Provided you use your head, you can save 20% on the book price of the car you want by buying at an auction Gavin Foster Buying a second-hand car can be a tricky business. Do you go to a dealer or look for a cheap private deal? What happens if you buy a lemon that’s […]

Joseph Hanlon The fallout from the murder of a corruption-busting Mozambican banker may complicate South African banking giant Absa’s bid to buy the bank the murdered man headed. Banco Austral’s interim president, Antnio Siba-Siba Macucua, was thrown down a 15-storey stairwell at the bank’s Maputo headquarters on August 11, two days before Absa was to […]

Belinda Beresford As President Thabo Mbeki waded back into the controversy surrounding HIV/Aids, the government was preparing to defend itself in court against its former allies, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). The TAC lawsuit accuses the national and provincial health departments of breaching the Constitution by failing to provide anti-retroviral drugs to HIV-positive pregnant women. […]

Drew Forrest (September 7) is on the money. The African National Congress prefers sycophantic enemies to critical friends. As a long-time apartheid opponent, I also increasingly find myself subject to hostility because I criticise the government in public. Many of those with whom the ANC prefers to deal are supporters of the old South Africa, […]

The log section comes to an end this weekend Andy Capostagno The South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) has no plans to cancel the fixture between the Springboks and the United States Eagles in Houston, Texas, on December 1. Despite Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in Washington and New York, Sarfu is pressing ahead with preparations for […]

REVIEW Gavin Foster Daihatsu YRV, R127 995 Funny little car, the Daihatsu YRV. It’s dinky. It’s fun. It’s quite lively. It’s very well equipped in some areas, with ABS and EBD, dual airbags, electric windows and an aircon as standard, but it falls down, rather unnecessarily, in others. Soundproofing could be better, the doors feel […]

Victor Bondarenko is determined to win some silverware with the Birds this season Ntuthuko Maphumulo Is it a plane? Is it Superman? No, it’s the Dube birds. Moroka Swallows are flying high in the Premier Soccer League, sitting pretty in the top spot in the league. Moroka Swallows seem to have found their wings again […]

Two field rangers are still in a critical condition after being trapped in the fire that claimed the lives of 23 people Fiona Macleod The Kruger Park is looking into reports that disgruntled staff members started the run-away fire that killed 23 people and destroyed 60000ha of the world-famous reserve last week. The atmosphere among […]

BOXING Deon Potgieter New Jersey-based promoters Main Events will promote the World Boxing Council (WBC) super-middleweight title bout between Eric Lucas and Dingaan “Rose of Soweto” Thobela. Main Events, which represents the likes of Lennox Lewis, Zab Judah, Fernando Vargas and Michael Moorer, won the purse bid held last week in Mexico. The Lucas-Thobela bout […]

The president questions the link between HIV and Aids, yet he is no medical doctor, nor disease specialist. He relies on outdated statistics. He states that Aids is caused by poverty, yet his government wastes R48-billion on arms that South Africa does not need and will never use, unless involved in a conflict with the […]