Julian Drew At the colourful and emotional send-off for the South African Olympic team last Sunday, the Olympic oath was read on behalf of the team by modern pentathlete Claud Cloete. While it is true that Cloete is only in the team courtesy of a wild card granted to athletes from developing countries to ensure […]
The jury is still out on whether the new framework for small business policy can be put into action, writes Aspasia Karras The White Paper on a National Strategy for the Development of Small Business in South Africa, endorsed in March 1995, is finally kicking into life. The national Small Business Act was tabled in […]
The excitement this week over the release of Greg Blank seems to have less to do with the merits, or otherwise, of the parole system than the general sense of frustration in the country over crime and punishment. As Blank himself has complained, he is “white and rich” and as such a ripe target for […]
Lynda Loxton Boland Bank, based in Paarl, has been transformed over the last year from a relatively small, mostly Western Cape bank into a more sophisticated market player serving the country as a whole. Not surprisingly, the process has placed some strain on management and revealed weaknesses in bad-debt control, which it is working hard […]
Angella Johnson The young tracker was apologetic. “You wouldn’t believe it. Last Friday we recovered seven stolen cars, today not one live one.” Cruising at a cool 200km/h about 2 000m above some of Johannesburg’s crime spots, we were on the lookout for two vehicles stolen in the Johannesburg area over the weekend. I had […]
M&G Crime Correspondent Angella Johnson, who spent 10 years working on papers like The Guardian, London Times and Los Angeles Times, finds herself at loggerheads with the SAPS `Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair-trigger balances, when a false, or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift Boy Louw said it best. “Looks for the scoreboards” was his superbly unique and ungrammatical reply to criticism of how the Spingboks played. So it should be with the 43-18 scoreline from this week’s test against Fiji at Loftus Versfeld. This was not an inspired perfomance. But it was a winning one, […]
A huge explosion which injured 70 people in July 1987 and was blamed on `ANC terrorists’ was almost certainly the work of the police. Rehana Rossouw reports A bomb which former state president PW Botha described in July 1987 as a “callous act committed by terrorists under the godless control of criminals” was almost certainly […]
TENNIS: Mick Cleary and Jon Henderson in London THERE is scarcely an inch of the vast Wimbledon complex which is not landscaped with signposts, manned by livery-clad information guides carrying sandwich-boards or outlined in the bulging information brochures. The only thing the authorities forgot to include for the thronging crowd was an explanation of just […]
Jacquie Golding-Duffy A Cape Town-based Muslim community radio station is being hauled before the Independent Broadcasting Authority following an alleged contravention of its licence conditions. Voice of the Cape, which shares air-time with Radio 786, is to appear before the IBA’s Broadcasting Monitoring and Complaints Committee (BMCC) on July 9 for allegedly failing to inform […]