by Dan Roodt Deputy President Motlanthe’s call for black business to become more “cost-competitive” in tendering for state business is another noble-sounding ideal denied by reality. South Africa is so committed to race preference that there is no turning back. It is inscribed in the Constitution and in the minds of almost everyone. BEE, which
Read more: US-style ‘minority procurement’ or BEE is ill-suited to South Africa
Johannesburg – Gauteng police have arrested two suspects in connection with the murder of an elderly couple from Kempton Park, east of Johannesburg, this week, according to a report on Friday. Marie Sim, 68, and her husband Leon Sim, 71, who ran Anneliens Guest House in Creswell Park, were both found with their throats slit,
by Dan Roodt To most people outside South Africa in developed countries, our life here must seem bizarre. After all, nowhere in Europe or the United States would you drive your children to school and see that the country’s largest newspaper, the Daily Sun, has got “Terror of the gay Tokoloshe” as its frontpage story
The Association for Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) has called for an independent commission of inquiry into the killing of 34 striking mine workers at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine, in Rustenburg. “As much as the president of South Africa has called for a commission of inquiry, we are not different to that, but what we
Read more: Amcu calls for independent commission of enquiry as mineworkers were ambushed at Marikana
As the trial of Anders Behring Breivik comes to an end, Norway is just starting to shape its future as a nation no longer isolated by its great wealth from a troubled outside world. Survivors of Breivik’s massacre are waiting for Friday when an Oslo court passes judgment on the anti-Muslim gunman, hoping to return
Over the past few days PRAAG obtained new information about the Marikana massacre that is currently still making frontpage news in South Africa. It appears as if the miners of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) were deliberately murdered by the police as part of a campaign to get rid of the bothersome
Read more: Did South African police kill at Marikana to help black billionaire Ramaphosa’s finances?
Black business should deliver affordable, quality products and services if it wants government contracts, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Tuesday. “As we support black business, black business must bring a commitment of delivery, cost-competitive and quality of items that are procured,” he told analysts and business people in Soweto. He asked why a
President Jacob Zuma could cost the South African taxpayer more than R500 million over five years, according to analysis based on the ministerial handbook. “At the very least, President Zuma will cost the South African taxpayer R517.7m over five years — an average of R103.5m per year,” said Gareth van Onselen in a blog published
Read more: South African President Zuma could cost taxpayer R500m ($60m) over 5 years
Banking institutions Barclays and its subsidiary Absa are discussing combining to operate as one bank in Africa. “This is expected to involve the combination of Barclays interests in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and the Indian Ocean with Absa, with Barclays Bank PLC remaining as the majority shareholder of the combined African operation,” the
Read more: Barclays, ABSA combine banks for ‘One Africa strategy’
By Lin Sampson for the Sunday Times: Let me be straight: two months ago I had never heard of you. But I like wild girls, girls who wallow in the swill of society, girls who make mistakes and are as headstrong as a South Easter. Girls who leave bullet-holes of bad behaviour. Your biography is
Read more: Plastic Princess: Open Letter to Khanyi Mbau on the Publication of Her Memoirs
An Australian athlete who supported the famous Black Power salute of two black Americans at the 1968 Mexico Olympics was Monday to be the subject of a parliamentary motion that he be given an apology for how he was treated. Peter Norman was the silver medallist in the 200m at Mexico City, and stood on
Read more: Australian parliament to apologise to ‘Black Power’ sprinter
Young South Africans prefer Kgalema Motlanthe to Jacob Zuma as a presidential candidate, although neither of them are that popular, according to a survey released on Monday. “Given the choice of the two candidates, Kgalema Motlanthe is a clear winner,” said Butch Rice, market analyst for consumer insights company Pondering Panda. In a survey of
Read more: 70% of whites reject both Zuma and Motlanthe as SA presidential candidates – survey
Miners must return to work Monday or face being fired from the platinum mine where rivalry between unions exploded into violence that led to the deaths of 44 people in a week, Lonmin PLC said Sunday. Thirty-four were gunned down by police in one of the worst displays of state violence since apartheid ended in
Read more: Return to work, or be fired! Lonmin tells striking mineworkers
Mrs. Margaret Thatcher famously stated in the nineteen-eighties that “Anyone who thinks the ANC will form the government of South Africa is living in cloud cuckoo-land.” For this, she was ridiculed by the British radicals, with Bishop Trevor Huddleston of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in the forefront. Since that time, all the anti-apartheid secrets have been
Read more: Are Mrs. Thatcher’s cuckoos coming home to roost?
