OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 12.30pm. THE Volkswagen plant at Uitenhage ground to a halt on Thursday as workers went on strike protesting the suspension of a group of shop stewards by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa. The strike, affecting about 300 workers, took place after Numsa’s succesful application for a Labour […]

`Theme funds’ have emerged to cater to specialised investment needs, writes Fumane Diseko The performance of unit trust funds based on ethics, such as the Oasis Crescent Fund, Southern Pure Specialist Fund and the Community Growth Fund, has overturned the cynical view that limitations on these funds reduce returns. According to Colin Woodin, executive director […]

DESPITE declaring himself available for the two Tests in India in March strike bowler Allan Donald was omitted from the squad of 14 named Tuesday for the first three of this summer’s triangular limited overs series against England and Zimbabwe. David Terbrugge, who made an impressive Test debut against the West Indies last year, gets […]

jets in action in Congo Tony Blair has told the British Foreign Office that Zimbabwe must have spares for the war in Congo, write Mail & Guardian reporters The British government is set to lift an informal arms embargo on sales to Zimbabwe of spare parts for fighter jets being used in the civil war […]

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 […]

soil Richard Bowker If we are to have a history Then their consensus is It lives best in conversation, disagreement, And has its being in the history-makers Of the passing moment. – Cathal Lagan, Alcantara Memories, 1956, iii. Song for Miguel Lovedale Press has been around for so long it has almost sunk into the […]

Jacqui Pile In a few months’ time, swiping your retail club card or using your ATM card may get you free rape insurance. Lifesense Disease Management is hoping that its rape insurance policy will reach the people that need it most in this way. ”If retail stores and banks purchase rape insurance for their customers, […]

Andrew McFall The first incarnation of Bunny Chow came and went in five months in 1997. At irregular intervals a candy-coloured sheet of social commentary, architecture, reviews and interviews would punctuate your mind with the definitive full stop. Then it disappeared, leaving hordes of Durbanites looking round in bewilderment. Nine issues of thoughts and words […]

AROUND 40 people were killed in Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos when a packed urban bus ran into a fuel tanker on a major route through the city. The bus apparently lost control and careered into the oncoming tanker, the state-run Daily Times reported. Witnesses, including fire services, said around 35 people were injured in the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 10.30am. SOUTH African cricket president Raymond White is facing a motion to oust him as a campaign to appoint a non-white chief executive gathers momentum. The United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCB) is meeting on Saturday to discuss White’s future and the appointment of a replacement for Dr Ali […]