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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

system? Serjeant at the bar Last week the British Home Secretary, Jack Straw, found himself under the political cosh. He introduced a Bill to restrict the right to trial by jury such that in a range of cases the choice of a jury trial would be given to the presiding magistrate. The Bill passed through […]

Andy Capostagno Golf It’s nearly February and the major golf tours around the world have shaken off their winter torpor and are heading towards full swing. But a few big names have stayed on in South Africa for this week’s Dimension Data Pro-Am at Sun City. Defending champion Scott Dunlap is absent, having earned his […]

Local markets should benefit this year from renewed international approval, writes Donna Block. Go along for the ride It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it. Ralph Waldo Emerson made […]

The municipal demarcation process is being obfuscated by a misinformation campaign, writes Jubie Matlou The dispute that has erupted between the Municipal Demarcation Board and KwaZulu- Natal traditional leaders revolves around the role and powers of traditional leaders and the demarcation of traditional authority land under the municipal demarcation process. These two issues were the […]

THE remains of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, as well as those of eight other activists, are to be exhumed by Human Rights in Port Harcourt. The Wiwa family will hold an official burial on April 24 in Ogoni. Saro-Wiwa, an environmental and human rights leader, playwright, and founder of the Movement for the Survival of […]

William Boot The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF)top three officials and the vice-president of the World Bank flew to Gabon last week to introduce 20 African leaders to a new initiative to make it easier for countries to escape the bonds of debt and grow their way out of want. Arriving in private jets at Libreville’s […]

We can only estimate, but we think the slaves may number 100E000. We have freed 20E000 so far. Some slave masters have hundreds of slaves – chattel slaves. They are kept like cattle. Others are kept in what the government euphemistically calls peace camps. International aid organisations are aware of these camps. They send food […]