Ann Eveleth Gauteng residents will have a “legal obligation” to care for their elderly parents, and could face fines of up to R50 000 or up to five years’ imprisonment if they are found to be “negligent”. This is one of the proposals of the Securing the Future for Gauteng’s Elderly Bill – one of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 3.00PM. POLICE raided six computer retailers in Durban and Cape Town this week, uncovering counterfeit software — mainly sourced from Asia — worth R4,5 million. Attorney Marco van der Merwe, who acts for the Business Software Alliance, said on Friday: “This was a very sophisticated counterfeit product. It would […]
Mungo Soggot A respected arms expert, who was finance director for a South African company implicated in a massive weapons smuggling case in the United States, has been picked to run Armscor. Llewellyn Swan, who started as managing director of the weapons procurement company last week, has worked in the local arms industry for 22 […]
Karen Jackman A new computer game designed to make Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution fun for biology students has earned an international award for its South African inventor. For the average 18-year-old, stepping into a new life as a university student does not involve donning a biohazard suit, digging up the missing link or tracking […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer Premier Soccer League chief executive officer Trevor Phillips has tried and failed to reduce the size of the 18- club Castle Premiership, the richest national championship in Africa. This week, his South African Football Association counterpart, Danny Jordaan, tackled the same problem from a different angle, proposing that his organisation buy two […]
Nicci Gerrard First Person Things aren’t just discovered. They have to be needed as well. The Vikings reached America long before Columbus. But the Vikings had no use for America, the way that the Spanish Empire did. And there are other more intimate kinds of discovery. When John Donne wrote of: O my America, my […]
operatives 1996 Nobel Peace Prize winner Jos Ramos Horta has come out in support of Robert McBride, writes Wally Mbhele Documents presented to Mozambique’s Supreme Court by Robert McBride’s defence counsel allege that senior Mozambican police and military officers are involved in smuggling guns into South Africa. One of the two state witnesses, Alexandra Uamba […]
Tangeni Amupadhi A string of extraordinary coincidences surrounds the death of Josiah ”Fingers” Rabotapi, one of South Africa’s most industrious criminals, who was shot dead by police in a Sandown flat on Tuesday. Black officers charged with tracking Rabotapi – who was on the run after escaping from custody – were sent to search for […]
Chris Roper On show in Cape Town The listing for this exhibition in the Mail & Guardian last week read ”Four Durban artists”, without their names. It’s a space-saving ploy, but it also says a lot about the way we Capetonians conceptualise the foreigners in our midst, as if they’re some kind of homogeneous group […]
money Michael Metelits One of the more puzzling, and confusing, ideas in finance is the notion of a money market. But money markets are actually relatively simple, and form a key part of a diversified investment portfolio. When you borrow money, you are ”buying” money now in exchange for money in the future. The ”price” […]