FRIDAY, 5.30PM: THE Mozambican judge handling the case of detained foreign affairs official Robert McBride has been threatened by people he believes to be South African agents who have ordered him to nail McBride or ”otherwise you’ll be in trouble”. A reliable source has informed the Mail & Guardian that Judge Carlos Caetano, who has […]
Mungo Soggot A 48-year-old father who was beaten into a coma by police is launching two legal battles against the police. Farouk Juman and his family were driving through the Johannesburg suburb of Lenasia in April 1996 when he accidentally bumped into a policeman on a corner which is notorious for criminal activity. Three policemen […]
Charl Blignaut went to the 1998 Miss Soweto `beauty bash’ at the Standard Bank Arena and liked what he saw The tone of this year’s Miss Soweto pageant was made perfectly clear right at the outset of the event. Opening the proceedings in the Standard Bank Arena last Saturday was none other than local pop […]
David Shpashak So how do you go about getting a new phone? Find out from your service provider what deals they are offering. Because you already have a subscriber identification module (SIM) card and the reconnection fee is absorbed by the networks, you won’t have to pay for either of these otherwise hidden costs of […]
Wealthy and successful South African women are taking their place in the business world, writes Ferial Haffajee Meet the uptown girls … if you can get an appointment. Everybody’s clamouring to wine and dine Hazel Ralefeta, Wendy Luhabe, Salukazi Dakile-Hlongwane and their friends. If you don’t know the names, get to know them fast. These […]
South Africa’s economic fortune may once have been built on gold, but nowadays an ill-timed investment in the metal might just lead to economic ruin. Gold-board shares have recently become among the most volatile of choices, a victim of an erratic international gold price. But there are believers who claim there is money to be […]
Mungo Soggot An illegal investment company that preyed on elderly people has been taken over by the Reserve Bank, amid reports that the collapsed scheme’s mastermind has fled to Beirut with tens of millions of rands. The scheme, Proplace, promised many of its customers a monthly income. Many of them depended on this, after investing […]
Tangeni Amupadhi The National Youth Commission has declared 1998 a year of delivery after two years of talk-shops and much fuss about the salary of its chair. For the youth of South Africa, however, the commission is doing too little, too slowly. Random interviews conducted with youth this week revealed high levels of impatience with […]
Right to Reply NSGMinerals (Pty)Ltd: We refer to your article “De Beers took my mine” (June 5 to 11). Most of the facts in that article are mis-stated and misleading. Our intervention over Marsfontein was certainly not an attempt to “wrest control of the mining rights from SouthernEra” – SouthernEra has never had ownership of […]
Olivia Strange Pursuits Sorry, chaps. Although it’s definitely your province, you’re worse at it than we are. Women, that is, and fly fishing. “Their timing is so much better. They’re relaxed about it and don’t become panicked or competitive,” says Mark Eardley, compleat fly fisherman and instructor at the Footloose Trout Farm just outside Johannesburg. […]