A joint venture between Zamani and Templeton seeks to ensure skills transference in portfolio management, reportsMadeleine Wackernagel BLACK economic empowerment deals in the financial services sector are not unusual, but one involving a foreign company and a purely focused asset management venture is a first. Together, Franklin Templeton Group, via its Templeton arm, and Zamani […]
FRIDAY, 8.00AM THE Pretoria High Court last night granted an interdict agains the Mail & Guardian preventing it from the publishing the name of a middle eastern country with which Denel is negotiating an arms deal. Earlier in the day, the paper had refused to comply with a demand from Denel’s attorney’s that it sign […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM RANDGOLD-managed East Rand Proprietary Mine is is on the brink of closure as the falling gold price and lower than expected gold yields push the embattled producer to its knees. The mine, once one of the largest and most profitable in the world, currently employs 4 500 people. Although ERPM is managed by […]
WITH less than two years to go before South Africa’s second democratic elections, the murder of five African National Congress members including two elected councillors in Richmond is a threat to more than just peace in the Natal Midlands. It is proof that sinister forces bent on subverting democracy are still active in South Africa, […]
Stephen Ellis THE international trade in illegal drugs is worth $400-billion a year, according to the United Nations, making it the world’s second-biggest trade after oil. A successful drug-smuggling enterprise, like one of the big South American syndicates, has a bigger annual turnover than half of the world’s governments. Drug profits on this scale are […]
Angella Johnson SHE was banned earlier this year from visiting British prisons amid accusations that she had nearly provoked a riot. In South Africa she is accused of obstructing attempts by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to interview a former member of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s notorious football team about the murder of “Stompie” Seipei, and the […]
Referendums would put an end to the violence and acrimony arising out of border disputes, argues Richard Griggs ALL hell broke loose this year along the boundaries that separate South Africa’s provinces. Deaths, intimidation, house- burnings and other acts of violence related to provincial boundary disputes are rife. The conflict is not just the product […]
Stephen Gray SECRET FIRE: THE 1913-14 SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF PAULINE SMITH (University of Natal Press, R99,95) PAULINE SMITH’S pre-war journal demands a sunny corner to curl up with. Labyrinthine, and actually too disorganised to be read continuously, it wants picking at, probing. This is where those marvellous fine-art stories of hers of a decade […]
I, WILLIAM MASHOTANA (MK name Sizwe Ndela), left South Africa on August 13 1976 for political reasons. I stayed a month in Botswana before I left for Tanzania. I arrived in Tanzania in September and that is where I met Timothy Seremane (MK name Kenneth Mahamba) … He was my deputy commander (commissar) in the […]
FRIDAY, 1.30PM: JOHN MASHEGO , Ashley Roestoff and Michael Scholtz currently share the lead at the Trust Bank Gauteng Classic golf tournament at Randpark golf course in Roodepoort. They lead after scoring 68 in the first round. TRUSTBANK GAUTENG CLASSIC 68 – J Mashego , A Roestoff , M Schultz 69 – D Fichardt, C […]