NP leader FW de Klerk is expected to take a firm stand=20 to quell the dissension within his party. But it’s a=20 fine line he has to tread, reports Gaye Davis NATIONAL Party (NP) leader FW de Klerk is expected to=20 douse the firestorm raging in his riven party by=20 backing his beleagured senior cabinet […]
Business is seriously starting to turn its collective=20 mind to combating crime. Reg Rumney reports There is little disagreement that combating crime is=20 the top priority in South Africa today. Barely a day=20 goes by without one business leader or another=20 identifying crime as the greatest retardant of=20 investment and barrier to prosperity. South African […]
Indian economic involvement in South=20 Africa has mushroomed. Reg Rumney reports The purchase by Indian brewery United Breweries=20 Investments (UB) of a 30 percent stake in National=20 Sorghum Breweries — reportedly for R70-million — is=20 the most visible sign of the growing economic co- operation between South Africa and India. UB had previously bought Mabula […]
Wits deputy vice-chancellor Professor MW Makgoba, in The Mark Gevisser Profile
Gaye Davis IN terms of workload and resources, South Africa’s=20 members of Parliament have to be among the most over- stretched and under-funded in the world. Management consultants hired by National Assembly=20 Speaker Frene Ginwala and Senate President Kobie=20 Coetsee, to recommend ways of re-organising support=20 services for Parliament, will be consulting MPs,=20 management staff […]
The labour ministry has brokered a compromise=20 on the stalled Labour Relations Bill,=20 report Eddie Koch and Marion Edmonds LABOUR Minister Tito Mboweni is set to break the=20 deadlock over the new Labour Relations Bill with a set=20 of compromises that have won broad support from=20 organised labour and also industry on flashpoint issues=20 which […]
Marion Edmunds POLITICAL parties have launched a massive manhunt for=20 50 000 politicians. Their talent scouts are trawling=20 townships, suburbs and villages this month to find=20 ideal candidates for the local government elections.=20 All the major political parties have started screening=20 potential candidates and all want the best of local=20 talent for themselves. The exact […]
The fiery bluster of right-wing farmers has given way=20 to a more pragmatic approach over the new labour=20 tenants’ Bill, reports Eddie Koch EDDIE von Maltitz swaggered around with a 9mm=20 parabellum strapped to his waist. The vierkleur,=20 pennant of the ultra-right, was flying at the entrance.=20 And murmurs of malcontent rumbled through the ranks […]
Jacques Magliolo DESPITE growing local and international competition in=20 the electronics market, Johannesburg Stock Exchange- listed Log-Tek produced enviable results for its=20 financial year to end-April 1995.=20 Earnings per share climbed by a spectacular 138 percent=20 to 57,5 cents a share and a dividend of 17 cents (1994:=20 eight cents) was declared. This is a […]
FINE ART: Ivor Powell AS a child, I used to play a detective game without any=20 real rules. All you had to do was wander around in the=20 veld examining scraps of paper, .rusted tins, the=20 occasional used condom, crumpled cigarette packets,=20 leaking batteries … all of which became clues to a=20 fictional crime. The […]