Nawaal Deane and Mungo Soggot The state’s Road Accident Fund has placed a general bar on white professionals both legal and medical specialists handling its cases. The fund, which deals with lawsuits stemming from car accidents on behalf of the state, has instructed law firms acting on its behalf that they too should avoid using […]
Shaun de Waal CD OFTHEWEEK Irish rockers The Hothouse Flowers have a history stretching back to the late Eighties, so a Best of album (London/Gallo) is not likely to be understocked. And the format works particularly well for them, with one surging, impassioned song following another in a continuous wave of top-notch rockin’ soul. Their […]
It was a tumultuous end to a mad, bad season for Bolton’s Scotland captain Ian Whittell He is 35, six months past a footballer’s pensionable age. Yet while most of his peers were dusting down the policies, sizing up a place either behind or at the bar or wearing a groove in the TV analysts’ […]
Martin Gillingham athletics When Cathy Freeman arrived in Monte Carlo last week to collect the most prestigious sporting award of the year she was … how can we put this delicately? … OK, why bother. Last year’s world sportswoman of the year has gone to fat. Fat, that is, in the eye of your average […]
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni In a scathing attack on men, Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Frene Ginwala blamed the “old boys network” for destroying governments’ integrity. “Links established in schools and universities, in villages and on golf links all too easily slip from an old boys network into nepotism, whether based on the old […]
Lynda Gilfillan food Kalk Bay, with its air of shabby English chic, is at first glance an un- likely place to find a restaurant redolent with the Spanish-African sounds and symbols of Cuba. From Christ to Che Guevara, the walls of the Cape to Cuba restaurant are covered with genuine icons and artefacts that reflect […]
Alec Hogg South Africa’s largest banking group, FirstRand, has emerged as the most likely buyer of the niche bank Saambou, which at current market prices is worth about R2-billion. This emerged earlier this week as the bank that had been the favourite to buy Saambou ruled itself out of the game. Absa Group CEO Nallie […]
Fred Esbend More than 600 Port Elizabeth families face an uncertain future as controversy over the proposed relocation of police headquarters from the city to King William’s Town mounts. The latest estimated cost for the move is now standing at a whopping R105- million, according to Democratic Party MPL Bobby Stevenson. Eastern Cape MEC for […]
Damir Dokic might be the tennis dad from hell but daughter Jelena won’t hear a word against him Chris Bowers Jelena Dokic is a far more happy-go-lucky young woman than she appears on the tennis court. Despite her mild air of suspicion, once she starts talking about tennis, she relaxes. She’s not a source of […]
Anthony Holiday CROSSFIRE Prison, it is said, changes people. In Allan Boesak’s case, a year of the cold stone jug seems to have made him a lot more like himself. Boesak the popular orator has not died. In fact, he has emerged more dangerously potent than ever before. The cadences and mesmeric tricks of repetition, […]