BoE believes the United States economy’s dramatic growth spurt is coming to an end Anet Ahern The global economy has continued to recover in the last quarter, but signs are emerging that world growth is beginning to peak. Global leading economic indicators are topping out, and there are initial signs of a slowdown in the […]
Charl Blignaut LIFESTYLE One had to wonder, at some of the lower points of the evening, as the swirling lights hailed yet another African dawn, the corporate voice-over declared yet another renaissance-in-heels and the worst of the human zebras passed on the catwalk, what New York would make of it all. The four winners of […]
Neal Collins cricket Today, I will talk of the tree. Not to the tree you understand. England may be losing regularly to Zimbabwe but I haven’t lost my sanity. Yet. The tree? There is only one worth talking about in cricket. You may have seen it on telly recently, while the West Indies were getting […]
workers’ ownership scheme Thuli Nhlapo The Northern Province government has blocked a Tzaneen farmer’s efforts to sell land to his employees after accusing the farmer of trying to short-change his workers. The farm workers have denied the government’s claim and stood by their employer and the plan of owning shares on the avocado farm. In […]
Do unit trust awards actually provide any useful information for the investor? Thebe Mabanga The unit trust industry is entrusted with the responsibility of looking after the wealth – and often livelihood – of investors with relatively little knowledge. At the end of the March quarter, this wealth amounted to R117-billion and was controlled by […]
Bill Elliot golf Five hundred years after it was first used for something that at least vaguely approached golf as we know it, the jury is still out on whether the Old Course at St Andrews is a work of erratic, supernatural genius or just an erratic work. Views vary from the reverential tone of […]
Thebe Mabanga Comedy lovers can brace themselves for a dose of good fun, rasping wit and downright silliness when two events bring a total of nine comedians to stages in Gauteng. The first event is the 5fm/Savannah Dry Jay Thang Heavyweight Comedy Jam, which brings together some of the circuit’s finest comics. Heavyweight Barry Hilton […]
Khadija Magardie In a landmark judgement, Britain’s highest court has given 3 000 South African litigants the go-ahead to sue United Kingdom asbestos company Cape Plc in the UK. The litigants are all suffering from various asbestos-related illnesses which they contracted while working for Cape, which pulled out of South Africa in the 1970s. The […]
Alex Clark Martin Bauman: A Novel by David Leavitt (Little, Brown) The confessional genre, the colossal growth area in non-fiction of recent years, has attracted a healthy readership and a rather unhealthy amount of critical disdain. Why, detractors protest, must writers shine a light on the shabby corners of their lives simply because they have […]
Chris Visser The biggest challenge facing the average investor is to structure a portfolio that affords the best possible returns for the lowest possible risk. Evidence published in the April 1998 issue of Insurance and Investments indicated that an investor with an offshore element in his portfolio can earn the same return as available domestically, […]