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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
They are completely surrounded by a Defence Force battlefield, but the Khosis refuse to move. Stefaans Brummer reports on a land dispute involving the ANC, the army and the residents A TINY Northern Cape community clinging to what is left of its ancestral lands in the middle of a South African National Defence Force battle […]
Kitch Christie is the new SA rugby coach, but will the IRB allow former professional player Ray Mordt to be his assistant? RUGBY: Jon Swift WE have endured a plethora of threats from high-ranking rugby officials since our beleaguered national team returned from the somewhat unhappy tour of New Zealand. Jannie Engelbrecht vowed to take […]
Do we need standup comics? Robert Greig, encountering the genre, gives a qualified maybe IN the polite, liberal context of South African theatre, anyone called gross, self- indulgent or obscene is at least original. Ian Fraser is all of those things, which should prove the point. It does — and it doesn’t. He certainly pushes […]
Native tongue Bafana Khumalo HI there, South Africa! Are you still freezing your watchamacallits off? Here in the Big Apple, the sun is shining and the people would make Albert Einstein feel like the slowest student in a remedial education class. I am here as part of a group of eight journalists from Africa, each […]
Selectors plan to drop Wessels and replace him with Cronje CRICKET: Paul Martin KEPLER WESSELS is to be removed as South Africa’s Test and one-day cricket captain and replaced by Hansie Cronje. This drastic and controversial step has already been decided on even though the selectors only meet officially in mid- September to announce the […]
Mark Gevisser visits Soweto’s Mzimhlope Hostel and finds the beginnings of a new political tolerance — thanks to two extraordinary women IF Rita Tandy and Nonhlanhla Masondo were seen together a mere few months ago, both would have been in mortal danger. You wouldn’t know that now if you see the two women meandering together […]