Sarah Ryle At last an economics professor has done something useful. He has worked out that punters who chose the six least popular numbers from the British National Lottery’s list of 49 stand to make an average weekly return of 11% on their stakes. The magic numbers – 36, 41, 46, 47, 48 and 49 […]
Jack Schofield Three of the world’s best-known companies – Microsoft, America OnLine (AOL) and Yahoo! – are locked in a billion-dollar battle to give you something for nothing: a “portal”, or gateway to the Internet, where Web wanderers can start when they go online. Portals attract millions of users, and consequently lots of advertising. With […]
Marianne Merten The Western Cape’s top detective and one of the key investigators of the anti-urban terrorism campaign Operation Good Hope, Director Leonard Knipe, is set to head a new unit investigating crimes against the state. His promotion was finalised last week despite criticism that Knipe has failed to effectively deal with the violence in […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube These nights I don’t feel much pressed to go out, looking for something I can very well experience in my lounge. With music playing on television through the night, I can read my books, do my drugs, make my love and drink myself to death without interruption, to some of […]
Ivor Powell Six truckloads of weapons delivered to Inkatha Freedom Party strongman Phillip Powell represent only a fraction of the arsenal distributed by former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock to agents of the apartheid regime. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)is in possession of evidence that in advance of the 1994 elections, enough weapons to […]
LIBERIAN President Charles Taylor held private talks on Thursday with his Zambian counterpart Frederick Chiluba on the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Taylor said he is in Lusaka to consult the Zambian leader and support his peace efforts. The Liberian leader left Lusaka on Thursday morning for South Africa, where he is expected […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Welkom | Friday 5.50pm. RESCUE workers have on Friday evening located two miners who went missing after an earthquake hit Welkom in the Free State on Friday morning. It is uncertain if they are alive. The men were trapped deep in the mine where drilling was taking place and there was not much […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM: SOUTH Africa’s most successful rugby coach, Kitch Christie, died on Wednesday evening in Pretoria aged 58 after a long battle with cancer. Christie’s coaching record is still unsurpassed, with 14 games played and 14 games won, he is the only South African coach apart from Nick Mallett to sport an unbeaten record as […]
Casinos aim to capture 8% of the total disposable income of gamblers. David le Page explains how they work out the odds Out at the unsetting Sundome Casino on a Monday night, there’s no shortage of willing cash-cow customers hanging round the tables and lining up at the slots like Pavlovian dogs waiting for bells, […]
I could hardly believe my eyes. There they were, shouting obscenities and hitting human beings on the head and in the face, and kicking them in the ribs. Two people who had just had a serious accident and were clearly dazed, if not unconscious, were tossed out of their car, handcuffed and beaten. The people […]