Gavin Du Venage Johannesburg’s R6,5-billion budget passed earlier this week held few shocks for rate payers. However, business has been hit with an increase that could be as high as 30 percent, most of which will go to fund a huge deficit as a result of unpaid township debts. The first unitary budget to be […]
Has-beens tbey may be, but FRED DE VRIES found it hard to remain cynical talking to John Lodge of The Moody WAY back in 1967, a five-piece band from Birmingham recorded that song, the song which would, in time, become as famous, as loved and as loathed as Stairway to Heaven or Hey Jude. Just […]
The life insurance industry’s policy of excluding HIV=20 carriers from assurance is short-sighted and=20 irrational, argues Ryan Goodman PAUL Truyens’ response to Cheryl Carolus’ criticism of=20 the life insurance industry’s policy on HIV and Aids,=20 (M&G June 15 to 22), cannot go unanswered. Truyens’ argument that the life assurance industry is=20 justified in excluding people […]
Justin Pearce and Jonathan Ancer Nico van Burick, acting editor of TV1’s Agenda, has=20 resigned with effect from next week — but seems likely=20 to stay on at the SABC for a further month. His resignation comes five months after the revelation=20 that he had been a commanding officer in the citizen=20 force propaganda unit […]
Now, following our dirty tricks revelations last week,=20 we begin the search for the wonderful, mystical line=20 that separates what former president FW de Klerk knew=20 from what he didn’t know. Judging by his seven-page=20 statement this week, he has a simple answer: everything=20 legal he knew about and will take responsibility for;=20 and everything […]
The Housewares Group has startled the investment community with its exceptional results, reports Jacques STORES-LISTED Housewares Group’s latest financial results took the investment community by complete surprise last week. While recent market focus lay in institutional and stockbrokers’ attempts at resurrecting investor interest in the 10-cent-a-share, debt-ridden W&A, little attention was directed at this company’s […]
The World Bank’s aid for the world’s poorest countries is under attack. Reg Rumney reports The International Development Association (IDA), the arm of the World Bank which provides almost free loans to the poorest countries in the world, could be in trouble. The IDA provides concessional loans — typically 40 years repayment, no interest, and […]
Gaye Davis THIS WEEK’S lightning-fast passage of a Bill allowing=20 for traditional leaders to be paid by central=20 government strikes at the heart of the Inkatha Freedom=20 Party’s political control over KwaZulu/Natal chiefs. The Remuneration of Traditional Leaders Bill was=20 whisked through the Senate and the National Assembly in=20 two days this week, with the […]
Dr Hillary Southall Reaction to the Health Plan put forward by Dr Jonathan=20 Broomberg and Dr Olive Shisana to restructure the=20 National Health System for universal primary health=20 care has been cautious and somewhat non-committal.=20 Editorials such as those in last week’s Mail Guardian, for instance, have not done justice to this=20 ambitious, bold and […]
A little-known struggle for independence continues in=20 West Africa — and South Africa has strange links to=20 it. Ann Eveleth reports the presidential inauguration of Nelson Mandela on May=20 10 last year was heralded as the end of colonialism for=20 a beleaguered continent, but nobody seemed to notice=20 that one distinguished guest was celebrating a […]