Outgoing Transnet managing director Saki Macozoma has ruled out any possibility of returning to full-time politics when his contract expires with the transport company next year. Macozoma, who announced last week that he will not seek renewal for his contract, this week said he was looking at spending most of his time at Standard Bank […]
Neal Collins The very first helmet camera to hit British television screens belonged to Richard Johnson, a Grand National jockey, in 1998. Sadly, Johnson, riding a horse called Banjo, fell at the first fence. Though it was a spectacular crash where we saw turf, fence, sky and turf again, we were given no further glimpses […]
Deon Potgieter boxing With the current proliferation of world- title-sanctioning bodies, fight fans are often left in the dark as to who the “real” world champions are. Added to the equation is wide-ranging evidence of corruption and favouritism in those selfsame bodies. There is light at the end of the tunnel, however. The boxing task […]
15 years after its birth in a tiny Braamfontein office, the Mail & Guardian is still going strong – winning awards and annoying the government of the day Barbara Ludman and Rehana Rossouw ‘I give your paper one year, no more.” The message from letter-writer J Paris of Berea, published in The Weekly Mail in […]
A hunter in Kuruman allegedly shot a white rhino 14 or 15 times without killing it Fiona Macleod Kuruman’s favourite rhinoceros was slowly tortured to death in a municipal game reserve in the small Northern Cape town by hunters who did not want to shoot it in the head because they did not want to […]
Sechaba ka’Nkosi The SABC this month begins searching for someone to fill the country’s top media executive position – head of the public broadcaster’s beleaguered news department. The position is expected to be advertised soon, as well as the posts of CEO and chief financial officer. The news candidate is expected to harmonise what has […]
David Le Page The extremely cold weather that has hit the country this week may feel aberrant to most of us, but meteorologists and climate modellers are adamant that it’s nothing unusual. A cold front, or large and unpleasantly cold mass of moist air, moved across the Western Cape on Wednesday afternoon. Preceding it, along […]
Some of sport’s long-running rows range from the petty to the frankly dangerous Kevin Mitchell Mark James might think he’s got the tiger by the tail in his “feud” with the equally stubborn Nick Faldo, but he doesn’t know the half of it. It’s all very well, a couple of golfers handbagging it in a […]
The Springboks will have to tackle all day if they hope to stop the Todd Squad Andy Capostagno The story of the All Blacks, once a kind of Auckland Aenead, has become a Canterbury Tale. Coach Wayne Smith, captain Todd Blackadder, halfbacks Justin Marshall and Andrew Mehrtens and many more have proclaimed the Super 12 […]
A new breed of traders has come into the market: they trade on momentum rather than on proper research Patrick Mathidi Three months ago, we saw the Nasdaq shed 25% of its value. On one Friday alone it experienced a 355-point drop, to 9,7% below opening levels. Yet the following Monday it surprised everybody by […]