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. […]

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 […]

ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Johannesburg | Friday 6.30pm. ENGLISHMAN Paul Eales and South Africa’s Darren Fichardt head the field after two rounds of the South African Open at Randpark. Eales shot a three under par 69 and Fichardt a five under 67 to reach nine under par, a shot ahead of South Africa’s Don Gammon, former US […]

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 […]

Marianne Merten The policeman’s traditional brandy and coke remains a widely acceptable way of combating stress and anxiety, as alcohol misuse is kept hush-hush in a service struggling to transform itself and deal with high levels of violent crime. “It seems to be a socially acceptable norm to drink in the police. It is part […]

bombings Ivor Powell New evidence of police involvement in Cape bombings has come to light in the questioning of police informer Deon Mostert by the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD). Top police sources told the Mail & Guardian that Mostert has identified a Cape policeman, who he alleges was involved in planting bombs, as part of […]

DEPUTY Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad will lead a South African delegation to a council of ministers meeting of the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional CoOperation, his office said on Thursday. The two-day meeting is scheduled to start on Saturday in Muscat, Oman. The meeting aims to promote cooperation among states bordering on the Indian […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni South Africa’s largest vigilante group, Mapogo a Matamaga, is spreading its influence in and around suburbs of Pretoria and Johannesburg. Last year the group, which has become infamous for its sjambokking and brutal assaults of alleged criminals, formed branches in Alberton, Springs, Vereeniging, Hammanskraal, Centurion and Pretoria. Leaders of Mapogo claim […]