Philippa Garson and Jacquie Golding-Duffy THE South African Police Union (Sapu) has called for the resignation of controversial South African Police Services communications director Craig Kotze who was recently given a permanent job in the force. Sapu secretary general Peter-Don Brandt said Kotze was “running a union-bashing” exercise and had acted in bad faith by […]
HOCKEY: Julian Drew SOUTH AFRICA eagerly awaited the 1993 Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Nairobi as their first step back into international competition, but this year’s version has come at an awkward time for a side preparing for greater things. In three months time South Africa will take part in the Olympic Games in […]
Olympic bid Cape Town’s Olympic Bid Company has closed the doors to public participation in the process of winning the Games for the city, critics told Rehana Rossouw CAPE TOWN’S Olympic Bid Company is a farce which pays lip service to transparency and accountability to the public, but is structured to exclude them from real […]
The new Constitution will scrap the Senate and replace it with a National Council of Provinces, with hotlines to all nine regional governments, reports Marion Edmunds The Senate is due to be replaced by a National Council of Provinces (NCOP) with permanent and floating members — including the premiers of the nine regions who will […]
Bafana Khumalo IT had to happen to me. Only I would have such perfectly lousy timing. I do tend to ramble on, don’t I? I do tend to get involved in things that do not affect the price of butter, don’t I? You’re right, I do do that, but that is my calling. Some of […]
The need for electrification may outweigh the environmental factors, but there is a trade- off between economics and the social costs. Madeleine Wackernagel reports South Africa pays a high price for its cheap electricity, according to a new report published by the Industrial Strategy Project, a Cosatu-linked think-tank. Clive van Horen of the Energy and […]
Conflicting defamation judgments have served to confuse the issue Pity any journalist in Gauteng who is sitting on a controversial story and wants to know whether he can publish it; pity also his legal advisers, who must correctly predict for him what the consequences will be if he does. His dilemma arises from two recent […]
The corporate gravy train: South African company directors regard their remuneration as nobody’s business but their own South African companies are lagging behind international standards of boardroom transparency, reports Stefaans BrUmmer SOUTH African business, still steeped in the secrecy of apartheid isolation, is lagging behind international trends of boardroom transparency — including disclosure of directors’ […]
Ann Eveleth The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal is bringing a Constitutional Court action aimed at settling the question at the heart of the region’s political conflict: how much power should traditional leaders hold? The ANC is challenging the Inkatha Freedom Party-led provincial government’s interpretation of a constitutional clause guaranteeing traditional leaders ex-officio representation in […]
The green jacket that comes with winning the Masters at Augusta is the most sought-after prize for golfers GOLF: Jon Swift THERE is surely no professional golf tournament which concentrates the mind of the world’s top players more than the Masters at Augusta National. There is little time to stop and smell the azaleas along […]