Andrew Muchineripi Analysis The appointment of a new national coach and a four-year plan leading to the 2002 World Cup must be the immediate priorities of the South African Football Association (Safa). Never again must the pride of the nation have three coaches in four months and never again must preparations be so chaotic as […]
Mungo Soggot Penuell Maduna’s efforts to distance himself from Liberian consultant Emanuel Shaw II have been undermined by testimony from his own confidant at the state oil company. The minister of minerals and energy’s main contact at the company, Brian Casey, has given Public Protector Selby Baqwa’s inquiry into the Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF) detailed […]
Maureen Freely: A SECOND LOOK As anyone who has ever tried to join it can tell you, the Mile High Club is not all it’s cracked up to be. It’s almost impossible to get into position without letting at least one fellow passenger in on the secret. You have to be prepared to stop writhing, […]
Donna Block After years of fat margins and record profits, South African banks are now crying poverty. In the wake of the recent volatility in the worlds financial markets, commercial banks have seen their profits squeezed by a plunging rand and the Reserve Banks desperate attempts to stave off international speculators by hiking the repo […]
Tony Twine A tailpiece to a news bulletin a few years ago reported that a young child had lost his first milk tooth and had been instructed on how to liquidate his asset via the tooth fairy market. Much to his delight, the tooth disappeared overnight, to be replaced by a shining R5 coin it […]
Adam Haupt On show in Cape Town Schisstrrer Saves the Planet! takes its audience into the Willoughby world of schizophrenia. The show is framed by Guy Willoughbys familiar character, Major Schisstirrer. The retired and decidedly demented South African Defence Force character arrives to pitch his right-wing security plan, Bloed Rivier. This time he proposes the […]
madness’ As a falling yen caused stock market ripples, famous economist John Kenneth Galbraith, approaching 90, speaks to Ben Laurance and William Keegan Let’s start with Japan. What do you see as the medium-term and long-term game? Japan is still in the aftermath of one of the great speculative episodes of our time – both […]
Richard Tomlinson outlines a truly African scenario for Johannesburg in the 21st century Mayivuke, an inner-city vision and development strategy for Johannesburg, was launched with fanfare and great expectations a year ago. But its vision was vague and unrealistic, probably because it was not underpinned by an examination of economic and social trends. Business leaders […]
Robert Kirby: Loose Cannon As the Cold War faltered and ended, the civilised world breathed a sigh of cautious relief. At incredible expense in lives and hope, rampant socialism had been put back in its box. Before that it had been Hitler, just as expensive to crate and pack away. And so the list goes […]
Shaun de Waal BEELTENIS VERBODE by Hennie Aucamp (Human &Rousseau, R79,95) In this book, Hennie Aucamp, one of the leading prose-writers in Afrikaans, collects his reviews, done mostly for the magazine De Kat, of what he calls following the Dutch egodokumente. By that he means biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, collections of letters. Almost all the subjects […]