Nicci Gerrard First Person Things aren’t just discovered. They have to be needed as well. The Vikings reached America long before Columbus. But the Vikings had no use for America, the way that the Spanish Empire did. And there are other more intimate kinds of discovery. When John Donne wrote of: O my America, my […]
operatives 1996 Nobel Peace Prize winner Jos Ramos Horta has come out in support of Robert McBride, writes Wally Mbhele Documents presented to Mozambique’s Supreme Court by Robert McBride’s defence counsel allege that senior Mozambican police and military officers are involved in smuggling guns into South Africa. One of the two state witnesses, Alexandra Uamba […]
Tangeni Amupadhi A string of extraordinary coincidences surrounds the death of Josiah ”Fingers” Rabotapi, one of South Africa’s most industrious criminals, who was shot dead by police in a Sandown flat on Tuesday. Black officers charged with tracking Rabotapi – who was on the run after escaping from custody – were sent to search for […]
Chris Roper On show in Cape Town The listing for this exhibition in the Mail & Guardian last week read ”Four Durban artists”, without their names. It’s a space-saving ploy, but it also says a lot about the way we Capetonians conceptualise the foreigners in our midst, as if they’re some kind of homogeneous group […]
money Michael Metelits One of the more puzzling, and confusing, ideas in finance is the notion of a money market. But money markets are actually relatively simple, and form a key part of a diversified investment portfolio. When you borrow money, you are ”buying” money now in exchange for money in the future. The ”price” […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 11.00PM THE United States has attacked two chemical factories on the outskirts of Khartoum in Sudan, and six “terrorist-related facilities” in Afghanistan. In a live broadcast from Martha’s Vinyard before returning to the White House, US President Bill Clinton said the attacks were not only in retaliation for the August […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 11.00AM. PREMIER Soccer League stalwarts Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates have between them placed seven players on their transfer lists. Pirates stunned SA soccer on Wednesday with the announcement that defender and vice-captain Gavin “Stability” Lane does not feature in the future plans of coach Viktor Bondarenko. Lane was dropped […]
SARAH BULLEN in Johannesburg | Wednesday 5.45pm LOCAL stocks surged into Wednesday morning with far stronger undertones pushing the market up in early trade. Most of the gains were eroded in the afternoon session, however, as persistent fears over the Russian economy dragged the market off its highs. Dealers said most of the morning’s bullish […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.00PM REBELS in the Democratic Republic of Congo have said they are willing to consider a cease-fire with embattled President Laurent Kabila. However they have also accused him of planning a massacre of 20000 Tutsis in the Moba region in southern Katanga province, which is Kabila’s traditional stronghold. Kabila and […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.00pm. GOVERNMENT on Wednesday approved state-owned oil-from-gas producer Mossgas’s plans to develop new offshore gas fields at an estimated cost of R2,2-billion. Mossgas chairman Keith Kunene said the development of the EM and associated gas fields in the Bredasdorp Basin will save South Africa more than R1,5-billion a year in […]