Grassroots culture in Sharpeville is under threat, but out at Dlomo Dam the show goes on, writes Janet Smith Someone wants to turn Dlomo Dam into a tourist destination: a place, perhaps, where intrepid foreign types who are not quite brave enough to spend the night in an actual township, can get close enough to […]

Mukoni T Ratshitanga The University of the North lost a four- year dispute this week when the Pretoria High Court ruled that an academic fired by the university should be reinstated. Sipho Ndlela, former head of the optometry faculty, was fired in March last year after more than two years of internal strife over his […]

SATURDAY Soccer: Kaizer Chiefs vs Mamelodi Sundowns in the Rothmans Cup final on SABC1 at 3pm Rugby: Springboks vs England on M-Net at 4pm

Charl Blignaut The year-long saga around the alleged financial mismanagement involving the board of the Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal (Pact) has continued to spiral. The Mail & Guardian has learned that the board is currently under investigation by the Public Protector. Also under investigation is Pact’s subsidiary Johannesburg theatre, the Windybrow Centre for […]

FRIDAY, 5.00PM: The key M3 money supply for October has suddenly jumped by R5 667-million rand to R364 457-million — from R358 790-million in September, a far worse figure than expected. But economists warn against taking a single month’s figure as proof of a trend. According to figures released by the Reserve Bank on Friday, […]

Dawood Dithato Deputy Minister of Safety and Security Joe Matthews will not be prosecuted on 12-year- old charges that he embezzled his clients’ money while practising as an attorney in Botswana in the 1980s. The office of the attorney general in Botswana is abandoning its long pursuit of Matthews after the deputy minister reportedly repaid […]

Stakeholders pass the buck and the blame for local content malaise, writes Glynis O’Hara Local contempt for local content. This accusation sparked quite a debate at last week’s Durban pow-wow on the state of local content on our airwaves. All parties – from Cabinet ministers, the SABC, M-Net, performers, technicians, community radio to record companies […]

Thebe is moving to consolidate its position by: * Restructuring of Thebe into six divisions from its present four. The two new divisions will be Thebe Communications, which will include its broadcasting and telecommunication interests (these include Khaya FM radio station, its television bid company Station for the Nation among others) and Thebe Travel and […]

Dan Atkinson in London and Mark Milner in Seoul When Yamaichi Securities was looking for a discreet home for 1-billion-odd of bad trades, it didn’t have to look for long. There was really just one place for the duff trades – offshore. And, for the true connoisseur of offshore, the destination of the dud deals […]

The Generations leading actor has `committed suicide’, write Charl Blignaut and Janet Smith This week, notorious advertising executive Hilda Letlalo unceremoniously committed suicide in an SABC studio – and viewers of South Africa’s most popular locally produced soap opera won’t get a chance to see her demise. That’s because Vinoliah Mashego, the award- winning TV […]