Two weeks ago, South Africa witnessed one of the worst cold fronts in a while. Fortunately, it was an unforeseen and temporary inconvenience. It is easy to forget about the mild winters currently forecast by the weather bureau. Weather remains the only unpredictable phenomenon about which we cannot do much.
When news of Ernie Els’s knee injury in 2005 reached the world’s best golfers, Fiji’s Vijay Singh said: ”It’s sad that it happened … The team will miss him more than he’s going to miss the team.” How apt. For since the injury during a sailing holiday in the Mediterranean, and even after his return, the world has missed Els.
The David Gleason Column Is South Africa about to step out from underneath its long-running recession? Stockbroker SG Frankel Pollak chief economist and strategist Nico Czypionka believes the domestic economy has bottomed, and privately says he considers it probably touched its lowest ebb in February. Well, that’s certainly something, but it won’t do to get […]