Yearly Archives: 2001

analysis Judith February Louis XIV’s financial adviser was once quoted as saying: “The art of taxation consists in plucking the goose so as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing.” Have we in South Africa come to the end of the road as far as major tax reform is […]

I congratulate you on the advertisement on November 9, “When a nine-month-old baby was recently gang-raped, who were the guilty parties?”. The increase in child abuse from 37 500 (in 1998) to 67 017 (last year) as quoted by Minister Steve Tshwete in Parliament earlier this year is a tragic indictment on our government and […]

David Shapshak The death of the desktop PC has long been prophesied by the technology industry, which is always conscious of the next big thing. First came the laptop, then the handheld computers, cellphones and gaming platforms. But the new hub of our increasingly digital homes may well be the fridge, certainly if Korea has […]

The PAC and Cosatu have teamed up with civic and community groups to boot British multinational Biwater out of Nelspruit Glenda Daniels A strident battle has erupted over South Africa’s first test case of water privatisation and even President Thabo Mbeki is said to have entered the fray. The Pan Africanist Congress and the Congress […]

spirit level Cedric Mayson What do religious people have to celebrate? Jews have just had their high season. Hindus are praying and feasting for Diwali. Bahais are commemorating the birthday of Bahula. Muslims are about to begin Ramadan. And Christmas is about to leap over the horizon with a shower of stars and angels, cribs […]

REVIEW Gavin Foster BMW M3 SMG, R405000 BMW 3 Series compact, from R165000 Switch off the Dynamic Stability Control. Move the shift lever to the right sequential mode. Select performance mode programme 6 on the centre console-mounted switch. Move the gearstick forward and hold it there. Now comes the ugly part plant your foot on […]

Morgan Tsvangirai has been tipped as the next president of Zimbabwe. Rehana Rossouw and Jaspreet Kindra spoke to him about the prospects for a free and fair election next year, famine in Zimbabwe and his exit strategy for President Robert Mugabe Rehana Rossouw: According to opinion polls, you are going to be president of Zimbabwe […]

THE bodies of two children were found in a large ditch filled with rain water in Vuwani, Thohoyandou on Tuesday evening, Northern Province police said. Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said the children had gone out to play earlier in the day. ”The siblings, a 12-year-old girl and her five-year-old brother were discovered hours later by passers-by. […]

Ramadan is not only about abstinence Comment Shamil Jeppie The pious view of Ramadan is that it is a month in the Islamic calendar of extraordinary religiosity on the part of the vast majority of the world’s Muslims. It is a period of abstinence, deep devotion and increased recitation of the Qur’an. It is a […]

A POLICE station commissioner shot his wife and three children to death before turning the gun on himself at their home in Jansenville in Uitenhage on Tuesday morning. Eastern Cape police spokeswoman Michelle Kleinhans said Captain Andries Japhta (34) shot dead his wife Helen (31) and their three children Anatacia (11) Ezrah (6) and Delano […]