Sherilee Bridge Some bears hibernate longer than just the winter. This is the case in the South African bond market, with bonds constantly flirting with all-time best levels despite the weakness of the country’s currency against the United States dollar. Investors burnt by the sell-off in the equities market may only need to be reminded […]
channel vision Robert Kirby BBC Prime is running a repeat of a splendid documentary series called Peoples’ Century. This was first broadcast in the late 1990s and was an intriguing retrospective, presenting 100 years of history in thematic episodes. For anyone parent wanting to give the offspring a humanly intelligent overview of the last century, […]
The Coega project has been plagued with problems from the start. Now it may encounter legal troubles Stefaans Brmmer The Coega Development Corporation (CDC), the government-owned company driving the establishment of an industrial development zone and now evicting residents at Coega near Port Elizabeth, is alleged to have done both without legal mandate. And the […]
Why we must stop apeing our colonial masters analysis Anthony Holiday With this week’s decision by the Organisation for African Unity to transform itself into an African Union, in obedient mimicry of the European Union, this continent has taken yet another step in a flight from its authentic cultures, religious, artistic and political traditions in […]
Marianne Merten A Constitutional Court ruling has opened the way for a teenage Cape Town schoolgirl to claim damages from the Western Cape Department of Education because she was raped by a teacher. Last week the court declared invalid a law that allows aggrieved South African citizens only 90 days to give written notice of […]
Gavin Foster BMW’s Z3, Porsche’s Boxster and DaimlerChrysler’s Mercedes-Benz SLK have been around for a couple of years now, while Audi’s TT, a recent arrival, is also proving popular in South Africa. Now there’s a new wave of two-seater sports cars cropping up, headed by Toyota’s mid-engined MR2. Why be sensible? Most people are altogether […]
comedy of the week Peter Bradshaw Earthling life forms whose origins lie in spores from outer space it’s an idea that gave us Mission to Mars, Quatermass and Erich von Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods. And it very nearly gave us an ass-kicking action thriller called Evolution, before director-producer Ivan Reitman saw Don Jakoby’s original […]
Jane Rosenthal The Picador Book of African Stories edited by Stephen Gray (Picador) Unity in Flight (Botsotso) Tenderfoots (M&G Books) ‘Africa is difficult to see because it is gun-shaped and heart-shaped. It takes heart to see her. It takes some cultural and racial overcoming. Actually it takes being a true richly grounded human being to […]
Right to reply Charles Pillai In response to the article entitled “We are addressing pension problems” (June 29 to July 5), I believe that it is appropriate that I place certain matters in perspective. The writer Jack Monedi, head of communications at the Department of Social Services in North West province begins by focusing on […]
Paul Kirk A senior Technikon Natal accountancy lecturer who has been found guilty of plagiarism was charged with housebreaking and slapped with a restraining order by the terrified lecturer who blew the whistle on his fake degree. The Mail & Guardian reported in March that Ian dey van Heerden’s PhD in business management was withdrawn […]