Peter Dickson More details have emerged about the colourful career and current activities of Bonile Jack, the man at the centre of the Land Bank saga, including a fund-raising scheme he is involved in with an Eastern Cape monarch. Jack is among several businesspeople setting up a trust fund for Maxhoba Sandile – king of […]
Ronald Suresh Roberts Crossfire In an obscurely reasoned editorial (“A new strain of racial prejudice”, July 23 to 29), the Mail & Guardian has announced the arrival of a “virulent” new anti-white racism. It blames this phenomenon on other newspapers, on their alleged “instinct to cosy up to the political power of the day”, churning […]
Police bungling and the inexplicable disappearance of five key witnesses are behind the withdrawal of murder charges against an alleged drug lord. Stefaans Brmmer reports The name Alexander Kavouras inspires fear even on the crime-hardened streets of Hillbrow, his stomping ground. Once friendly with Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB)hit men and no stranger to the underworld […]
New legislation is aimed at addressing serious shortcomings in the maintenance system. But it doesn’t go far enough, writes Shireen Motara The honeymoon is over. The election euphoria has subsided and as our new President, Thabo Mbeki, has said, it is time to get South Africa working. His intentions are also apparent from his appointment […]
Wally Mbhele A series of political humiliations, including bitter encounters with President Thabo Mbeki, lies at the heart of this week’s decision by former Mpumalanga premier Mathews Phosa to quit politics for a new career in the business sector. Besides tensions between Phosa and Mbeki, Phosa is understood to be bitter about the way he […]
SARAH BULLEN and Reuters, Cape Town | Friday 3.00pm THE government on Friday appointed Protea Hotels to manage state-owned Aventura Resorts, an initial step towards the privatisation of the loss-making holiday resorts group. Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe said in a statement the aim of the management contract is to return Aventura to profitability before […]
TOP United States and South African trade officials inaugurated a trade and investment framework agreement between the two nations with a video conference on Wednesday. ”Today’s meeting, our first trade discussion with the new government of South Africa under [the agreement] was very productive,” said US Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky following talks with Trade and […]
LIBYA is to propose that the Arab world unifies it airspace when the Arab League’s council of ministers meets in Cairo in September, a League official said on Thursday. The plan aims to avoid air embargoes being placed on Arab countries, the same source said. “An embargo against one country would be seen as an […]
THE draw for next year’s African Nations Cup finals has been set for August 28 in Lagos, the Confederation of African Football announced on Saturday. The Nigerian capital is also to be the site of next year’s final. The Nations Cup is being co-hosted by Ghana and Nigeria. No details were given on the seedings […]
SCORES of people have died in Nigeria during one week of ethnic clashes in the southern town of Shagamu and the northern city of Kano. Fighting first broke out on 18 July between ethnic Hausas from the north and local Yorubas in Shagamu, a town of about 300,000 inhabitants some 60km north of Lagos. In […]