AMG). But for Capital Alliance chairman and head […]

staff Rehana Rossouw IN an attempt to build a case against two outspoken soldiers in his command, a colonel in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) made use of a classified Military Intelligence (MI) document, a court-martial in the Western Cape has revealed. Staff Sergeant Herman Pheiffer and Corporal Dawid Booysen, both based at […]

Marion Edmunds MEMBERS of the Reconstruction and Development Portfolio Committee say their committee should be resurrected by Parliament to monitor the work of ministers, provincial MEC’s and local government councillors. The committee was created to oversee the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP). The RDP offices were closed nearly a year ago and its programmes parceled […]