Critical Consumer Pat Sidley IT IS a commonly held view that South African consumers are ignorant, apathetic and don’t stand up for themselves. There is good reason for thinking this at times — particularly when well-educated, well-heeled consumers who know the ropes of life don’t take up the challenge of bad service, sue for medical […]

Bafana Khumalo WHAT the bloody hell am I doing here? I am on an Air Force base tarmac and am about to catch a cold from the rain that has been building up from a gentle drizzle to a serious body-drenching downpour. “Well, I am doing Gallagher and thereafter I don’t think that I am […]

New evidence has surfaced suggesting links between Armscor and Ulster loyalist paramilitaries, reports Stefaans Brummer Top South African lawyers returned this week from Belfast in Northern Ireland with fresh evidence of collusion between Armscor and Ulster paramiliary groups. Now the Cameron Commission, which is investigating irregular Armscor deals, will be asked to extend its probe […]

Louise Flanagan Although Ernst Penzhorn and some of his partners at the prestigious Pretoria law firm where he worked at the time, MacRobert De Villiers Lunnon and Tindall, have registered several front companies for MI, both the military and Penzhorn deny he worked for Military Intelligence (MI) Information published at the time of the Harms […]

Gauteng is cheesed off at its slice of the national=20 revenue pie. Reg Rumney reports The Gauteng government may have to find R1,2-billion this=20 year to get its sums right. That is the shortfall between=20 the money Gauteng will get from the central government=20 and its own revenue and spending.=20 It might have to borrow […]

Moveable Feast Marino Corazza IN time I’ll have the guts to rip Africa out of my heart.=20 I have this strange romantic notion that I’ll retire in=20 Sardinia. Not as the Aga Khan’s neighbour on the Costa=20 Smerelda, but at some forgotten spot on the coast,=20 surrounded by silver granite, fragrant woods, craggy=20 reefs, emerald-clear […]

Jacques Magliolo Engen has intensified its thrust for exploration and=20 production of oil in West Africa in an attempt to stem=20 declining profits and to rectify a free-falling share=20 The chemical and oil giant’s 1994 financial year saw a=20 13,6 percent drop in earnings per share and its share=20 price has fallen from a 1993 […]

The violence that devastated kwaZulu/Natal in the early Nineties had a sequel in court as KZP members revealed their role in the killings. Ann Eveleth reports PART 1 THE year is 1992. The ANC has been unbanned for almost two years. Political activists have emerged from the underground. Labour union activity is in high gear, […]

PAC President Clarence Makwetu used Sharpeville Day to remind people that nothing much had changed in South Africa. This is an edited version of his speech The day Comrade Mandela was inaugurated in May last year, we watched with interest the fly-past. Here was the South African air force demonstrating its might. Here was the […]

The ANC is being forced to address growing divisions between coloureds and Africans, reports Gaye Davis. Tensions between coloureds and Africans within the ANC in the Western Cape are paralysing the movement and jeopardising its chances of regaining political ground in the local government elections. Western Cape ANC leader Reverend Chris Nissen was to meet […]