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/ 12 January 2004
In a shocking blow to the local economy, authorities have announced that the petrol price is set to rise by R5,25 a litre in the first week of February. Diesel and household paraffin will rise by R4 and R6 a litre respectively. A contradictory but optimistic forecast for the new year shows how the economy is affected by everything and nothing at all.
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/ 12 January 2004
ARIES (Mar 21 to Apr 19) You might find your limited cognitive faculties stretched to their limits. Try not to think, except about why the president is still making promises about anything. Famous Arian: Professor Spike Bhulalamlunghu, Shangaan soothsayer, who claims to be inventor of the toyi-toyi. TAURUS (Apr 20 to May 20) Expect a […]
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/ 12 January 2004
Research recently undertaken at the University of North Edmonton in Canada has been published to some controversy in a doctoral thesis entitled Causative Social Metaphors of Male Shaving Habits. The thesis exposes and analyses what it terms “shaving behavioural patterns”, formulated from about 700 observations over three years.
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/ 12 January 2004
The as yet unsubstantiated rumours that the so-called Old National Party is to be revived will be welcomed by those South Africans who believe that a return to “old values and standards” is not only urgently necessary, but something of a moral imperative as well. Despite the obvious misgivings, this newspaper has to agree.
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/ 12 January 2004
There is much to be said for the movement under way among leading South African media players to make plagiarism not only an acceptable practice in local journalism, but to ensure that it is also legal.
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/ 12 January 2004
"The best years of my life have fled from me. From this day forward I vow to adopt a more relaxed approach towards social intercourse and to take the whole idea of fun more seriously." Robert Kirby is away this week, recovering from an overdose of Christamastide benevolence. Not the Mail & Guardian fills the space with a guest piece from one of South Africa’s most gifted writers, Darrel Bisto-Gravy.
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/ 12 January 2004
A glance around the Jock and Saddle pub gives a telling glimpse of the uneasy path that Zimbabweans are treading towards racial integration. Although an exclusively white club at first, the Saddle’s fairer are seated, demurely, at one side of the horseshoe-shaped bar. On the opposite side blacks — nouveau riche farmers, traders and young professionals — cluster around their drinks.
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/ 12 January 2004
The sale of Old Mutual’s 53% stake in ailing Nedcor looks very probable — if the price is right. Last week the two parties reacted to media speculation by refusing to comment
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/ 12 January 2004
It is high noon for the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act. By late next month, the financial sector faces its first watershed in the implementation of the Act. At the end of the implementation process, the Act’s requirements will result in better qualified financial advisers, to the benefit of consumers.
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/ 12 January 2004
Extraordinary new medical research indicates that in the future men will be able to conceive and carry their own babies. With minor microbiological “tuning” the male body is apparently quite capable of carrying, nourishing and bringing to full term a perfectly healthy infant.