Vista University is an animal with seven bodies and no head. The resignation of the university’s entire top management structure — rector, vice-rector and two registrars — in August last year has left the seven- campus institution floundering with no proper Executive functions have been taken over by a special committee of the university council. […]
Jacques Magliolo Barlows’ latest financial results highlight the benefits of a major conglomerate unbundling its assets and turning a lumbering giant into a lean and streamlined organisation. Last week the group released its interim results and showed profitability unsurpassed in the last decade. With improvements coming from almost all its operations, the refocused Barlows has […]
Alfred Nzo’s ministry stands accused of not having made the leap into the new South Africa, reports Rehana Rossouw Minister Alfred Nzo and his Department of Foreign Affairs came in for a barrage of criticism this week from the ANC alliance and academics who charged that it had failed to provide the moral leadership the […]
SINN Fein president Gerry Adams jets into South Africa next week on a high-profile visit that includes talks with President Nelson Mandela. His trip will bolster the Irish republicans in their talks with the British government over a political deal in Northern Ireland. Adams will also meet Consitutional Affairs Minister Roelf Meyer and head of […]
South Africa comes packaged to please at La Villette music festival. HAZEL FRIEDMAN reports from Paris LA VILLETTE is one of those curious cultural monuments that straddle the multiple personalities of Paris. Established during the mid-1980s, it has served as a sort of secular cathedral, injecting a modern multi- cultural spirit into a drab, immigrant […]
Olive Shisana, special adviser to the minister of health, in The Mark Gevisser Profile When Olive Shisana was appointed special adviser to the minister of health exactly a year ago, she found herself dreaming the same recurrent nightmare that had dogged her through her first five years of exile: “I am locked up in the […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift SADLY, the enduring memories of the opening phase of World Cup Rugby ’95 will be of a savage confrontation and a tragic accident. The pile up during the Cote d’Ivoire-Tonga tie which led to Max Brito being so badly injured will leave an indelible scar on the tournament. The sight of the […]
Jacques Magliolo reports on proposed changes to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange listings criteria Shareholders are set to obtain greater control of companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) from next month. But the changes in disclosure and listing requirements fall short of statements made in a document circulated by the JSE in August last […]
Bafana Khumalo Native Tongue EVERYONE knows I’m a sucker, don’t they? I have been taken for a ride on more occasions than there have been marches in this country. Every Tom, Dick and Harry wants to take me for a ride whenever they see me. They know they will succeed — all they need to […]
ANC deputy secretary general Cheryl Carolus applied for life insurance — and discovered how HIV sufferers are The experience of buying our first home has been turned, for my husband and I, into a face-to-face confrontation with the irresponsible and discriminatory way in which the insurance industry continues to deal with HIV and Aids. It […]