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 […]

A UN report predicts that by 2015 Aids orphans will constitute between 9% and 12% of South Africa’s total population Charlene Smith The government will reach the point where it will not be able to train teachers fast enough to replace those who die from HIV/Aids. South African schoolchildren – sexually active as young as […]

Deregulation of the unit trust industry means that the small investor may have to pay more to management companies Sarah Bullen Earlier this year the unit trust industry was given the flexibility to restructure its products into different classes. As part of the deregulation of the industry, the Association of Unit Trusts (AUT) and the […]

Jonathan Steele A second Look Now that the furore over Zimbabwe’s election has abated, let’s draw a deep breath and admit it: Zimbabwe is an African good-news story. At about 90% the country has one of the highest literacy rates on the continent. Its race relations are excellent. The attempt to fan black hostility against […]

James Hall Swaziland’s parliamentarians this week voted to ban miniskirts in schools in an effort to retard the spread of HIV/Aids and considered a motion to sterilise all people with the disease. The man behind the Swaziland Senate directive banning miniskirts in schools was Majahenkhaba Dlamini, the son of a former prime minister and chief, […]

Mark Ouma olympics Unfazed by her late inclusion into the Olympics squad, Tania Tallie is determined to make her mark in Sydney. A full-time employee in a boat-building business in St Helena Bay in the Western Cape, Tallie has been working for three years to qualify for the Olympics. She achieved her goal just in […]