How Twitter took over our reporter’s virtual — and real — life and why she likes it that way.
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/ 21 January 2011
Australia, Brazil, Thailand, the Philippines, South Africa … is there a pattern to the floods that seem to be drowning half the world?
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/ 19 January 2011
Africa has a unique opportunity to provide solutions for the global problem of climate change, says Professor Sir David King.
Cosatu has accused the ANC and the government of soft-pedalling on labour broking to shield politically connected business people.
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/ 23 December 2010
The ongoing recession has done much more than affect our collective pocketbooks. It has also driven many to depression — and even suicide.
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/ 17 December 2010
The <i>M&G</i> won its lengthy court battle to obtain a copy of a report commissioned by former president Thabo Mbeki on Zimbabwe’s 2002 elections.
The last Gautrain rail car arrived at the depot in Midrand this week, completing the 96-car fleet.
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/ 3 December 2010
During gender activism campaigns like the 16 Days of Activism, one group of voices is traditionally silent: those of men.
Author Annelie Botes has complained that the <em>M&G</em> deliberately put her in a bad light and emphasised the negative in her comments.
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/ 2 December 2010
South Africa has got to consider renewable energy, or risk being left behind. This was the message from a seminar held by Greenpeace Africa.
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/ 26 November 2010
During the 16 Days of No Violence against Women and Children the media will play a vital role in getting the campaign’s messages out to the public.
After the Jules High School rape incident, the ‘Twitterverse’ lit up with stories from three local women who recounted their own experience.
Bill of Rights notwithstanding, gender-based violence at schools is as prevalent as ever.
Winner — Individual Award: <b>Jay Naidoo</b>.
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/ 29 October 2010
There will be no more retrenchments in the foreseeable future, Standard Bank CEO Jacko Maree said at a media briefing on Friday.
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/ 29 October 2010
The retrenchment of 2 100 Standard Bank employees is nothing more sinister than basic economics, say analysts.
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/ 22 October 2010
Not all offenders meet the "political crimes" requirement of the presidential dispensation.
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/ 11 October 2010
Renewable energy technology in South Africa is ready and waiting; it just has to be rolled out.
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/ 20 September 2010
Jonah Fisher, I now know how you must have felt when you got kicked out of that now-legendary press conference. Well, sort of, anyway.
Three lodges in the Pilanesberg are great places to
‘go bossies’.
From fake Facebook profiles to satirical Twitter accounts, local politicans are getting the satirical end of the social network schtick.
"Being a democratic South African is a troubled relationship, but true citizens don’t quit, they seek new solutions"
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/ 9 September 2010
Neither the government nor the unions made use of a mediation mechanism that could have avoided the recent month-long strike.
Umuzi heads for its 100th title and wants to make quality its trademark.
What began as a schoolboy prank four years ago is, this week, an issue before the Constitutional Court.
Eighty-three volunteers arrived for work at Kalafong hospital in Atteridgeville on Tuesday.
The balanced scorecard, which is not obsessed with ownership, has made compliance easier.
The book is not dead, says Jonathan Ball, managing director of Jonathan Ball Publishers.
The current lack of reading culture has not helped the country’s publishing industry, which was put under further pressure when the recession hit.
Crowds of healthcare workers sang and danced as they protested outside Natalspruit Hospital in Thokoza on Wednesday, watched by the police.
Crowds of healthcare workers sang and danced as they protested outside Natalspruit Hospital in Thokoza on Wednesday, watched by the police.
Bad debt, liquidation rise as small business continues to suffer from the recession.