School feeding schemes in the Eastern Cape have collapsed due to fraud and mismanagement, report Pat Sidley and Rod Amner President Nelson Mandela’s flagship presidential project, the school feeding scheme, has ground to a halt in the Eastern Cape. Fraud and incompetence has consumed the province’s R114-million budget for the year in just four months. […]
Pat Sidley IT’S not all bleak on the school-feeding front. Western Cape experts have piloted several projects they hope will nourish children, involve communities and assist the families of schoolchildren in nutrition education. The type of meal the province has settled for consists of a mealie-meal porridge with a sandwich and a soya- based flavoured […]
Eddie Koch Farmers in the Potchefstroom district fear vast tracts of arable land in the North-West have been damaged by radioactive waste and contaminated ground water from neighbouring gold mines. The Council for Nuclear Safety (CNS) last month completed a R5-million clean-up operation aimed at removing tons of used pipes and machinery that had been […]
Health care expert Paul Gross warns that Minister Nkosazana Zuma’s health insurance policy is fatally HEALTH Minister Nkosazana Zuma’s national health insurance system should have reassured those who expected draconian solutions to problems of access and financing in health care. But it remains flawed. I have looked at her committee of inquiry’s report, and judged […]
Lawyers accuse KwaZulu/Natal Attorney General Tim McNally of wilfully avoiding uncovering the truth behind hit squad activities, reports Ann Eveleth A former security branch policeman eager to open his bag of dirty tricks is likely to go to jail on weapons charges instead; a policeman roams free three months after an inquest implicated him as […]
Openness in government has led to the rise of a new group of parliamentary lobbyists, reports Marion The new South Africa has given birth to a new breed of opportunists. They lurk in the corridors of power with files under their arms, monitor the parliamentary timetable, sit diligently through long committee meetings, and take every […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift THE game of rugby as we know it is dead. It matters not a whit in the greater scheme of things whether the Rupert Murdoch-Louis Luyt combination or the Kerry Packer circus finally gets the upper hand. The very fact that they are prepared to throw millions of dollars at the game […]
Karen Harverson Gold mines serviced by Anglo must be rightsized if they are to survive, said chairman of Anglo American Corporation’s Gold and Uranium division Clem Sunter at the announcement of the quarterly results last week. Rightsizing may involve reductions in the scale of operations at shafts, shaft closures, or both. It is only effected […]
Ethiopian Haile Gebresilasie is challenging the Kenyan domination of middle-distance events ATHLETICS: Julian Drew WHILE in South Africa this year middle-distance track running has been through something of a renaissance, thanks largely to the exploits of Shadrack Hoff and Hendrik Ramaala, in Europe the middle-distance world records have been taking a substantial battering. First to […]
Mapula Sibanda AN enraged husband gunned down his wife and her lover=20 in Sebokeng last Friday — and ignited a wave of=20 violence that left 15 people dead. The explosive mayhem laid bare the mounting tensions=20 over control of Sebokeng’s five hostels among various=20 Xhosa clans and Basothos. “I knew the man who died from […]