Tom Quoin : Architecture Our deurmekaar country is filled with maddening contrasts. None more stomach- churning than the bald differences between the spacious settings in which planners and politicians live and the crushed layouts they’ve dumped on most of their fellow citizens. Though each rises on the same scattered suburban pattern — single plots for […]

Mukoni T Ratshitanga The 35 000-strong South African Agricultural Plantation and Allied Workers’ Union, which represents farm workers, will meet its Mozambican counterpart later this month to deal with the exploitation of alien labour in South Africa. The union’s general secretary, Dickson Motha, this week said they aim “to develop a common strategy on how […]

“White Witchdoctor” in the hot seat Although his appointment as South Africa’s national soccer team’s full-time coach was greeted with mixed feelings by the football fraternity, Frenchman Philippe Troussier is adamant that he can do a good job. Troussier was appointed last Saturday as the man to succeed Clive Barker and lead Bafana Bafana to […]

FRIDAY 12.00NOON: TWO men believed to be members of the hijacking gang suspected of murdering two couples in Cape Town last week were shot dead at a police roadblock on Thursday. Following the arrest of two suspects in the case, police received information that two further suspects intended fleeing the Western Cape in a bakkie […]

Anglo American and its associated companies are facing a $3-billion lawsuit in the United States after allegations that it “interfered” in a tender already awarded to another mining company in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s fabulously rich copper belt. On Wednesday, the Arkansas-based junior mining company America Mineral Fields (AMF) filed the damages suit against […]

The Market’s new play is set in the Big Top, without words — just the sound of a violin. Janet Smith spoke to star Sue Pam- Grant When you’re a kid, you don’t notice the inevitable mud that accompanies a circus because some soft adult is lugging you through the brown slush towards the glitter […]

FRIDAY, 4.30PM: SRI Lankan spinning pair Muttiah Murilitharan and Jayanatha Silva on Friday ripped apart the Zimbabwe batting in the first Test, keeping the visitors to a paltry 140 runs. This leaves the Zimbabweans with a deficit total of 329 runs. The woes of the Zimbabweans did not end, however, and at the close of […]

THURSDAY, 12.30PM: WORLDWIDE demand for gold rose 16% last year as falling prices led to a higher demand for gold in jewellery, electronics and coin production. Total demand rose to 4 025 tons from the 1996 figure of 3 477 tons. The rise, however, was offset by record sales of above-ground gold by central banks, […]

When Evelyn Groenink set out to investigate the murder of Dulcie September, she found herself embroiled in a Kafkaesque world full of French secret service plots and fake publications In March 1990, while investigating Dulcie September’s workplace for the period just prior to her murder, I discovered something odd. The small company across the hallway […]