Donna Block:SHARE WORLD Have you got nerves of steel, a cast- iron stomach and access to a computer with a connection to the global network? If so, then you can become part of a small but growing group of independent investors known as “day traders”. Unlike traditional or online investing, where investors hang on to […]

Robert Armstrong Rugby It was the briefest of exiles. Less than 24 hours after being thrown out of the Five Nations Championship, England were reinstated with farcical speed after agreeing this week to toe the line laid down by the tournament’s governing committee. Their expulsion was overturned shortly after Rugby Football Union representatives gave unconditional […]

Andy Capostagno Cricket The Wanderers has been sold out for Friday’s opening match of the one-day series between South Africa and the West Indies. What does that tell us? That the South African selectors have chosen a squad with broad appeal? That the West Indies are only likely to provide token resistance? Or is it […]

Andy Capostagno Golf If there is one thing guaranteed to worry most of the world’s best golfers it is the sight of Ernie Els looking relaxed. The big man showed up at Stellenbosch Golf Club on Wednesday looking bronzed and unshaven, as if he had celebrated winning the Alfred Dunhill PGA by chilling out on […]

Donna Block The government of President Robert Mugabe has succeeded in doing what no one has done before: it has caused a strike by stockbrokers. For three working days, from January 14 until January 19, Zimbabwe’s traders, dealers and brokers agreed not to accept orders or place bids. The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, once one of […]

probe Mungo Soggot The Heath commission is in possession of an affidavit signed by a person who claims to have been present when a Gauteng MEC and other top officials received bribes of at least R1-million related to the award of a casino licence. Sources in the Gauteng legislature and sources close to the commission […]

Michael Brooks meets research director Karl Kummerle and tries on a computer for size Some Japanese girls are waving and dancing 3cm in front of my right eye. No one else can see them, or hear the music in my ear. I can, with a bit of focusing effort, look right through their bobbing heads. […]

dispute Ann Eveleth The controversial Johannesburg lawyer who championed the rights of fathers in the Lawrie Frasier adoption saga was last month ordered by the Cape High Court to return his nine-year-old child to his estranged wife in Cape Town. Peter Soller was ordered to return his son to Nancy Soller on December 28 after […]

Mungo Soggot The world’s most famous pop star exchanged his trademark white glove for a yarmulke last weekend when he attended a bar mitzvah at the Sandton synagogue and nearby Capri hotel in Johannesburg. Michael Jackson jetted in from the United States especially for the event, stunning guests with his enthusiastic participation in the festivities. […]

Andrew Muchineripi Soccer In a compact, white-walled room with a yellow door, a well-worn greyish carpet and small windows covered by rattling venetian blinds, Bafana Bafana coach Trott Moloto laid bare his soul this week. It was Tuesday, the temperature had climbed to 30C by midday at the Esselenpark complex north-east of Johannesburg and the […]