OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg, Pietersburg | Friday 3.50pm THE government plans to privatise thousands of properties and fixed assets from its R120-billion property portfolio. Business Report quotes Public Works Minister Stella Sigcau as saying that the government intends to dispose of all redundant state-owned houses within the first half of this year. Sigcau is also reported […]

Bob Woolmer >From the Pavilion The changing of the guard is a daily ritual outside Buckingham Palace. Unfortunately, although I suppose inevitably, it also have to happen to the national cricket side. It is an unsettling feeling; the side has performed brilliantly and have become loved by the whole of South Africa. The announcement of […]

Andreas Vinciguerra (Sweden) Age: 18 Ranking: 96 Prize money: $121122 Vinciguerra jumped 541 positions last year to a high of 96 – the third-youngest player to finish in the top 100. The left-hander has yet to win an ATP Tour title, but is an outstanding junior who considers his forehand his best shot, and clay […]

Justin Arenstein South Africa’s National Intelligence Agency (NIA) is set to go on trial later this year when two rogue agents defend themselves on theft and fraud charges totalling R94- million. The agents, linked to the NIA’s strategic projects unit headed by Thabo Khubu, are accused of engaging in illegal money- laundering operations and of […]

Ebrahim Harvey Crossfire Seen against the background of preceding developments, the reaction to recent statements by Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has exaggerated the significance of what he said. Most of Manuel’s policy pronouncements and the impending “big bang” in economic reforms reported last week were said many times last year: the need to accelerate […]

SOUTH Africa should have its first woman president when Thabo Mbeki’s second term in office expires in the by the year 2009, says speaker of the National Assembly Dr Frene Ginwala. “This is the logical conclusion of where we are going,” Ginwala told the Beeld newspaper on Friday, saying it was in line with the […]

Claire Bezuidenhout Summers are extremely humid in Durban. In order to keep their cool, the masses cruise to the beachfront to hang out at the trendy open-air bars on North Beach or the magnetic mainstay of the Blue Lagoon. Girls waltz the promenades in hipster hot pants, low-cut Mae West blouses and platform shoes. The […]

ANGRY demonstrators demanded the return of the death penalty outside the Port Alfred Magistrate’s Court when two brothers appeared in connection with the murder of Brenda Fairhead and her daughter, Kia. Bongani and Zolani Tom, 21 and 22, were not asked to plead and they refused the services of a lawyer. They will remain in […]

Spioenkop. The bloodiest battle of the Anglo-Boer South African War. It was little more than a skirmish, but on this dusty little stage three great statesmen of the 20th century played a role. And so did the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Gavin Foster reports Louis Botha was there. Less than three months before, as […]

Donna Block Share World Europe has got it and got it bad. What have they got? The flu? Yeah, they have that but they’ve also got “the fever”. Stock and bond fever, that is. All across the continent individual investors are getting into a frenzy over the share markets. Just a few short years ago, […]