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, […]
Barry Streek Cabinet has approved a new human resource strategy to challenge the high degree of inequality in South Africa the second worst in the world. The strategy, tabled in Parliament this week, is intended to improve the country’s Human Development Index. It recognises that poverty-related health issues, including HIV/Aids, will have a significant effect […]
Marianne Merten Religious leaders in Cape Town have mobilised against sex tourism following reports that city officials are looking into establishing red light districts. On Wednesday representatives of the Muslim, Jewish and Christian faiths were ready to address a unicity council meeting in support of a motion by the African Christian Democratic Party against sex […]
In the 1950s severe weather caused worldwide death and destruction estimated at $4-billion a year; by the 1990s that amount had escalated into tens of billions of dollars Charlene Smith Global warming and its effect on the proliferation of infectious diseases has far-reaching implications for areas such as the economy, interstate trade relations and tourism. […]
Pule waga Mabe The shortage of doctors in most rural hospitals is a growing concern within the ranks of the Rural Doctors’ Association of South Africa (Rudasa), which is now calling for the national Department of Health to establish a rural health unit. Rudasa’s concern follows the failure of compulsory community service for doctors to […]
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION Any television documentary bearing the name Cliff Bestall is sure to be of distinctive quality. Last week’s Special Assignment was no exception, an extended programme about the so-called numbers gangs that conduct a reign of terror in South African prisons. Any details of the daily brutalities dished out by the gang members […]
Chef Dalawar Chaudhry, caterer for the Pakistan cricketers during their tour of England, tells Pete Nichols about Imran Khan, fax orders and paratha breads We first invited the Pakistani team to our west London restaurant, the Tandoori Kebab House, when they were touring in 1974. My father, Abdul-Majid, had always been a very keen cricketer. […]