A major Nigerian newspaper group has emerged as one of the four leading bidders in the final round to take control of the 106-year-old South African Central News Agency (CNA), the group said on Wednesday here. This Day newspaper was established about seven years ago and is one of the most influential and widely-read national […]
Don’t be fooled into thinking soccer is just a game. I have to confess that I don’t know much about sport. I was actually thrown out of the three-legged race in primary school for persistently trying to let my partner do all the running. It went downwards from there.
A man with no clothes on is bound to be slippery. When I called Beau Brummell on the cell number at the bottom of his hand-written press release, it took some time for the man himself to come to the phone. The lady who answered politely asked me to hang on while she located him.
George Soros’s understanding of global finance is rivalled only by that of Alan Greenspan. He didn’t exactly look like one of the richest men in the world. In fact, he looked like a wandering Hungarian Jewish refugee of around 1947 — a casual check jacket worn over an unremarkable blue shirt.
The Inkatha Freedom Party has decided to invest in Hypo-Plus, a controversial product that claims to be effective in the treatment of HIV/Aids. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> revealed last week that the ANC’s Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans’ Association was linked to a company involved in marketing Hypo-Plus.
A moratorium on the registration of new children’s homes in Gauteng has forced the Johannesburg Child Welfare Society (JCWS) to come up with innovative ways to help children in need of support.
The inflation outlook for next year has improved significantly, SA Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni said on Tuesday.
The cream of South Africa’s women rugby players will face each other on Friday October 11 at Loftus Versveld in a curtain-raiser match to the Bankfin Currie Cup tussle between the Blue Bulls and
Falcons.
South African gold stocks lost ground at the start on Tuesday after bullion slipped overnight but other miners like Anglo American drew strength from a soft rand and helped to lift the overall bourse.
The IMF is to draw up urgent proposals for a bankruptcy system that will provide crisis-hit countries such as Argentina with the protection. The IMF has been given six months to come up with a blueprint that will provide a mechanism for coping with debt defaults.