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 […]

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 […]