Life assurers are honing their strategies in order to capture the multi-billion rand funeral business, reports Jacques Magliolo How big is the funeral business? Big enough for the life assurers to fight tooth and nail for it. Financial Services Board long term insurance manager Oppie Opperman says: “In 1993 total premium received by the life […]

ELANA MEYER will use tomorrow’s Old Mutual ASA international half marathon challenge in Cape Town to sharpen up for April’s Boston Marathon. The challenge is part of the Cape Town marathon and half marathon which features teams of two men and two women from Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia and Zimbabwe as well as the South African […]

Inge Ruigrok A SHIP loaded with deadly nuclear waste, including weapons-grade plutonium, may sail through South African waters on its way from France to Japan within the next two weeks. The Cape Town-base Environment Monitoring Group has urgently appealed to the government to notify the Japanese government of South Africa’s formal opposition to these shipments […]

Shadley Nash in Port Elizabeth A reward has been offered for the return of Port Alfred’s mayoral solid silver chain of office, valued at R10 000. Former taxi driver Gordon Bavuma, recently elected as the chairperson of the Port Alfred Transitional Local Council, now has the dubious distinction of being the first “mayor” since the […]

Shadley Nash in Port Elizabeth South Africa’s judicial profession was still a divided and conservative one, said Cecil Somyalo, the country’s first attorney to be permanently appointed a judge in the Supreme Court. In an interview on following his appointment by President Nelson Mandela on Tuesday, Judge Somyalo said his appointment signalled a big break […]

The finance minister and the Reserve Bank governor agree on discipline, so prepare to tighten your belts. Reg Rumney reports. Finance Minister Chris Liebenberg said this week that both fiscal and monetary policy were still not strict enough for sustainable growth. Later, Reserve Bank Governor Chris Stals, also speaking at the eighteenth Frankel Pollak Vinderine […]

Justin Pearce SOUTH AFRICA’S non-govermental organisation (NGO) community is reeling from the shockwaves of the allegations of theft and fraud made against Dr Allan Boesak’s Foundation for Peace and Justice (FPJ). Last week’s revelations of the scale on which money disappeared undetected from the FPJ have prompted NGO trustees to re-examine their roles and duties […]

Perennial rivals Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates are heading for a Top 8 final clash, but their semifinal opponents have other ideas SOCCER: Clinton Asary IT is the ideal semifinal draw for a cup competition, the one soccer administrators and sponsors dream about, thus adding fuel to allegations that the draw for the BP Top […]

Gaye Davis HARD questions will be asked at next weekend’s meeting of the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) in the wake of repeated scandals shaking the movement and the crisis wracking its Women’s League. The concern goes beyond the impact on the ANC’s image within South Africa and abroad. “It goes to the heart of […]

More claims of hit squads have come from Albert Luthuli’s grandson, until recently a senior IFP military leader, write Enoch Mthembu and Eddie Koch DALUXOLO LUTHULI, Inkatha’s top para-military commander, has entered a state witness protection programme and made shock allegations about IFP hit squads. Luthuli, who described himself as chief-of-staff of the IFP’s “military […]