The conservative policies behind the government’s broad economic framework have propelled South Africa back on to the foreign investment community’s radar screens. Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has cut government spending and brought the budget deficit to below 3% of gross domestic product, inflation has hit a 30-year low, and interest rates are on a […]

Overloading caused the plane crash near the Rand Airport near Germiston on December 6 last year. Ten people, including the pilot were killed in the disaster. Civil Aviation Authority commissioner Trevor Abrahams said in Pretoria that the aircraft’s other major problem was a loss of power in the right-hand engine.

A Durban principal had been under police investigation for paedophilia for many years, reports Paul Kirk The KwaZulu-Natal press has been peppered with advertisements celebrating the death of a former principal and scoutmaster who has emerged as one of South Africa’s worst serial paedophiles. Douglas Drysdale, who died last week, was principal of two of […]

Belinda Beresford What Is … Rhema Church? The Rhema Church, headed by Pastor Ray McCauley, is becoming one of South Africa’s most fashionable institutions. This week the church received another seal of acceptance from South Africa’s black elite when it was chosen to host the funeral of African National Congress stalwart Alfred Nzo. Last week […]

BAFANA Bafana completed their local preparations for the African Nations Cup with a 8-0 drubbing of lower division club Arcadia Shepherds. Pollen Ndlanya and Siyabonga Nomvete scored two goals each.

Hard on the heels of the Booker, won by JM Coetzee for Disgrace, comes the Whitbread, with another South African on the shortlist. Former publisher Robert McCrum looks at prizes and the literary life Fiction, money and prizes are in the air in Britain once again. The Whitbread Prize will be awarded on January 26 […]

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Friday 9.45am. MPUSH Makambi, the International Boxing Organisation’s middleweight world champion, was voted the South African boxer of the year on Thursday night. Makambi was a popular winner at the 24th Annual King Korn Boxing Awards held in Sandton, although many thought the likes of Lehlo Ledwaba and Hawk Makepula would […]

Andrew Muchineripi previews Bafana Bafana’s chances at African soccer’s showpiece in Nigeria and Ghana Cometh the hour, cometh the men in the 2000 African Cup of Nations, or will it be The Boys, otherwise trading as Bafana Bafana Public Ltd under the management of Trott Moloto. Logic dictates that co-hosts Nigeria and Ghana start as […]

Mercedes Sayagues An 800m-long queue curls around a petrol station in downtown Harare. Elsewhere, queues cause car accidents and fights. Angry drivers are frantic for diesel – Zimbabwe staggers with barely a one-day supply left and erratic deliveries. Far worse than the woes of the 4×4 crowd is the problem for commuter buses and factories. […]

ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Johannesburg | Thursday 6.30pm. TWENTY-seven-year old Tzaneen resident Wallie Coetsee leads the South African Open after a first round 65, seven under par at Randpark. Coetsee, who has done little of note in seven years on tour, leads by a shot from fellow countryman Des Terblanche and two Englishmen, Greg Owen and Paul […]