Gaye Davis SHE knew George Biggs (38) well — he was like a brother to her. Gavin Adriaanse (30) she’d only just met when she went with them to drop off a friend, taking along her sister’s child, who she was babysitting. When they didn’t take her home immediately, saying they first wanted to visit […]

Swapo is likely to win a good majority in the Namibian elections despite disclosures of government spending on aircraft NAMIBIAN President Sam Nujoma’s election standing has been damaged by revelations that he is splurging on purchases of aircraft, including an executive jet. However most commentators believe the disclosures will not be enough to prevent Nujoma’s […]

COUNTRIES listed in the 1989 version of Log 17 are as follows. Group Three (sales prohibited): Zambia, Zimbabwe and Tanzania as well as Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Kampuchea (a note states this depended on “the course of peace negotiations”), Laos, Libya, Mongolia, Syria, South Yemen, Nicaragua, North Korea, Vietnam and Russia. Group […]

After his successful comeback at Sun City last week Brian Mitchell is aiming for a title fight BOXING: Drew Forrest UNLOVABLY arrogant he may be, but Brian Mitchell showed he had lost little of his two-fisted magic after a three-year layoff at the Sun City Superbowl last Saturday. Beefier, harder-hitting but marginally slower than when […]

The cabinet is split over whether South Africa should send troops to Angola, reports Eddie Koch THE bells that toll for peace in Angola have struck a note of discord in Nelson Mandela’s government. The president — faced with stiff resistance from opposition parties to United Nations requests for troops to help hold the ceasefire […]

Media and Marketing Clive Simpkins MARKET-SHARE greed versus service standards calls for scrutiny in the cellular telephone industry. I was advised by an overseas cellular guru that on the launch of cellular services, the existing telephone network operator is usually in a better technical position for the first year or so. It is then typically […]

What spurred last week’s panic attack at the JSE and what should investors do to prevent future losses? Jacques Magliolo reports BEARS had a field day last week when the Johannesburg Stock Exchange overall index fell a mere 100 points. No sooner had the index fallen in line with Wall Street — on the back […]

You want a Monet, but can’t afford to pay the price? No problem, says the self-styled queen of fakes. She spoke to Hazel Friedman DEONA VAN VUUREN is disarmingly honest. She calls a spade a spade. Which is pretty impressive given the fact that, in her line of work, spades often pass for spoons, and […]

The government’s affirmative action policy is cruel, heartless and immoral, argues Martin Brassey. Why are its victims so silent? OFFICIAL job reservation, scrapped in 1987, was reintroduced to South Africa a fortnight ago. Yet not a word has been said in protest. Where once the policy provoked uproar, now it evokes mere silence. Silence from […]

The release this week of Natural Born Killers raises the question of whether violent films encourage violence in real life and should be censored. They don’t and they shouldn’t, argues Shaun de Waal (also see film review below) OLIVER STONE’S film about a pair of casual serial murderers, Natural Born Killers, opens in South Africa […]