Belinda Beresford With Sanlam, the bastion of Afrikanerdom, and Metlife, the embodiment of black empowerment, set to disappear from South Africa’s financial markets, will the new joint venture mean the end or the beginning of black empowerment in South Africa? Sanlam and New Africa Investment Limited’s (Nail) life assurance subsidiary, Metropolitan Life (Metlife), are due […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki will chair a new super cabinet committee which will “co-ordinate and monitor” everything related to national security. The inter-ministerial committee, to be known as the National Security Council, will be able to deal swiftly with security threats including natural disasters, regional conflicts and internal instability, government spokesman Joel Netshitenzhe said after the […]

Zanu-PF militiamen were very active during Zimbabwe’s voting days. Mercedes Sayagues reports Mashimba Jeremani gasped as he walked into the polling station at Mataga. His torturer was seated at the table, a Zanu- PF polling agent badge pinned on his chequered flannel shirt. When their eyes met, Musiwa Mapiye lowered his head. Jeremani (22) and […]

losses Glenda Daniels ‘I might be earning cents at the moment, but it’s early days and it’s better than sitting at home and starving,” says thirtysomething single mother Joyce Moemedi, who has joined a small-business project to learn mosaic skills after 10 years of unemployment. Moemedi, who once had no skills, is now general secretary […]

The ‘countertrade’ component of South Africa’s weapons package is in danger of falling through Ivor Powell Promises by foreign companies and governments to organise substantial investments in the South African economy in exchange for weapons contracts are going sour – before the government’s controversial R32-billion arms deal is even finalised. Government sources defending the weapons […]

Mark Ouma Banyana Banyana aim to secure the future of women’s soccer in South Africa by putting up an inspiring performance when South Africa hosts the African Cup of Nations in October. Aware of the enormous challenge that lies ahead, the national women’s team are determined to overcome the odds stacked against them and perform […]

Africa’s bid to host the World Cup for the first time is undermined by the Confederation of African Football’s refusal to choose either South Africa or Morocco as the better candidate Connie Selebogo, Nawaal Deane, Merryman Kunene, Thebe Mabanga and Jubie Matlou When the Federation of International Football Association gets to vote for the host […]

A BRITISH man has jumped 2120 metres in a parachute made according to a design sketched by Italian inventor Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century, proving that the pyramid-shaped contraption works. Beeld newspaper said Adrian Nicholas launched himself from a hot air balloon drifting close to the Kruger National Park in Mpumalanga province, at […]

Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION At what stage, I wonder, will SABC upper management, let alone its board, decide to exercise some authority and bring the crude excesses of its television news department under some sort of control? The department quite clearly believes itself to be immune to any sort of restraint, nor does it deem necessary […]

Martina’s back and her huge army of fans go to Eastbourne to lay out the welcome mat Veronica Lee Eastbourne is a funny old place. Famous for being the south of England’s favourite retirement town, where you can smell the formaldehyde rolling in off the sea, it’s also slap bang in the middle of a […]