WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: RESERVE Bank governor Chris Stals said on Tuesday that a cut in the interest rate before the introduction of the new money market reproduction system on March 9 is unlikely, unless there is a significant change in market conditions. “With the introduction of the repo system the central bank will be forced to […]

WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: THE private sector may soon own police stations and magistrate’s courts if a proposal by investment bank Theta Securities and Property Asset Managers is approved, Business Day reported on Wednesday. Under Theta’s plan police stations and courts will be built and acquired by private sector investors, then rented back to the state, which […]

TUESDAY, 11.30AM: PAUL Adams showed he is still in good form when he destroyed the Eastern Province batting with a haul of six wickets for 90 runs to help Western Province achieve a 123-run Supersport Series victory at Newlands on Monday. Adams’ figures would have been even more impressive, career best in fact, had ‘keeper […]

MONDAY, 12.30PM: HELLENIC beat African Wanderers 3-2 at Kings Park soccer stadium on Sunday to ease their worries of relegation. The defeat further compounded the woes of Wanderers, who are facing serious relegation trouble. Hellenic were 1-2 down at half time, but managed to score twice in the second half without reply before a paltry […]

Lizeka Mda : City Limits It’s no Swiss bank account, nor is it a safe full of jewels. But nevertheless, it is an inheritance. A spot under the Anderson Street overpass off the M2 freeway is Ntombeyiningi Zondi’s inheritance from her mother. Every morning she leans a table against a freeway pillar and sets out […]

In the style of the mystery novel penned via the Internet by John Updike et al, a new competition has been launched with the involvement of South African writer Jann Turner, author of Heartland. At the M-Web site http://www. mweb.co.za/valentine/, Turner has written the opening segment of a Valentine’s Day romance. Web-surfers can add the […]

Success story Netscape posted a loss for the first time and axed 400 jobs last month, reports Mark Tran The trophies on display in the reception area of Netscape Communications testify to one of the most meteoric successes in Silicon Valley. Given by trade magazines, the awards cite Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen, who founded […]

Michael Nurok It is 3am on Sunday and “Dr Davis”, an intern at a Western Cape hospital, has not stopped working since 8am the previous day. He is trying to resuscitate a child who has lost so much blood from an open fracture he is unconscious. Save the overburdened nursing staff, there is no one […]

IN BRIEF SA’S FIRST INTERACTIVE NOVEL ACCLAIMED South African author Jann Turner made literary history in South Africa when she launched the first local interactive Internet novel on Thursday. Turner — author of Heartland– will write the opening scene of a romance called Take Mine Valentine, and visitors will be asked to continue the book, […]

Janet Smith Down the tube Robert Powell’s haunted face is our most abiding cinematic image of Jesus, thanks to Franco Zeffirelli, the same director who said all those disgustingly true things about the public response to Princess Diana’s death last year. Zeffirelli would never perform a vulgar deed, which is why the spare, exquisite features […]