Lesley Cowling Buying yourself that coveted car, boat or string of pearls might seem a simple transaction: you pay the money, you get the goods. But unless you conduct business like a television drug deal (slide over the suitcase of money and I’ll throw you the cocaine), you may find yourself out of pocket. What […]
Kevin Mitchell Gay Games Nothing really prepares you for the Gay Games. Certainly not 47 years of heterosexuality or a month on the testosterone circuit known as the World Cup. If there is another place on God’s earth where 15E000 of his creations are as nice to each other at one time, it was not […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 9.40PM. SOUTH Africa’s seamers did the trick on the first day of the series-deciding fifth cricket Test at Headingley, dismissing the home side for 230 runs. English opener Mark Butcher was, in fact, the only English bat who really worried the South Africans, as he played a stirling career-best innings […]
SARAH BULLEN in Johannesburg | Wednesday 4.00pm. BUSINESS confidence dropped by 1,9 index points to 90,3 in July from 92,2 in June, largely as a result of the country’s increasing net open forward position and the vulnerability of the balance of payments, the latest South African Chamber of Business Confidence Index released on Wednesday indicates. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg| Wednesday 4.30pm. THE South African Broadcasting Corporation is expected next week to announce a surplus of over R100-million in its end-of-year financial results, outgoing chief executive Zwelakhe Sisulu said at a function in Johannesburg on Wednesday. “We no longer have an identification crisis … The SABC is poised to enter the next […]
CHRISTIAN FIGENSCHOU, Johannesburg | Thursday 4.00pm. IT emerged in the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday that more than 1000 policemen have been murdered in South Africa since 1994. Meanwhile, the South African Agricultural Union published statistics that show there were more than 2000 attacks on farmers, in which more than 500 farmers were murdered over […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 12.15pm. OFFICIALS in the department of mineral and energy affairs on Thursday said they will urge Minerals and Energy Minister Penuell Maduna to ask government to intervene in the four-day-old chemical industry strike. Department Director General Gordon Sibya said: “We believe government has a duty to consider acting as a […]
TRISH MURPHY, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.00PM. A TEAM of United States military personnel is in Rwanda, according to a report confirmed by the Pentagon. The 12 soldiers, part of an “assessment team”, were seen in the vicinity of the Gisenyi border post, which is close to Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Goma was […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 11.00PM. ONE woman has died and another is seriously injured after a bomb exploded at the Salus building in Belleville, near Cape Town on Thursday. The building houses the police special task unit investigating violence associated with the vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs. A Pagad member arrested […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Windhoek | Thursday 9.00pm. ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba has accused Unita rebels in Angola of defying the 1994 peace accords signed in Lusaka in an attempt to end 16 years of civil war. Chiluba appealed to Unita on Wednesday night to support current United Nations mediation to restore peace in the Southern African […]