A BUSINESSMAN from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has bought one of South Africa’s top vineyards from a descendant of the first French Huguenot settler to plant vines in the Cape region. George de Villiers on Wednesday said he had sold 33 hectares of his Mont Rochelle estate at Franschhoek northeast of Cape Town […]
Brussels | Saturday ZIMBABWE’S President Robert Mugabe and his entourage should face targeted personal sanctions if he fails to allow free and fair elections next year, a think-tank said in a report published this weekend. The Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG) said the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and other key global […]
A Sudanese man was killed and two others wounded when a bomb he used as a doorstop exploded on Wednesday at a shop in a village about 50km south of Khartoum. The shopkeeper killed in the blast, had used the bomb to hold the door open, apparently unaware that the object was an explosive. The […]
After leading the digital music revolution, Napster’s former fans won’t flock back when it relaunches, says Edward Helmore Six months ago anyone with even a casual interest in technology couldn’t avoid Napster. News of the company had moved from the business pages to the front page as the digital music revolution became a cultural phenomenon. […]
REVIEWS Gavin Foster Triumph Bonneville, R59 995 BMW K1200 RS, R107 600 Remember the days when the valve-caps were the only plastic bits on a motorcycle? When only ducktails had tattoos, and the 115mph (183kph) Triumph Bonneville was king of the bonies? Today things are different. The mechanicals of modern superbikes are all enclosed in […]
The track record of SA’s gold mining companies suggests they will not be able to capitalise on rand weakness David McKay South Africa’s gold mining companies stand to add 2% to 3% to their operating margins following this week’s weakening of the rand. Rand weakness has seen the rand gold price nearing record levels of […]
Proposals are in the pipeline to address the problems facing small businesses Barry Streek The government’s strategy to promote small business a key element of its economic policies is under review because of the failure of 117 246 small business enterprises, which cost the state R68-million. A key element of the revised strategy is likely […]
Khadija Magardie The CEO of the Cancer Association of South Africa (Cansa), Steve Lepita, this week lashed out against his suspension, calling it an attempt to stifle racial transformation of the body. He also accused the association’s management of using Cansa’s name to line their pockets. Lepita heard of his suspension while abroad on business […]
Mungo Soggot The heads of the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Scorpions have been exchanging letters about their strained relationship after fresh claims by police that the elite unit hijacks cases from the men in blue. There has long been rivalry between the Directorate of Special Operations (or the Scorpions) and the police, […]
David Macfarlane The Eastern Cape Department of Education has spent more than R1-million of taxpayers’ money on a fruitless 18-month campaign to transfer nine teachers against their will to other schools. The Labour Court has now found in favour of the teachers and ordered the MEC for education and the department’s superintendent general to pay […]