Stefaans Brmmer and Ann Eveleth An extraordinary legal battle reaching to the office of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki is set to reach a climax in the Johannesburg High Court next week when ousted Zairean dictator Mobutu Sese Seko’s military elite demand continued safe haven in South Africa. The court hearing follows months of legal wrangling, […]

Maria McCloy The multi-media revolution hit Khayelitsha in July 1997. That’s when a colourful tower came up, built by Rainbow Nation Community Towers Project. It’s a tower with a difference and it broadcasts programmes as varied as soccer matches, news, the DStv music show Channel O, SABC and M-Net as well as educational videos and […]

Computer crime costs South Africa more money than heists and robberies, yet there is no law against hacking, writes David Shapshak South Africa lost an estimated R326-million to computer crime last year, more money than in robberies or violent cash-in-transit heists, according to police statistics released this week. And police are expecting an increase in […]

trade Comment The Asian crisis has given greater urgency to the debate over the social dimension of global trade. While the region was booming, complaints about the neglect of minimum labour standards could be brushed aside as a covert assertion of Western protectionism. It was hard to query an economic miracle even if a few […]

Andy Duffy The man responsible for controlling student debt at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) was tied to a bizarre contract for most of last year, which gave students the power to oust him. Student debt had more than doubled to R60- million, steering UWC toward bankruptcy, by the time Professor Ikey van […]

Ronald Suresh Roberts: A Second Look If the dictum that politicians are guilty until proven innocent were applied even- handedly to government and opposition alike, the Democratic Party’s pamphlet, The Death of the Rainbow Nation, could hardly have sailed so smoothly through the Mail & Guardian (”DP takes offensive on race”, February 6 to 12). […]

The other day my whole family clustered around the square screen in our lounge watching Bafana Bafana getting beaten again. This sorry saga was brightened when my 10- year-old son took a snapshot of Lucas Radebe, then split the screen to show live action on one side and the close-up of the captain on the […]

THURSDAY, 1.45PM: SOUTH Africa played India to a crushing 5-0 defeat in the tri-nations women’s hockey match in Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday night. South Africa dominated the match from the opening whistle — despite Indian coach Balbir Singh’s complaints over biased umpiring after the match — notching up a decisive corner count of 9-3. During the […]

WEDNESDAY, 4.30PM: MULTICHOICE Industrial Holdings (MIHH) on Wednesday announced it is to hive off its Internet business, M-Web Holdings, as a separate company, which will then be listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The company said M-Web will be capitalised to the tune of R550-million — R350-million through a renounceable rights offer to MIHH ordinary […]

THURSDAY, 12.45PM: IRON and steel producer Iscor expects a profitable first half after posting a net attributable loss of R633-million last year. The rise in earnings is credited to a reborn steel division, which was handicapped last year by production problems at its Vanderbijlpark plant, and by losses at the Pretoria works, the closure of […]