Stefaans BrUmmer TRANSVAAL Attorney General Jan D’Oliveira will go ahead with plans to charge some of the 22 policemen who approached the Truth and Reconciliation Commission this week, saying their offer to co- operate with the truth body may “well be” an attempt to pre-empt prosecution. D’Oliveira confirmed there was a “significant overlap” between the […]

The banks may yet repent if money market stability does not hold, writes Madeleine Wackernagel A volatile interest rate climate is not conducive to long-term investment planning, either by individuals or big business. And while the surprise rate cut by Amalgamated Banks of South Africa (Absa) this week — closely followed by the other leading […]

born Jon Henderson recalls the birth of the tie-break, reviled by many as vandalism but the flashpoint for an epic battle MANY of us saw it as a nasty American innovation, others regarded it simply as gratuitous tinkering with an exquisite scoring system, while few, as I recall, spoke up for it. Twenty-five years ago […]

Marion Edmunds THE Labour Market Commission has recommended that the Home Affairs Department relax its immigration selection policy to allow more skilled foreigners to settle and work in South Africa. And in its report, released by the government last week, the commission recommends that immigration policy be overhauled completely to suit the economic and social […]

Worcester residents had widely different opinions of the truth commission which visited their town this week. Marion Edmunds reports DOWN at the Brandwacht Hotel, in the saloon bar, a Worcester prison warder sat glowering over his brandy and coke. It had been a pleasant enough afternoon, until two journalists had come in for a drink […]

The Wall may have fallen, but Germany has yet to resolve its post-war economic problems. David Gow reports from Bonn The German social market economy, engine of the country’s post-war renaissance, may have run out of steam well before the fall of the Wall, but the political battle to preserve its soul is only now […]

Mungo Soggot IN a bid to become more transparent and accountable, Transnet has appointed three ombudsmen to handle complaints from employees, customers and business partners. They are chairman Louise Tager, general manager of auditing Nigel Payne and non-executive director Magamola Nana. Tager this week dismissed the suggestion that the appointment of three top company officials […]

Patrick Bond MEXICO’S southeastern mountains and valleys still occasionally resonate with the sounds of gunfire and poetry, as they did on January 1 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect and the Zapatista peasant army temporarily took control of dozens of towns in the state of Chiapas. But next month […]

Mungo Soggot An extraordinary legal decision involving a controversial lawyer lies behind the case of acid- burn victim Bernadette Gibson, which has provoked an uproar over damages awards by the supreme court. The attorney who represented Gibson, Peter Soller, is an unrehabilitated insolvent who specialises in championing the causes of victims of medical negligence. She […]

MINISTRY of Sound opened the doors of its London nightclub in 1991, at the height of the rave explosion. Granted the UK’s first 24-hour music and dance licence, it has developed into a multi- faceted, award-winning centre for dance and club culture, spreading its name through pioneering projects and aggressive — sometimes terrorist- style — […]