Rowan Callaghan Directors at South African Breweries (SAB) and Rainbow Chicken Limited this year lead the pack in awarding themselves increases, a survey of 26 companies by Business Mail shows. A study of the annual reports of the companies — all in the top 150 and all with financial years ending in February and March […]
Competition Board chairman Pierre Brooks speaks to Reg Rumney about the changing shape of competition law Competition Board chairman Pierre Brooks is thoughtful and circumspect, as befits a man with a legal background — some would say to a fault, especially those who would have liked a more aggressive competition policy. Yet if Brooks feels […]
Marion Edmunds A special National Intelligence briefing to the Cabinet on how to deal with sensitive and potentially embarrassing information and prevent leaks has been leaked to the Mail & Guardian. Concern about security leaks and sabotage of government plans prompted National Intelligence to brief Cabinet on how to safeguard sensitive information. A document on […]
Rehana Rossouw MALAYSIA’S Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir Bin Mohamad, acknowledged Malaysian roots in South Africa when he and a powerful business delegation swept into the country on a four-day visit this week. “The people of Malay descent in Cape Town are of some interest to us — it is good to re-establish the linkages broken […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift IT IS not surprising that the focus of attention in this weekend’s Currie Cup matches will be on a man in the chasing pack rather than on the first-half leaders his team face in kicking off the second half of the The country has been through the agonies of a lead-in to […]
It would be nice to be able to congratulate Tito Mboweni on having produced the first truly plain- language bill of the new dispensation. The new draft of the Labour Relations Bill has been re-written, not just so as to incorporate the deals struck by labour, business and government in the National Economic, Development & […]
The African National Congress has produced a discussion document on minerals and energy policy which proposes that legal rights are given to informal miners, like Zamzam Shongwe. This form of mining is seen as fundamental to the developing other related enterprises in the surrounding areas. A Small Mines Bureau would be established and its role […]
Eddie Koch It took the Pondo sangoma, Mercy Manci, exactly 40 minutes after walking through a thicket of thorn trees at the entrance of the Klipriviersberg nature reserve south of Johannesburg to locate a plant called ugobo whose root bulbs are used by members of her profession to treat sexually transmitted diseases and to collect […]
While politicians argue about political solutions to the KwaZulu-Natal conflict, violence monitors say only the justice system can end the violence, reports Ann Political violence has left at least 5 000 people destitute in KwaZulu-Natal over the past four months — and those are the survivors. More than 1 200 have been killed in the […]
Marion Edmunds The Department of Foreign Affairs is to adapt its definition of the ”family” to suit the new South Africa. Before 1994, diplomats living in overseas missions received certain allowances for their ”dependents” or children. Now Foreign Affairs wants to change the definition of ”dependents” to make it possible to include members of the […]