Former Pact CEO Louis Bezuidenhout was given a secret “severance package” before being immediately re-employed on contract by Pact. And the amount – estimated at around R500 000 – was never reflected in Pact’s financial records. These are the findings of an investigation into the existence of a secret trust fund set up for senior […]
Norman Kempster AT least three Liberian gunmen were killed by Marine guards this week when they tried to invade the US Embassy compound. Monrovia was swept by factional fighting and lawlessness after the breakdown of a 10-day- old cease-fire. The Pentagon said unidentified Liberian assailants fired on the embassy on three occasions, drawing return fire […]
Gaye Davis reports on the dramatic scenes behind this week’s constitutional impasse SCENES of high political drama played out in Parliament’s old Assembly chamber early on Thursday morning when African National Congress negotiators declared deadlocks with the National Party on single-medium instruction, property rights and the employers’ right to lockout. The crisis, culminating at the […]
Was the ANC’s support for this week’s Cosatu strike a trade-off? Jacquie Golding-Duffy reports While labour analysts say the strike this week by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) was “relatively successful”, some are questioning why the federation opted to avoid any direct conflict with the African National Congress. The 1,6-million-strong federation embarked […]
Michael Fletcher AFRICAN-AMERICANS are more likely than the general American population to be victims of crime – a reality that fuels their support of tough criminal penalties, although they have little confidence in the criminal justice system, according to a new poll. That ambivalence reflects the dilemma facing many blacks: they feel more threatened by […]
young guns GOLF: Jon Henderson AGE may be the opponent that eventually beats even the greatest champions, but in Nick Faldo’s case you suspect that it will have to go to the fifth hole of a playoff and then be made to sink a “gimme” put from five centimetres. Based on the 80 major championships […]
director Roy Paulson sees himself in the guise of Superman Jacquie Golding-Duffy Which television programmes do you watch most often and why? I find that the SABC programmes are, at the moment, in a total mess and there is very little to watch of any merit except, obviously, Business Day Tonight, and I do enjoy […]
Admiration for Archbishop Desmond Tutu goes from strength to strength as we watch him setting about the Herculean task of cleaning out the Augean stables of apartheid-era atrocities. But even as we applaud him, we cannot help but worry about him. “Arch”, as he would have us know him, has made no secret of his […]
In London, ADRIAN SEARLE finds much to wonder at in a show of drawings by South African-born Marlene Dumas MARLENE DUMAS’S drawing show at London’s Tate Gallery is about love, sex, bodies, babes, illness, Jesus and God. Dumas, who has shown in Britain before, but not to enough notice, is one of the most interesting […]
Richard Saunders South Africans played a leading role behind the scenes at last week’s 37th Zimbabwe International Trade Fair in Bulawayo – they built it. This year the ZITF contracted SA’s Shocraft to erect, partition and disassemble exhibitors’ stands, to the detriment and vociferous complaint of local joiners who have traditionally built it. But now, […]