CD of the week David Shapshak Kaolin Thomson could well be the next Alanis Morissette. It’s quite an accolade but it’s quite deserved. The multi-talented 22-year-old has all the attributes of stardom: she has a syrupy voice with an incredible range, plays the flute, sax, keyboards and percussion, and is drop-dead gorgeous. Being 1,8 metres […]
THE second of the three toll gates along the N4 highway between Witbank and Komatipoort in Mpumalanga will be opened next Tuesday. Motorists already paying R20 to pass through the Middelburg toll gate, can expect to pay an extra R30 to pass through the Machadodorp toll gate when it opens next week. This means a […]
When Sanlam listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange at the end of November, about 2,2- million policyholders became shareholders. Some of these sold their free shares immediately and are probably glad they did – Sanlam’s share performance has not been inspiring since, and getting cash near the listing price of R6 was not a bad […]
A REGIONAL leader of the National Union of Mineworkers in Carletonville was killed on Thursday by a group of miners in the town. SABC Radio News reported that Selby Mayisha was addressing about a thousand mineworkers at the West Driefontein mine about benefit payments. He suggested that they opt for benefit payment over a period […]
THE South African Democratic Teachers’ Union on Friday added its weight to the campaign to have Mpumalanga education MEC David Mabuza held personally accountable for the province’s matric exam scandal on Thursday. Sadtu’s provincial general council said in a statement that Mabuza had acted negligently and should be held personally accountable. The council added that […]
Ted Leggett A Second Look The schoolboy killings in Littleton, Colorado, have sent the United States into a paroxysm of self-analysis, and the media circus that has followed is unparalleled since the Clinton impeachment. Guilt-ridden middle-class mothers across the US are frantically scanning the tabloids for tips on how to spot the “warning signs” that […]
Cameron Duodu Letter from the North The refrain which the Chinese used to chant in the Sixties and Seventies – “the United States imperialists are paper tigers” – seemed a bit unrealistic. After all, the US had the most powerful nuclear weapons on earth. It also had a vast arsenal of conventional weapons, which could […]
Michael Metelits Financial institutions have become highly complex and diversified creatures. The good old days when a bank, a stockbroker and a lawyer were the only requirements of upper- middle class and corporate financial security are long gone. Replacing the old holy trinity are tax analysts, insurance consultants, corporate and personal finance advisers, bankers of […]
UGANDA’S central bank has injected $10-million into the country’s forex market in a bid to increase the relative value of the weakening shilling, officials confirmed on Friday. Central bank spokesman Walugembe Musoke said the bank sold $10-million on Thursday through commercial banks in attempt to reduce the dollar rate, which currently stands at slightly more […]
Cyborgs have feelings too. When California neurosurgeon Gary Heit activated one of the implants he had just put into a human brain, the man burst into tears. Heit’s patient at Stanford university neurosurgery clinic was crying because, for the first time in 15 years, he was able to button up his own shirt. A debilitating […]