Tony Twine The relaxation of foreign exchange controls on South Africans has opened a world of opportunity previously forbidden. Unhappily, it has also unleashed a world of mystery on relatively innocent South Africans, many of whom had only had the domestic capital markets as their benchmark for investment performance. Wealthy South Africans, and those who […]
Ian Clayton Women in South Africa have won “a victory” in terms of the laws passed by Parliament since 1994, but key legislative changes are still required, says Pregs Govender, chair of the parliamentary joint standing committee on the improvement of the quality of life and status of women. The priorities she identifies are “a […]
If reverb makes it hard for you to figure out what the words to Heartbreak Hotel are, help is just a click away. All the words to Elvis’s songs are available at , which includes a photo gallery of The King, from school photographs to the lanky youth of early publicity shots to the bloated […]
WAYNE Ferreira, the world sixth seed, beat Boris Becker in the tennis legend’s home town of Munich in the German Open on Tuesday. Wayne Ferreira foiled Boris Becker’s latest attempt to finally win a title on clay, defeating Germany’s three-times Wimbledon champion 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 at the $525000 German Open on Tuesday. Despite being cheered […]
Hamish Mackintosh Millions of people are now using the Internet as a source of free music, and the major record companies don’t like it. The problem is that there’s no way of controlling what amounts to a global distribution network, so hardly anyone is paying for the music files they’re downloading. It’s copyright theft on […]
Shaun de Waal SOUTH AFRICA: A GUIDE TO RECENT ARCHITECTURE by Christina Muwanga (Ellipsis) This exceptionally cute little book (it is a mere 10cm square, though 350 pages thick) is an excellent pocket guide to South African architecture of the last decade or so. It doesn’t go back into our history, so it lacks some […]
A new incarnation of Matabeleland’s Zapu party has emerged to fight the `Shonalisation’ of Zimbabwe, writes Mercedes Sayagues Bulawayo is simmering. Part is fermented anger and part is soulful excitement. The anger is rooted in the government’s neglect of Matabeleland. That western Zimbabwe is poorer is obvious, from the threadbare airport to the barefoot, ragged […]
Pagad and the gangsters may at last find common ground – in a Christian church. Marianne Merten reports Reborn Christian Rashied Staggie has joined the Rhema Church. He has become the latest self-confessed gangster to turn to the Bible. It remains to be seen whether his conversion will see him abandoning his multimillion-rand vice network […]
Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is by no means a masterpiece, but it’s a well- crafted and ingeniously entertaining comedy-thriller. It is neat, to the point, with just the right doses of action and comedy. Simplistically, it’s a mixture of Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave and Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp […]
Suddenly debt relief is all the rage. Everybody is trying to get in on the act, saying that not enough is being done to provide financial help to the poorest nations. From United States President Bill Clinton to International Monetary Fund (IMF) director Michel Camdessus: you name them, they’ve got a plan. Make no mistake, […]