Are there any solutions to prevent sophisticated fraud syndicates plundering our credit card accounts? asks Karen Harverson CREDIT cards represent convenience to card holders, big business for banking institutions and increasingly, easy pickings for criminals. Credit card fraud, estimated at millions of dollars a year worldwide, has more than doubled in South Africa this year, […]

Justin Pearce INSURANCE brokers in Johannesburg are advising clients that drivers of luxury cars such as BMWs run the most serious risk of being hijacked. BMW South Africa has in turn accused the insurance industry of giving customers inaccurate information about car hijackings and has called on the police to reveal the truth about which […]

WINNNIE MANDELA will appear in the Witwatersrand Supreme Court today after yesterday’s postponement of her application for leave to appeal against the judgment in the diamonds from Angola, Foster Webb air charter case. The case was postponed because Modise Khoza, the advocate defending Mandela in this case, was in Durban. Mandela is applying for leave […]

FINE ART: Ian Tromp PAINTINGS by Walter Meyer, on view at the Newtown Galleries, freeze moments in Eastman Color eternities, like slightly faded catalogues for holiday destinations called “Home”. Seen from afar, Meyer’s scenes are photo- realist in the rendering of their subject, bordering on coolness in their apparent dispassion. Step nearer, and – as […]

The IFP has renewed its battle cries over the alleged assassination of about 400 party leaders. Ann Eveleth investigates the claims INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi wept last Saturday as he read the political eulogy for the Wembezi funeral of the three Dladla brothers. Gunned down almost three weeks ago on the way to […]

AS rumours multiplied yesterday of the imminent release of Nelson Mandela, the African National Congress in Lusaka said any plan to fly their jailed leader to freedom in another country would be And a representative of the state president’s office in Pretoria said there was absolutely no truth in speculation that an unconditional release of […]

With its huge prize money the Million Dollar can attract top overseas players, but the poorer tournaments on the local tour can’t compete GOLF:Jon Swift THERE IS a feeling of distinct inevitability about the way the professional golf tour in this country is starting to fragment. The Zimbabwean customs holding back golf balls and equipment […]

Joe Slovo describes his relationship with Ruth First, in the second of our series of extracts from his unfinished autobiography WHILE studying for my LLB, I was employed in the offices of Jack Levitan, an attorney. Early in 1948 he sent me to assist advocate Fred Zwarenstein in the defence of the Lefela brothers in […]

THE government in the Eastern Cape, one of South Africa’s most impoverished regions, has started a monthly newspaper with a projected budget of more than R1-million for the next six months. Acting premier Smuts Ngonyama said the Eastern Cape Review, launched in Bisho on Wednesday, would be a vehicle for communication, focusing on development issues. […]

Black is beautiful, but that doesn’t mean local black models are getting assignments, finds Hazel Friedman BLACK might be beautiful and local downright lekker, but in the ramp ‘n vamp world of modeldom, black is black, local is local, and rarely the twain do meet. While most of the white beaus and babes gracing the […]