As South Africans prepare to confirm the new era at the polls, Howard Barrell looks at what happened to the kings of old When last seen, Barend du Plessis, the man who was placed in charge of the national finances after his computer company had gone bust, looked like an aging beauty queen. Consultant, director […]
David le Page Windows 95 and 98 are riddled with excellent functions which Microsoft, in its wisdom, has never gone out of its way to tell you about. Take advantage of some of them in-between your next few system crashes. If you’re not clear on how to get to the functions mentioned, try using Help […]
Lisa Buckingham The Bank of England has begun a discreet investigation into index tracker investment funds. It is worried that the burgeoning growth of such “passive” stock market vehicles risk destabilising London’s financial markets. A team of senior executives in the bank’s financial stability unit is monitoring the issue amid growing fears that tracker funds […]
RIOT police in Zimbabwe used tear gas on Wednesday to stop protesting students marching into the centre of Harare to press home demands for better loans and shorter vactions. Police fired tear gas at thousands of students who were trying to leave the Univeristy of Zimbabwe campus — situated in one of Harare’s upmarket suburbs […]
Ivor Powell With mounting political violence and endemic intimidation in some areas threatening to disrupt the June 2 election, a leading violence monitor has called on the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to cancel polling in areas where political parties and their agents were prevented from operating. Speaking at a workshop on violence and the elections, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Sydney | Thursday 2.30pm. FORMER Springbok skipper Tiaan Strauss should be considered among the candidates to lead the Wallabies, says ex-Australian captain Nick Farr-Jones. Coach Rod Macqueen must find another leader for Australia’s domestic international program with regular captain John Eales injured for most of the season. Farr-Jones suggested to Macqueen that he […]
ZAMBIA and Angola have finally agreed to meet to discuss persistent allegations that some top Zambian government officials have helped Angola’s Unita rebels rearm, president Frederick Chiluba announced on Wednesday. He said the Angolan authorities have provided the Zambian government with details of the accusations which Zambia responded to “detail by detail”. He did not […]
Marianne Merten Debates around the size and name of the new local government structure in Cape Town are expected to become heated. The mother city plans to be a “unicity” by the end of 2000. Already the number of councils in the Cape Town metropolitan area has been rationalised from 69 racially segregated bodies to […]
Van Morrison’s new CD, his umpteenth release but his first for Virgin (via Point Blank), is confidently called Back on Top. Over-confidently, in fact – at least not as far as a long-time Van fan is concerned. It’s not that Back on Top is bad, it’s just that so much of it sounds like so […]
There’s more to investment clubs than starting a stokvel. Alex Brown explains how to get your savings on the stock exchange `Give me an acorn and the passage of time and I’ll give you an oak tree.” So it is with money – but the problem is that few of us are Zen enough to […]