Meshack Mabogoane The road to a full-scale market economy in Mozambique=20 is, like peace, “irreversible”, President Joachim=20 Chissano said in Sandton recently when he addressed a=20 special meeting of businesspeople. He said joint ventures for the development of major=20 infrastructure were the “only policy option available”=20 and “we may no longer guarantee the development of […]

An official probe into ivory and rhino horn smuggling has pointed a finger at the South African Defence Force, reports Ann Eveleth The South African Defence Force (SADF) used funds from poached ivory to recover some of the costs of supplying Unita Forces with provisions during South Africa’s secret war with Angola. South African taxpayers […]

The Centre for Applied Legal Studies has produced a draft Bill on prostitution for the Department of Health, reports Rehana Rossouw South Africa’s growing sex industry offers consumers sex in books and magazines, on pornographic videos and over sex chat lines, but the law still prohibits them from buying the real thing. This anomaly should […]

SOCCER: Lungile Madywabe LIKE a child who has been burnt a number of times and=20 has vowed never to touch the fire again, Moroka=20 Swallows coach Walter Da Silva has learnt his lesson=20 well in dealing with National Soccer League teams.=20 In the space of six months he has lost two months’=20 salary because D’Alberton […]

Rowan Callaghan Global investors rate competitive tax rates a=20 surprising fifth behind currency, political stability=20 and infrastructure on a list of criteria to evaluate=20 countries’ suitability for investment devised for Ernst=20 & Young’s Strategic Trends report.=20 A survey of 230 investors was conducted for this year’s=20 report which, for the first time, details world tax=20 […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift THERE is something vaguely intimidating about coming=20 face to face with a living legend, even one as openly=20 receptive to the advances of lesser mortals as cricket=20 great Sir Garfield Sobers. At 59, the hair is greying and the lines demarcating=20 the edges of the mouth more deeply embedded than in his=20 […]

The IBA report will precipitate a rush for satellite=20 television. Neil Bierbaum reports THE rush for satellite television is on. If the=20 Independent Broadcasting Authority reports stands –=20 bringing a two-year wait before South Africa gets a=20 private terrestrial television station — new=20 broadcasters will take to the skies. This is the implication of the […]

Marion Edmunds The Department of Foreign Affairs is to adapt its definition of the ‘family’ to suit the new South Africa. Before 1994, diplomats living in overseas missions recieved certain allowances for their ”dependants” or children. Now Foreign Affairs wants to change the definition of ”dependants” to make it possible to include members of the […]

Marthinus Basson’s production of Cabaret is chic,=20 decadent — and well researched, writes ANDREA VINASSA ‘DIE lewe is nie ‘n cabaret nie,” says dreadlocked=20 stage mechanist Eugene Smith in Capab’s dank canteen.=20 In the beleagured world of ”restructuring” and=20 ”transformation culture”, Smith does the work of three=20 mechanists (operating pulleys for trapeze work and=20 other […]

Duncan Mackay explains how the dash for cash is manipulated by the world’s top athletes A FUNNY thing happened to Moses Kiptanui on his way to winning a third 3 000m steeplechase title in Gothenburg recently. He suddenly slowed down when he realised he might break the world record. “I want to save that for […]