BUT YOU COULD LOSE YOUR FRIENDS More irksome status symbols than BMWs, cellular phones demand their own set of rules for users. Reg Rumney reports on cell phone etiquette YOU are lying on the beach, soaking up the sun’s pleasant if carcinogenic rays and listening to the soothing susurration of the sea’s waves. But what’s […]
Annie Mapoma FOR some refugees, South Africa is not the land of milk and honey. “We would rather go back and die in our country than stay here and suffer,” said two Rwandans being counselled this week by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Johannesburg. Alexis Nzigimana (23) and Just Matata (22) are […]
Despite some disappointments the South African team has performed creditably at the Games, writes Julian Drew WITH a return of four bronze medals at the halfway stage in the Commonwealth Games, a success-hungry South African public may have felt a little disappointed at their team’s performance in the opening five days of competition. The truth […]
The Markets Jaques Magliolo WILL investors never learn that an extra percentage point is not worth the risk of losing all one’s hard earned savings? The problem, say the experts, is that most South African investors do not understand or believe they can protect their investment better than anyone else can. “Stockbrokers, analysts and portfolio […]
Sometimes called the Detroit of South Africa, the Port Elizabeth-Uitenhage economy is reeling from the effects of the automobile strike, writes Steuart Wright IN Tambo Village, a shack settlement outside Uitenhage, Prudence Ndika (35) doesn’t know how she is going to feed her family of four. A month ago her husband, Fezile Ndika (39), a […]
STANDING rules for the national assembly refer to people not directly involved with parliament as “strangers”. The ANC wants to change this. There are no strangers, it says, only “non-members” — after all, parliament represents the country’s people. A drive to involve the public in law-making has seized the new parliament. Holy cows of the […]
Amid the illusion of free, fair elections, democracy and good journalism, Malawi is heading for secessionist misery, reports Bruce Cohen ‘ASSASSINATION plots galore — ruling party associated with the evil act,” trumpeted the headline in last Saturday’s Malawi News, one of a dozen newspapers that have sprung up to face the challenge of Africa’s newest […]
The End Conscription Campaign has demobbed. Its success lay in individual creativity, counter-cultural inspiration and youthful anger. Gavin Evans reports THE launch of the End Conscription Campaign 11 years ago was one of those rare moments of creative inspiration that happen so seldom in protracted political struggles. Not only did it play a major part […]
Stefaans Brummer PRESSURE is building in New Zealand over the presence of a former South African security police captain implicated in the brutal slaying of his first wife. New Zealand’s immigration service is now reviewing its file on Michael Bellingan, who left Johannesburg on May 29, three weeks after a Johannesburg inquest court found there […]
We can expect a triple B on our investment report card, writes Simon Segal A TEAM preparing South Africa’s country credit rating, vital for the country to be able to raise money abroad less expensively than it has done, is in the country. The team should have a rating within the next few weeks. Most […]