Author: staff
From academic to “shack builder”, Quinton Adams has charted an unconventional path. Anneliese Burgess speaks to him about the relationship between dignity, trauma and crime, the psychology of poverty, and his dream to heal broken communities, one shack at a time.
When Nicky Troll questioned why her late sister’s pension fund had “no funds left”, she was met with robotic indifference—until she recorded the call. Her persistence uncovered nearly R1 million owed to her family. How many others walk away without knowing?
I remember the day I walked through the V&A Waterfront five years ago and it was completely empty. This week, I took the same walk and the same pictures, and the sight of life breathed back into it reminds me how far we’ve come, writes Paul Herman.
Three provincial department of social development (DSD) chief directors charged with alleged misconduct in a R5m Covid-19 contract in 2020, have appeared at least 87 times before ongoing disciplinary inquiry hearings, most of which were suspended due to the absence of witnesses and, according to the inquiry team, changes in legal representatives who were often sick.
Dolce & Gabbana, LVMH’s Louis Vuitton and Kering’s Gucci are set to anchor a new luxury retail development in South Africa’s V&A Waterfront, according to the head of one of the continent’s most visited shopping and tourism destinations.
When Nicky Troll questioned why her late sister’s pension fund had “no funds left”, she was met with robotic indifference—until she recorded the call. Her persistence uncovered nearly R1 million owed to her family. How many others walk away without knowing?
Two officials from state arms manufacturer Denel appeared in the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crime Court on Friday on multiple counts of corruption for their alleged involvement in the irregular approval and establishment of the Denel Asia joint venture.
Shares of SA’s third-largest mobile operator, Telkom, initially jumped almost 5% on Friday morning after it flagged higher profits, including in a surge in basic earnings after receiving the about R6.6 billion in proceeds from the sale of its mast and towers business, Swiftnet.
Representing a family of farm dwellers who were ordered to remove their nine cattle from the farm they had grown up on, advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi has argued that depriving farm occupiers of the right to graze their livestock was “a form of eviction”.
As you walk into the ANC Gauteng headquarters in Jan Smuts Avenue, a collection of portraits of past presidents hangs on the wall. Interestingly, it does not include President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is serving his second term as party president.