Iqbal Survé
Iqbal Survé s family holding company is indirectly receiving millions from Ayo Technology Solutions through a secretive new company despite the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) fighting to claw back all Ayo s cash.
Assets from Independent Newspapers are also being moved into the new company as the PIC fights to take away Survé s control of his media empire by liquidating Sekunjalo Independent Media.
Despite these efforts, the PIC still has no preservation order to secure the R3.2 billion still left of the R4.3 billion it controversially invested in Ayo during the reign of former chief executive Dan Matjila.
The village of Mowbray was established in about 1853 on the farm Welgelegen, in an area more commonly known as Drie Koppen. This name was of Dutch origin, and was given to a road intersection where the heads of three slaves had been impaled. Picture: Tracey Adams/African News Agency (ANA)
LETTER: Can offensive names of the past, such as Drie Koppen , be retained?
By Opinion
Koert Meyer.
As soon as I came across the street name “Drie Koppen” in Edgemead in November 2015 while taking part in a road race together with more than a thousand runners, I pointed out this hurtful colonial incident in a letter published in this paper dated 23 December 2015 under the heading “Road of ‘3 severed heads’ needs new name”.
weekly newspaper.
The long-awaited SANEF-commissioned report on media ethics and credibility has surfaced, with some far-reaching recommendations. But the report, which is more than 300 pages long, has one big flaw, or gaping hole, or lacuna, to use legal parlance, if you like: the Independent Newspapers group was hardly covered. This is the country’s biggest print company and it does not belong to the Press Council of South Africa.
The impetus for the inquiry into ethics and credibility was The Sunday Times debacle of three sets of stories between 2011 and 2016: the SARS “rogue unit”, the Cato Manor “death squads” series and the Zimbabwe “renditions” pieces – for which it had to retract and apologise. The Sunday Times, which subscribes to the Press Council, abided by the Ombud’s decisions and its then editor, Bongani Siqoko, apologised in 2018. The brief to the panel was to cover all news media (except for the SABC, which was already engaged in an inquiry) and n
Offaly’s Pat Fleury. Photo: Sportsfile
It ran from 1963 to 1967, but since it didn t have official GAA backing and was largely ignored by the wider media world, it ran aground.
Mick Dunne (initially Irish Press and later RTÉ) led the campaign to launch a new and official scheme, complete with sponsors and a glitzy presentation ceremony, the first of which was held on December 15, 1971.
Carrolls did an excellent job marketing the new arrival, including the production of large colourful posters, which carried pictures and citations for all 30 players. They became essential decorations on pub and club walls and, in many cases, a whole range of them are still to be seen around the country.
COLUMN: Alex Tabisher writes that a country that loses its moral compass or abandons its faith-based teachings is doomed, and that maybe SA should be rebooted.