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Mkhuseli Jack, chair of Main Street 198, took aim this week at the consortium that is set to replace it as I&J's B-BBEE partner, calling it a mysterious outfit that came out of nowhere at short notice.
Disgruntled empowerment partners are planning to have one of South Africa’s largest fishing groups investigated after the company announced it would discontinue a R1.2bn empowerment deal that smoothed the way for it to secure fishing rights.
This highly lucrative alternative economy began to bloom and spread in full during the 1980s when criminals and drug lords who cooperated with the state were allowed to flourish. But there was a grander scheme – to numb resistance to state repression and to destabilise “troublesome” communities. At the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) it was revealed that Jackie Lonte, then leader and founder of the Americans, had worked with the deadly Civil Cooperation Bureau. Today, several gang-ravaged areas on the Cape Flats are caught in a deadly turf war. In Mitchells Plain alone, six ...