Lesley Cowling Buying yourself that coveted car, boat or string of pearls might seem a simple transaction: you pay the money, you get the goods. But unless you conduct business like a television drug deal (slide over the suitcase of money and I’ll throw you the cocaine), you may find yourself out of pocket. What […]
Kevin Mitchell Gay Games Nothing really prepares you for the Gay Games. Certainly not 47 years of heterosexuality or a month on the testosterone circuit known as the World Cup. If there is another place on God’s earth where 15E000 of his creations are as nice to each other at one time, it was not […]
SARAH BULLEN in Johannesburg | Wednesday 4.00pm. BUSINESS confidence dropped by 1,9 index points to 90,3 in July from 92,2 in June, largely as a result of the country’s increasing net open forward position and the vulnerability of the balance of payments, the latest South African Chamber of Business Confidence Index released on Wednesday indicates. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg| Wednesday 4.30pm. THE South African Broadcasting Corporation is expected next week to announce a surplus of over R100-million in its end-of-year financial results, outgoing chief executive Zwelakhe Sisulu said at a function in Johannesburg on Wednesday. “We no longer have an identification crisis … The SABC is poised to enter the next […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.30AM. WESTERN Province will field a full-strength squad, including Springboks Bobby Skinstad, Andrew Aitken, Selborne Boome and Chester Williams, when they face Eastern Province in a Currie Cup match in Cape Town on Saturday. Coach Alan Solomons also makes his return to Newlands after assisting Nick Mallett with the Springboks […]
CHRISTIAN FIGENSCHOU, Johannesburg | Thursday 4.00pm. IT emerged in the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday that more than 1000 policemen have been murdered in South Africa since 1994. Meanwhile, the South African Agricultural Union published statistics that show there were more than 2000 attacks on farmers, in which more than 500 farmers were murdered over […]
TRISH MURPHY, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.00PM. A TEAM of United States military personnel is in Rwanda, according to a report confirmed by the Pentagon. The 12 soldiers, part of an “assessment team”, were seen in the vicinity of the Gisenyi border post, which is close to Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Goma was […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 12.15pm. OFFICIALS in the department of mineral and energy affairs on Thursday said they will urge Minerals and Energy Minister Penuell Maduna to ask government to intervene in the four-day-old chemical industry strike. Department Director General Gordon Sibya said: “We believe government has a duty to consider acting as a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 11.00PM. ONE woman has died and another is seriously injured after a bomb exploded at the Salus building in Belleville, near Cape Town on Thursday. The building houses the police special task unit investigating violence associated with the vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs. A Pagad member arrested […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.00AM. THE boys from Highland High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, provided one of the biggest surprises in the finals of the World Schools Rugby championships played in Harare on Tuesday. The American boys, playing for third and fourth spot against Tonga’s Tupou College, beat the boys from the […]