Nicoli Nattrass It is economically illiterate and shockingly ill-informed to argue that we cannot afford to give pregnant women AZT. This is apparent from the most basic cost-benefit analysis. Taking the narrowest possible approach, the government simply has to ask whether the cost of administering AZT is more or less than the costs of treating […]

A new television series will put figures from South Africa’s past on trial. Matthew Krouse reports Santarama Miniland, on the shores of Wemmer Pan dam, is an unexpected setting for a historical television drama of high integrity. A mammoth Gulliver hovers over tiny replicas of apartheid-era monuments, rekindling memories of brainwashing school outings. Shored up […]

Anthony Holiday: OVER A BARREL Two terms in our current political lexicon are in urgent need of clarification. They are, of course, racialism and liberalism. The former refers to the gravest of matters, having to do with virtually everything the struggle for national liberation aimed to eliminate. However, it is now invariably an epithet, used […]

SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.30pm. IT was an “utterly miserable” day on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange as it shook off the sleepy mode of late and headed into a free-fall that saw just under 5% shaved off the market value. Dealers were largely bracing for a downturn on Tuesday morning after Wall Street’s two […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 7.00pm. ERNIE ELS, Tiger Woods and last year’s winner Nick Price will make their appearance as favourites at the Sun City Million Dollar Golf challenge which starts on Thursday. The three are part of the competition’s strongest-ever field, which includes six of the top seven players in the world. Woods, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 7.00pm. ENGLISH flyhalf Mike Catt will not be asked to take any place kicks against the Springboks on Saturday, after he missed what would have been a match winning conversion against Australia last weekend, the English rugby camp said on Wednesday. The South African-born player, who replaced the injured Paul […]

SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.00pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange, pining of late for some positive domestic data, largely ignored an early Christmas present by the Reserve Bank in the form of a significant drop in the repo rate on Wednesday. The market closed almost flat, with the all share index a negligible four points […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Tuesday 9.20am. SPRINGBOK rugby coach Nick Mallett believes that if his team can set a world record of 18 consecutive Test wins with victory over England on Saturday, the landmark will stand for ever. The Springboks equalled New Zealand’s record of 17 triumphs, set over four years from 1967, when Mallett’s […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.00pm. Life assurance giant Sanlam’s listing dominated trading on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange early on Monday, opening at 600 cents a share and closing one cents down at 599c. Turnover in Sanlam shares was close to R200-million, representing half the JSE’s turnover early Monday, analysts said. The life assurance company […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 11.00pm. AN unbeaten 57 by Jacques Kallis guided South Africa to a four wicket win over the West Indies on the final day of the first Test at the Wanderers on Monday — their first test win over the tourists since they returned to international cricket. Kallis, who made 53 […]