Saturday: In the hot, dry and windy conditions various veld fires spring up in the greater Cape metropolitan area. Sunday: The fire starts in the mountain ranges around Hout Bay in the Silvermine area of the Cape Peninsula National Park. A historic house at East Fort above Chapman’s Peak Drive is destroyed. Staff from the […]

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 […]

If you weren’t in a unit trust with a heavy resource weighting, you probably missed the 1999 JSE boom, writes Neil Thomas The bull caught investors off guard in the final quarter of 1999, driving share prices and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s All Share Index (ASI) to a new high, but leaving most general equity […]

investors Dave Bradfield The market for innovative investment products has grown in the past few years, but innovations in the area of statistical, or quantitative, analysis of these products (and investment funds in general) remain comparatively unknown. With investments, the valuable information is more deeply hidden (it would cease to be valuable if everyone had […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]