Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The report on taxi violence in Gauteng released this week catalogues extraordinary details of police officers in Pretoria joining forces with taxi assassins, even escorting them in police Casspirs. The report reveals details of how police officials leased government property, including firearms, bulletproof vests and police uniforms, to taxi associations for […]

Medical costs will not diminish until abuse of medical benefits ends, reports Sharon Gill `The medical scheme environment must not keep the sick and elderly out, but rather make sure we keep the young and healthy in,” says Neville Koopowitz, marketing director of Discovery Health. “Schemes need to balance their risk profile in order to […]

ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Johannesburg | Friday 6.00pm. A CAPTAIN’S innings from Pieter Strydom and a remarkable assault from Tyron Henderson helped Border to recover from 113-6 to 260-8 at the close of the first day of the Supersport Series final against Gauteng at the Wanderers. Strydom, who made a pair in last year’s final against Western […]

CD of the week Cape Verde – the name just hasn’t been the same since that wonder-woman Cesaria Evora was discovered singing her mornas in a dusty bar in Mindelo. These days Evora must be one of her country’s biggest exports. Ignored until her fifties, she suddenly sold over 200E000 copies of Miss Perfumado, which […]

In the week the SABC showed graphic footage of the carnage in Sierra Leone, a Port Elizabeth businessman has been accused of fuelling the civil war in that country. Peter Dickson reports A Canadian probe into the diamond trade in Sierra Leone has accused a controversial Port Elizabeth businessman of peddling weapons and mercenaries in […]

Tom Roach Yachting For this year’s millennium race the weather in the South Atlantic has not followed the expected pattern. Instead of spending days on end sailing downwind under huge spinnakers, crews found themselves battling fickle winds on their beam, or from ahead. Frequent sail changes, often several times an hour, kept them on their […]

Donna Block The Alpine resort of Davos is where the world’s leading movers and shakers are gathered for the next few days to ponder the challenges of globalisation in the 21st century. New Beginnings: Making a Difference is the premise of the 30th annual session of the World Economic Forum which started on Thursday, with […]

Sarah Bullen Nerves of steel are no longer mandatory to fill in a medical aid application form if you are suffering from a chronic condition. Those polite questions inquiring about the state of your health can no longer serve as embedded red flags that will ensure your application lands neatly in the trash pile. The […]

Stephen Bierley Tennis Jennifer Capriati overcame her old troubles to reach the final four of the Australian Open. Drugs were bound to come up. And they did within minutes of Capriati beating Japan’s Ai Sugiyama 6-0, 6-2 on Tuesday to reach her first grand slam semi-final since 1991. At the subsequent press conference she was […]

ST ELMO’s restaurant in Camps Bay, Cape Town, which was ripped apart by a pipe-bomb explosion in November, was on Thursday provisionally liquidated after its insurers refused to pay its claim. The restaurant owners applied for provisional liquidation, saying they are operating at a loss, and thus can not meet their business obligations. But insurers […]