The line between tax havens and offshore financial centres is fairly fuzzy, with most of the latter operating in the former Sarah Bullen A tax haven is one of those emotive phrases that conjur up images from a John Grisham novel: Lotharios in tailored suits popping over to an island for a day, azure seas, […]
Andrew Muchineripi SOCCER Last year it was the top end of the Castle Premiership standings that kept us on the edge of our seats as Sundowns and Kaizer Chiefs took their battle for the title down to the wire. Sundowns defeated now-defunct Cape Town Spurs 2-0 at a freezing Odi Stadium to snatch first place […]
EMPOWERMENT company African Harvest posted excellent results for the six months to March 31. Headline and attributable earnings per share on a pro forma basis grew by 36% from 14 cents to 19 cents. CEO Leon Campher said the results are very pleasing. He noted that because of the capital reduction of R5 per share […]
Brenda Atkinson When someone whom you love, and who is close to you, is raped, your heart’s selfish poems become so much emotional litter. The way your heart feels the world is as if it had never really beaten before this moment, when the phone rings, and the voice breaks: she was raped. She is […]
Neil Thomas TAKING STOCK Small investors are dazed and confused. So they should be; a lot of big, professional investors are feeling pretty much the same. It’s time to take a deep breath, shake our heads and try to get a clear view on our investments. It also helps to remember that we are living […]
Jubie Matlou The Ministry of Agriculture and Land Affairs intends to create a black commercial farming class as part of its overall strategy of land reform and redistribution. This strategy is contained in a policy proposal from the ministry that calls for the establishment of a commercial farmer programme seeking to empower the country’s estimated […]
Paul Edmunds REVIEW OFTHEWEEK Are 35 sagmakers more effective than a few well-aimed jabs? Yes and no, it would seem, in light of Soft Serve 2: Art at Play, which took place at the National Gallery in Cape Town on Friday. The boxing metaphor might seem inappropriate when recounting tales of a multimedia art happening, […]
STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Friday 12.45pm. CONTRARY to widespread media reports and statements by senior government officials, Correctional Services Minister Ben Skosana on Friday insisted his department is still in command of the country’s prisons. “At no point … did I lose control of the administration of my department,” Skosana told Parliament. His comments […]
Chris McGreal in Freetown The young black man with a Sierra Leone accent insisted that he was indeed William Edward Floode. It said so on his Welsh birth certificate; born October 1975 in South Glamorgan. Floode pleaded that he has a brother in London and an aunt working for the United Kingdom probation service. There […]
M&G reporter British banks last week launched a scheme to reunite Holocaust victims and their heirs with money frozen in United Kingdom accounts since World War II. The British Bankers’ Association (BBA) has published names of 10 800 dormant bank accounts holding 2,8-million frozen during the war to prevent the cash reaching enemy hands. The […]