Rumours of the demise of the financial rand system are greatly exaggerated, reports Duma Gqubule A RESERVE BANK masterplan has caused currency speculators to burn their fingers and lose billions of rands betting against the rand over the past couple of months. Governor Chris Stals this week laughed at speculators who had put wagers on […]

More and more foreign coaches and players are plying their trade in South Africa, and this can only be good for the game RUGBY: Barney Spender THERE was a Welshman, a Frenchman, a Kiwi and a Pom … It’s an old tale and usually the prelude to a particularly dreary shaggy dog story but, with […]

Louise Flanagan ANYONE can make it in the new South Africa. The East London Small Business Development Corporation and the Institute of Marketing Management yesterday presented its Emergent Entrepreneur award to former Military Intelligence agent Basie Oosthuysen, who currently runs a sewing school for unemployed people. Oosthuysens previous business experience was in running an educational […]

It’s simple: increases in productivity must come before higher increases in wages, argues Reg Rumney JAPANESE productivity expert Professor Anatole Goshi tells a wry story to emphasise the importance of productivity growth. An American and a Japanese tourist were on a walking safari in one of our game parks when they spotted a lion in […]

Weekly Mail Reporter POLICE say they are planning more raids on vice clubs after they swooped on a Johannesburg hotel last week, but acknowledge that they are more tolerant than in the past. Club Caligula at Hillbrows Dorchester Hotel was raided by the Narcotics Bureau and other police units last Thursday. Three Zambian and three […]

Jacques Magliolo THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s tougher attitude in cleaning up our bourse is becoming more evident in the number of companies being delisted and suspended from trading. Between June 1993 and June this year 30 companies were taken off the JSE boards and a host of others could face a similar fate. In addition […]

The alleged Station Strangler has already been tried and convicted by the NP, the media and the public, writes Justin Pearce THE man outside the magistrates court wasnt going to wait for a verdict. With the words Ek sal jou vrek doodmaak (Ill kill you dead), he pronounced his own sentence on Norman Afzal Simons, […]

Jan Taljaard reports on this weeks bizarre Pretoria murder trial of two young white supremacists IT had all the ingredients of a larger-than-life suspense thriller: a gang of youthful revolutionaries; a two-month crime spree which veered between arms thefts from military bases and cold-blooded murders in which people were slaughtered like sheep; a car chase […]

CRICKET: Luke Alfred UP AND down Blighty recently could be heard the waffle of the chattering classes: “Will Gatting go?” they asked; “What about Robin Smith?” someone mused; “Is Angus Fraser really up to it?” Everyone, of course, was referring to the composition of the England cricket side to tour Australia later in the year. […]

Tokyo Sexwale, PWV premier, replies to criticism of his attack on the press YOU strike a journalist, you strike a rock. Journalists are understandably touchy about their freedom to express themselves. Politicians, too, are touchy about attempts at character assassination and dissemination of disinformation. Lets put a few things on record: * A democratic media […]