Nona Cummings Body Language The well-brought up ladies of Jane Austen’s novels did it. Anna Nicole, all size 42-DD of her, did it. The royal families of Europe have always done it. Larry Fortensky gave up a happy life of hauling tonnage on United States roads to do it. Scarlett O’Hara stabbed her own sister […]

Ntuthuko Maphumulo soccer The type of South African soccer that has entertained township fans for many years has been called diski. It’s based on short-passing, flair, passion and a love of the game and it’s known as samba football in Brazil. MTN last year launched a six-a-side version of the people’s game and named it […]

David McKay Anglo American, the United Kingdom-listed mining group, is forecast to suffer at least a one-fifth reduction in income from diamonds this financial year amid weakening confidence in the United States economy. That will be the implication of sales figures delivered by Anglo’s 45%-held subsidiary, De Beers, on June 19. The diamond group is […]

Barry Streek The government’s commitment to provide water and sanitation to rural areas falls short of targets for the worst-affected provinces of KwaZulu-Natal, North West and Northern Province, Auditor General Shauket Fakie told Parliament this week. Fakie said by August 1999 only 195 of the 1025 approved Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) projects had been […]

SOUTH Africa’s central bank cut its key repo rate by 100 basis points to 11% on Thursday, taking the financial markets by surprise. The Reserve Bank said that its decision was based on the clearly discernible declining trend in inflation and projections from its Monetary Policy Committee that the CPIX index would be within its […]

PAUL KIRK, Durban | Friday THE high-profile owner of a Durban electronics shop was arrested this week on suspicion of illegally tapping the telephones of a major shipping company. Police say only three cases of illegal telephone tapping – including this weeks case – have been prosecuted since new legislation was passed allowing for serious […]

SOUTH Africa’s Public Enterprises minister on Wednesday confirmed the former chief executive of the national airline was paid a $28-million salary, saying government never approved the amount. Jeff Radebe said the chief of South Africa’s giant public utility Transnet, also did not have the authority to enter into an employment contract with Coleman Andrews, hired […]

MATTHEW BURBIDGE, Johannesburg | Thursday AS the big guns gather in Pretoria to probe alleged corruption in South Africas controversial arms acquisition deal, a small group of people on Thursday huddled in front of a run-down hospital in Johannesburg to protest military spending. Asked how a small group could ever hope to influence the governments […]

Johannesburg | Thursday A PRISONER was killed and a man linked to an Israeli mafia organisation in South Africa was wounded when a gunman attacked a police van taking them to court on Wednesday, a police representative said. Senior Superintendent Chris Wilken said Lior Saadt and four other awaiting trial prisoners were travelling to the […]