Euan Ferguson TENNIS Let’s put our hands right up here at the beginning and admit it: grass can, at times, be a little boring. I don’t mean “grass” grass, dope grass, the stuff that just makes boring people more boring; though that’s certainly pretty boring. I mean real grass, the green stuff, cow food, the […]

Grant Shimmin OLYMPICS For most South Africans, even the avid sports fans, the only time they ever see a baseball game is in a sports bar or – if they’re part of the growing satellite TV generation – when they happen to stumble on to ESPN when surfing through the other sports channels. Perhaps a […]

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 […]

Four farm labourers claimed at the hearing that they were sacked for joining unions, unproven theft and protesting against being assaulted.

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 Pill is 40 years old and in that time it has mostly received a bad press because of health risks – we hear less of the benefits. Tania Unsworth celebrates one of the defining inventions of the 20th century The Pill turns 40 this year, and during the course of its life it has […]

SHARES in Datatec jumped on Tuesday after the IT group announced that its US subsidiary Westcon Group has acquired a voice-data convergence technology company. The counter was up 3,22%, or 145 cents, to R46,45 at 1pm, with 298612 shares changing hands. The rise outperformed the information technology sector, which was last up 0,39% to 938. […]

Tony Cox talks to Adam Haupt about his new album and the integrity of music that ignores the pop charts Tony Cox is one of those acoustic guitar trailblazers who began way before it was fashionable to create a uniquely South African sound. He first made a name for himself when he recorded 101 Ways […]