Mathews Phosa’s political career may be at an end, but he won’t go down without a fight. Wally Mbhele and Makhosini Nkosi report As the African National Congress late this week announced its far-reaching findings on the political divisions behind the collapse of provincial structures in Mpumalanga, outgoing Premier Mathews Phosa came out blazing and […]

Shaun Harris The great regulation debate over unit trusts and similar investment products has been raised to a new level with the publication of the Collective Investment Schemes Bill, jointly drawn up by the Association of Unit Trusts (AUT) and the Financial Services Board (FSB). Like all proposed changes aimed at an established industry – […]

Bram Stevens South African equities put on a stunning performance in the first quarter of 1999, spurred by falling interest rates and bullish global markets, fund managers said this week. The key all share index gained 18,1% to end the quarter at 6 382,5, buoyed by sharp gains in the interest rate-sensitive retail and furniture […]

Are Africanism and nation-building mutually exclusive, or can Mbeki harness them in a team, asks Stanley Uys? While President Nelson Mandela has concerned himself with ceremonial matters, winning foreign friends and influencing people, Deputy President Thabo Mbeki has been running South Africa: chairing the Cabinet, managing day-to-day affairs, shaping policies, and moving on to the […]

Friday night :Andrew Kay My Friday night was so good it actually started the night before. Coming at the tail end of a cathartic and sleep-deprived three- day bender, my Friday night was perhaps a little tame in comparison with the previous two nights. If this column had been titled Wednesday to Friday night, you […]

SEVEN major opposition political parties in Mpumalanga banded together on Thursday to create a multi-party forum to co-ordinate election campaigns and monitoring. The initiative, spearheaded by the Institute for Political Leadership, should allow opposition parties to pool resources and staff to monitor voting polls and election rallies, and to attempt to ensure that the ruling […]

Richard O Boyer travelled extensively with the great bandleader and his orchestra in the early Forties. Here he captures the spirit of the time It was on a day coach, rolling through the Ohio and Pennsylvania night that Duke Ellington wrote most of New World A-Coming, a symphonic work which had its premiere at Carnegie […]

If HIV/Aids infection continues at its current rate, the gap in the productive workforce could be devastating. Aaron Nicodemus reports For a country like South Africa, the worst part about Aids is who it kills. Unlike the bubonic plague that devastated Europe centuries ago, Aids does not prey upon the weak, the old and the […]

Ann Eveleth Today’s farmworkers are a vocal bunch. Not only do they know that they are getting the short end of the stick, but also that the battery of new land and labour laws are supposed to protect them, and they have strong ideas on why these measures are falling short. Joining forces with about […]

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 […]