Q & A `First the Barenaked Ladies and now the Springbok Nude Girls?” quipped Rolling Stone Germany quizzically, adding, “No respectable club owner in Germany would book an act with a name like that!” They did, however, rate our risqu boerseuns’ latest album, Surpass the Powers, above popular American rage outfit Korn. After a live […]

The prime rate is down to 14,5%, creating an excellent opportunity to escape debt. Sharon Gill and David Le Page report Every year you swear you won’t get carried away with the commercialism of the festive season, and every year you go right ahead and blow the budget. Predicted Y2K pandemonium did not materialise, but […]

NORTHERN Cape provincial authorities have suspended the entire traffic department of Postmasburg until February 6. The decision was taken after a report by the Northern Cape Auditor-General found that R280000 had mysteriously disappeared from the department’s kitty. In addition, the small traffic department was unable to account for eight missing firearms. Provincial traffic officials have […]

Scotch Tagwireyi and Connie Selebogo Will it be a group of talented players who click together or a well-drilled and determined team that does the trick when 16 African countries meet in Ghana and Nigeria this week for the 22nd African Cup of Nations? The 16 nations have gathered their best local- and foreign-based players […]

Heather Hogan The number of HIV/Aids-related deaths outstripped the number of births in KwaZulu-Natal last year, according to a report released by the South African Institute of Race Relations. In the report, Professor Alan Smith, head of the virology department at the University of Natal, warns that the rest of South Africa will eventually follow […]

Annalee Newitz Body Language In a quiet San Francisco neighbourhood, surrounded by views of tree-covered hills, a quaint little B&B welcomes visitors from across the country. Guests can choose from four well-appointed rooms in this refurbished turn-of-the-century house, all personally decorated by Elizabeth, the proprietor. While they’re staying at Elizabeth’s B&B – called Differences – […]

We posed seven questions to three unit trust managing institutions, asking them to put their mouths where their money is and outline their strategic thinking past and present. Fedsure 1 Fedsure Asset Management aggressively increased the weightings in resources for Fedsure unit trusts funds. Index weight, however, was never reached. – Patric Ho, chief investment […]

A shaky local economy last year saw investors taking up all available slack in offshore unit trust funds, writes Sarah Bullen Offshore was the investment buzzword last year. Local markets hit a wobbly patch, international markets were strong, and suddenly every investor and their little sister wanted their investments handled in Guernsey. And the easiest […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Friday 1.45pm. MARK Perrow and Martin Dreyer are set to win the three-day Powerade Dusi Canoe Marathon on Durban’s Blue Lagoon on Saturday. In scorchingly hot conditions, the pair gained further four minutes on their nearest rivals on the second day of the event between Cato Ridge and Hillcrest on Friday. […]

You can invest offshore even if your name isn’t Oppenheimer. Sarah Bullen did the legwork You are facing the year with a little nest egg of R10E000. It’s enough for a deposit on a small car, you could put it back into your fairly flaccid 32-day account, but you want to invest it offshore. And […]