Mail &Guardian reporter Zambian police assaulted and arrested an editor of The Post newspaper, Matsautso Phiri, last Saturday He was taking photographs of a police riot squad dispersing people at a rally in Kabwe organised by former president Kenneth Kaunda. The Post reported that police assaulted Phiri, seized his camera and ripped out his film […]
Mungo Soggot Alexkor, the state diamond producer, is=20 seeking a new head after the resignation of=20 its managing director amid severe tensions=20 over the struggling mine’s privatisation. A representative of the Ministry of Public=20 Enterprises, Wandile Zote, said this week=20 that JD Vermeulen, the managing director,=20 had resigned for health reasons. However,=20 it is understood […]
Sechaba ka’Nkosi Leaders of the Congress of South African=20 Trade Unions (Cosatu) rejected last-minute=20 compromises by the government to meet some=20 of its demands on the Basic Conditions of=20 Employment Bill and pave the way for=20 possible consensus before the end of this=20 parliamentary session. Proposals tabled by the African National=20 Congress in an alliance […]
A black empowerment company has devised a=20 scheme to save millions lost to fraud,=20 writes Charlene Smith Government and some provinces are=20 investigating whether “food cheques”, a=20 coupon-based system, could save millions=20 lost to fraud and corruption in school=20 feeding schemes. Figures released by the Department of=20 Health this week showed that at least R4,3- […]
Madeleine Wackernagel The annual summit of the Southern African=20 Development Community (SADC) is a fairly=20 routine affair, but next week’s meeting in=20 Blantyre could see some fireworks,=20 specifically over enlargement and trade=20 issues. Talk has it that the Seychelles is keen to=20 join, but political as well as economic=20 commentators believe extending the mantle=20 of […]
A mega-project to transform the city Will winning the bid transform or destroy=20 Cape Town? That is the burning question as=20 the city awaits the announcement on=20 September 5 John Young Supporters of Cape Town’s Olympic Bid say=20 the city will be unrecognisable in 2004 if=20 it hosts the games. They insist there will=20 be […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM: LATEST economic data released on Thursday evening by the Reserve Bank are likely to be taken as good news by Bank governor Chris Stals. Despite an apparent rise in inflation in July, growth in the extension private domestic credit dropped sharply to 14,78% year-on-year, from 16,39% in June. M3 money supply growth rose […]
Peta Thornycroft Audiences have switched off from current=20 affairs programmes on SABC TV, while the=20 public broadcaster has also cut back on=20 time allocated to news behind the news. Data provided by the SABC shows that in=20 1995, before the channels were re- organised, 255 minutes a week were=20 dedicated to current affairs=20 (Agenda/Newsline) compared […]
Andrew Worsdale South African film-makers got northern=20 exposure over the past week at the 51st=20 Edinburgh Film Festival, the oldest=20 continuous film-fest in the world.=20 (Remember, movies turned a century-old only=20 last year.) Top of the line-up was the official United=20 Kingdom premiere of Les Blair’s=20 naturalistic massage of Jo’burg’s=20 underbelly, Jump The Gun. One […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM: The urgent high court application by callback operators to overturn a ban on their operations by the SA Telecommunication Regulatory Authority was postponed on Thursday when attorneys representing the SA Callback Association failed to appear in court after getting stuck in a lift in the high court building. Satra agreed to a postponement […]