Belinda Beresford Position, position, position is the guiding maxim in property. But Donald Gordon, former head of Liberty Life and now head of Liberty International, is finding that possession is equally important. Having, metaphorically speaking, built a palatial mansion in South Africa called the Liberty Group, Gordon moved on to the more select address of […]
David Beresford ANOTHER COUNTRY The worst moment of my life came when I was about 15 years old and at boarding school. Two prefects came through to my dormitory and said the housemaster wanted to see me. I walked into his study to be told my brother was dead. The next clear memory I have […]
Taking advantage of loyalty programmes that offer travellers rewards makes sense in this competitive age Angus Begg Shamiyana is a 30-year-old South African working for a cellphone company in Seattle, United States. I’m in the seat next to her on a business class flight to Amsterdam, and in between the odd glass of champagne and […]
PRESIDENT Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique has invited Zimbabwe’s commercial white farmers, threatened by farms invasions and seizures in their country, to settle in his country. Mozambique needs the expertise of experienced farmers to boost its food production, Chissano told the current session of the World Economic Forum’s southern Africa meeting in Durban. About 40 white […]
Parks Mankahlana CROSSFIRE The Mail & Guardian carried an assessment on the first year of Thabo Mbeki’s presidency by Professor Sipho Seepe in which he shows total disregard for facts, logic, history and the obligation among scientists, natural or social, to add empirical value to national discourse. In his assessment of the presidency, Seepe alleges […]
Robert Kirby LOOSE CANNON It makes me extremely happy to announce that I am also suffering from deep clinical depression. What’s more I didn’t own a shade of the material assets acquired by Hansie Cronje during the period in which I became so deeply clinically depressed. I got my deep clinical depression without any help […]
Khadija Magardie Various refugee organisations around South Africa used this year’s Africa Refugee Day to slam aspects of new refugee legislation as “irresponsible”. At gatherings and celebrations countrywide to commemorate June 20 – a day declared by the United Nations and the Organisation of African Unity to highlight the plight of the continent’s refugees – […]
Merryman Kunene In the aftermath of Bafana Bafana’s poor showing at the Nike Cup in the United States recently, the issue of finding a new national team – and coach – is back in the spotlight. By the end of the 2000 African Cup of Nations campaign in Ghana and Nigeria, South Africa had been […]
Ross Garland A SECOND LOOK In 1920 the world-beating Chicago White Sox baseballers stunned the United States by revealing that they had thrown the World Series of 1919. The World Series, that pinnacle of baseball achievement, was won that year by the Cincinnati Reds. After the disappearance of crucial evidence, eight players were acquitted by […]
telescope stakes David Le Page In five years South Africa will be home to the second-largest optical telescope on Earth, thanks in large part to the ingenuity of Cape Town astronomer Darragh O’Donoghue. O’Donoghue has come up with an improvement to the plans for the South African Large Telescope (Salt) that will allow it to […]