The problem with Wits’s transparent process for choosing a new vice-chancellor is that there was no Plan B Mungo Soggot THE bombshell which Sam Nolutshungu dropped on the University of the Witwatersrand this week – that he would not take up the post of vice-chancellor – had as much to do with his nerve as […]

A clash between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates is always full of drama SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi IN Glasgow it’s Rangers and Celtic, in Liverpool Everton and Liverpool, in London Arsenal and Tottenham, in Milan AC and Inter, in Cairo Zamalek and Al-Ahly, and in South Africa Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates. There is nothing to […]

Charl Blignaut SOUTH AFRICAN music videos have once again emerged in competition as the cream of the crop in Africa. Six of the nine videos nominated for the R57 000 Best Music Video/Clip from Africa prize (Francophone countries excluded as they have their own award) at the highly influential annual Cannes Midem awards, hail from […]

Mungo Soggot DR MAKI Mandela, the state president’s daughter who led the affirmative action drive at the University of the Witwatersrand, has quietly quit the university for a top human resources post at parastatal Transnet. Wits and Transnet confirmed this week that Mandela had secured a post at Spoornet, the parastatal’s railway division. Transnet human […]

Marion Edmunds and Rehana Rossouw CABINET ministers are likely to come under fire from the African National Congress’s senior cadres this weekend over government failings in meeting its most ambitious election promise – a better life for all. It is difficult to divine how bitter the discussions at the lekgotla, which began on Thursday, will […]

Joshua Amupadhi Professor Sam Nolutshungu’s decision not to lead Wits into the next century caps a trying 14 months at one of South Africa’s pre-eminent seats of learning. October 1995: The Makgoba Affair. A group of senior academics accuses deputy vice- chancellor William Makgoba of mismanagement and of embellishing his curriculum vitae, sparking a row […]

Nozala head and new Johnnic board member Salukazi Dakile-Hlongwane talks to Madeleine Wackernagel about putting management skills into practice Adding value is a favourite expression of Salukazi Dakile-Hlongwane’s and one that she intends to put into practice as a member of the new Johnnic board. “It is not enough to be part of management – […]

The Angella Johnson Interview Soli Philander’s patience is wearing thin. It is 3pm and he has been on the phone virtually non-stop all day, asking anyone and everyone for advice on how to clear his “baby brother” Anwah (18) of charges connected to a vicious gang rape. The present target is some poor lackey in […]

Four years after the Zambian national side was wiped out in an air disaster, the players’ widows are living in hopeless poverty while the government refuses to reveal the cause of the crash. Tim Exton reports LAST weekend thousands of fans jammed their way into Independence Stadium, a decaying concrete bowl perched on a windswept […]

several instances in which executives get their way for no apparent reason other than their high status, with lesser status executives showing the same deference of young roosters making way for the cock-of- the-walk. One study reported that when managers of a company targeted for a takeover had lower status than outside directors of the […]