Although the team will be without many of their foreign-based stars, there will still be some tough competition in the Four Nations tournament SOCCER:Lungile Madywabe POLITICAL turmoil in Africa has for a long time undermined the continent’s ability to fullfil its potential in world sport, especially the world’s number one, soccer, and the South African […]

A new type of fraud has hit South Africa’s streets and is on the rise, reports Karen Harverson AUTOMATIC teller machine (ATM) crime in South Africa appears to be the worst in the world and it’s on the increase. Assistant general manager Stuart Grobler of the Council of Southern African Banks (Cosab) says thieves are […]

Discriminatory restaurateurs and club owners will have to watch out for the new Bill of Rights, argues Dennis Davis EQUALITY is a fundamental principle of the interim Constitution and is likely to retain this status in the final Constitution. In similiar fashion to the present Constitution, the draft for the final Constitution provides that, when […]

Bronwen Jones scours the Patent Journal for the latest weird and wonderful inventions THINK of inventions and up flash images of the first steam train, the first telephone, the hovercraft, Post-it pads, Sony’s Walkman — items little or large which have changed our lives. South Africans can take pride because there are great inventors and […]

Rupert Murdoch could become a partner in the SABC’s satellite venture in a deal involving the rights to southern hemisphere rugby. Niel Bierbaum reports THE SABC could be considering media mogul Rupert Murdoch as an international partner for its satellite venture. Such a deal could see the SABC exchanging an ownership share for exclusive rights […]

When will Stals ease up on interest rates and give=20 homeowners a break, asks Reg Rumney Real interest rates _ adjusted for inflation _ in=20 South Africa are punitively high, especially for=20 those buying a new home, but the reaction from=20 economists and the man-in-the-street is curiously=20 muted. The prime rate, the rate banks are […]

Data mining can unleash a gold mine of information=20 from one’s own databases. Leon Perlman reports Unbeknown to many corporates, they’re sitting on a=20 gold mine. Buried deep inside their databases are=20 vast repositories of data patterns that could=20 unlock acres of productivity and millions of rands=20 in revenue. The key to this info labyrinth […]

THEATRE: David Le Page DESCEND to the very lowest level of society, and=20 you are in the perfect position to thrust hard into=20 the softest part of its bloated, pallid underbelly.=20 If you are a playwright named Itumeleng Wa- Lehulere, you will not content yourself with a=20 single thrust of the weapon of words; you’ll […]

My Fleeting Moment with Nelson Mandela (in his=20 absence, of course) THE first time I was in the presence of the man=20 whose influence was to permeate South Africa was in=20 the early 1970s. He was thousands of miles away,=20 but hey, I was in his presence _ in his house in=20 Orlando West, which […]

Reg Rumney First National BANK (FNB) announced bottom-line=20 earnings up almost 23 percent this week at R920- million for the year to end-September. The bank saw strong growth in advances and in non- interest revenues. Those advances were driven=20 mainly by consumer demand. Margins were squeezed, as interest expenditure rose=20 40 percent while interest income […]