A SOUTH African firm said it aimed to set up a new completely electronic national stock market before 2001 to rival the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). The new exchange which is to offer trading, clearing and settlement services to the securities industry, will apply to the Financial Services Board for an operating license in September […]
Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are getting married in Malibu, California, this weekend. About 200 guests have been invited to the ceremony, which will take place in a mansion overlooking the sea.
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Howard Barrell There is widespread support for democracy among people in countries neighbouring South Africa, according to a six- nation survey of public attitudes conducted by a consortium of researchers headed by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa). Southern Africans credit democracy for achieving significant increases in their political freedoms but they are […]
Desmond Tutu often caused bemusement when he said that apartheid oppressed us all – black, white and all the shades in-between – and that its end would free us all. The bewilderment that sometimes greeted his assertion was not difficult to understand. For, whatever curtailment apartheid imposed on whites’ liberty or life chances, it seemed […]
Iden Wetherell President Robert Mugabe can be forgiven for feeling rather besieged this week. He is on the receiving end of importunate members of Parliament reminding him of their sterling work on the electoral front and promises made of preferment. He is deeply hurt by the lyrics of songs belted out by opposition supporters at […]
slopes Monica Graaff Obituary To those who don’t climb – and I am one of them – the question “why” always comes up. Why risk your life unnecessarily? Why choose the most difficult route up a mountain when you could stroll up the back? Why? To Duncan Elliott, the 35-year-old South African alpinist who died […]
Nelson Mandela, who is mediating the Burundi peace process, failed to secure an agreement last week, but now says a deal will be signed on August 28.
Deon Potgieter BOXING Realising early on in his career the importance of having an image in boxing, Charles Mailula opted to wear a cowboy hat when entering and leaving the ring. Is it merely a coincidence or perhaps an omen that when he challenges for the World Boxing Union junior featherweight world title this Saturday, […]