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/ 13 February 1998
fiction Jeremy Cronin: Crossfire During the past months there has been kite- flying around the idea of a merger between the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party. Peter Mokaba, in the flurry of interventions he made prior to the ANC annual conference in December, punted the idea. The IFP’s Mangosuthu Buthelezi slapped down […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Nic Turner Despite their potential to cause chaos in computer systems, the majority of South African hackers are driven, like their counterparts around the world, by a passion for programming rather than the desire to cause malicious damage. The hacking scene in South Africa is disparate and fragmented, confined to white suburbia and small platteland […]
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/ 13 February 1998
bias Ann Eveleth Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Kader Asmal undertook this week to launch an inquiry into allegations that building consortium Group Five refused to consider highly qualified candidates for senior posts because they were black or female. Executive recruitment firm Dick Muller CC blew the whistle on the construction, engineering and works […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Gino Rossi: Share World As the Asian economic turmoil abates, South African financial markets are again speculating about the possibility of an interest-rate cut. For the past three weeks the rumour mill has been spinning at a fast pace, particularly on Fridays when the South African Reserve Bank usually makes announcements about cuts in the […]
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/ 13 February 1998
FRIDAY, 12.00NOON: SOUTH Africa’s Wayne Ferreira continued his revival at the Dubai Open on Thursday with a tense and hard-fought second-round victory over powerful New Zealander Brett Steven. World No 50 Steven got the match off to a cracking start, conceding only three points on serve and breaking Ferreira twice in the first set. But […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Incentive schemes are big business, writes Belinda Beresford It’s nice to be wanted. It’s even nicer if your desirability is displayed in a concrete way, say by an exclusive lounge at the airport, special discounts on purchases, a bigger company car or even the odd little gift. Motivating people to do what you want is […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Playwright Paul Slabolepszy has had 22 plays staged in almost as many years. So why, asks Charl Blignaut, does he have to impersonate Naas Botha at rugby matches to pay the bills? ‘All I actually want to do is stay home at the computer and write,” says Paul Slabolepszy once we have settled in as […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Andy Duffy The man responsible for controlling student debt at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) was tied to a bizarre contract for most of last year, which gave students the power to oust him. Student debt had more than doubled to R60- million, steering UWC toward bankruptcy, by the time Professor Ikey van […]
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/ 13 February 1998
The other day my whole family clustered around the square screen in our lounge watching Bafana Bafana getting beaten again. This sorry saga was brightened when my 10- year-old son took a snapshot of Lucas Radebe, then split the screen to show live action on one side and the close-up of the captain on the […]
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/ 13 February 1998
trade Comment The Asian crisis has given greater urgency to the debate over the social dimension of global trade. While the region was booming, complaints about the neglect of minimum labour standards could be brushed aside as a covert assertion of Western protectionism. It was hard to query an economic miracle even if a few […]