Jacques Magliolo IN an era of increasing “transparency” it is curious that Gencor chairman Brian Gilbertson has not held a press conference to answer questions about the sudden dismissal of senior executive Trevor Rees after allegations that he had tried to blackmail Gencor. The matters raised in the press already, after all, could seriously affect […]

Gaye Davis HARD questions will be asked at next weekend’s meeting of the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) in the wake of repeated scandals shaking the movement and the crisis wracking its Women’s League. The concern goes beyond the impact on the ANC’s image within South Africa and abroad. “It goes to the heart of […]

By Reg Rumney Finance Minister Chris Liebenberg this week expressed concern about the effect of so-called “private label” credit cards on the country’s savings. Liebenberg said that aside from inflation, the other factor decreasing savings was financial deregulation. “When credit is more freely available, there is less saving.” In that context he was concerned about […]

Katz commission member Pierre du Toit argues that critics haven’t read the report SOUTH Africa is finding that tax reform within a real democracy is very different from the old days. Regardless of the Katz Commission’s specific terms, submissions came from a much wider representation of society and were much more fundamental than those received […]

Moveable Feast Barbara Ludman SHIMON’S Bistro and Arlecchino have both found the perfect spot for a sidewalk cafe — away from the petrol fumes and panhandlers but nonetheless out under the stars — in Tyrwhitt Mall in Rosebank. They’re separated by four small shops and flanked by a bandstand, non-working fountains and planters. Along, around […]

Reg Rumney speaks to the Jayendra Naidoo, director of the National Economic, Development and Labour Council, which will be launched tomorrow. The very name of the National Economic Development and Labour Council portends one of its first problems. Quite simply, there are high expectations that this statutory successor to the National Economic Forum and the […]

More claims of hit squads have come from Albert Luthuli’s grandson, until recently a senior IFP military leader, write Enoch Mthembu and Eddie Koch DALUXOLO LUTHULI, Inkatha’s top para-military commander, has entered a state witness protection programme and made shock allegations about IFP hit squads. Luthuli, who described himself as chief-of-staff of the IFP’s “military […]

Acording to the Washington-based Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) there are signs that United States business and investor interest in South Africa is growing. A survey of 69 US pension funds and other institutional investors found that more than 50 percent were already investing in South Africa or were planning to invest there in the […]

Anouk Mommer and Inge Ruigrok A PRETORIA pharmaceutical company claims to have developed a drug that will improve the length and quality of the lives of Aids sufferers. Dr Roy van Brummelen, a director of Biomox, said this week clinical tests indicated the new product, Equimmune, could be the most successful drug in Aids treatment […]

Shadley Nash in Port Elizabeth South Africa’s judicial profession was still a divided and conservative one, said Cecil Somyalo, the country’s first attorney to be permanently appointed a judge in the Supreme Court. In an interview on following his appointment by President Nelson Mandela on Tuesday, Judge Somyalo said his appointment signalled a big break […]