A PIONEERING deal between South Africa’s National Botanical Institute (NBI) and a US horticultural company which ?sells off the country?s botanical heritage? will be scrutinised by the environmental department. Environmental Affairs and Tourism Director General Crispian Olver said the department’s legal advisers would re-examine the deal, which allows Ball Horticultural Company of Chicago, Illinois, access […]
PUBLIC Protector Selby Baqwa, Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka, Judge Fikile Bam of the Constitutional Court and various senior members of the ANC were privy to a secret meeting at which ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni admitted that he had money in his bank which he could not account for, according to a report […]
Khadija Magardie As the Netherlands Parliament this week became the first in the world to legalise euthanasia the South African government says it has shelved discussion on the subject at least for the time being. The South African Law Commission (SALC) released a report on the subject in mid-1999, but it is currently gathering dust […]
Best-performing South African unit trust, quarter: Futuregrowth Pure Equity, 15,22% (sell-sell, income reinvested) Last quarter’s winner: Sage Global, 16,23% Best-performing South African unit trust, one year: Liberty Resources R, 55,98% (sell-sell, income reinvested) Last quarter’s winner: Sage Global, 51,91% Best-performing South African unit trust, three year: Liberty Resources R, 230,7% (buy-sell, income reinvested) Last quarter’s […]
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION The tyranny of television stations can and may soon be “tamed”, to use the expression of a commentator in the New York Times. Cracking the metaphorical whip will be a new piece of technology, a telly-top box already in production in the United States and the United Kingdom. It’s called a digital […]
Funeral pyres, decomposing corpses, conspiracy theories, xenophobia: the similarities between the plagues of medieval Europe and Britain’s current foot and mouth epidemic are marked, writes John Vidal Each day, many thousands died. The land was empty, the villages were silent. Fires smouldered for weeks, the acrid palls of smoke drifting over the hills and valleys. […]
Sarah Bullen Brian and two friends are in their mid- to late thirties. They all own houses, drive good cars and are what would be described as financially secure, meaning they have managed to put some money away. Each of them had opted to put his money into unit trusts, but late last year, after […]
Marianne Merten Cape Flats chess champs Kenny and Craig Willenberg are on their way to the exclusive South African Closed Championship in Pretoria later this month, courtesy of generous Mail & Guardian readers. And another reader, who wants to remain anonymous, is ensuring the brothers can defend their national titles at the South African Junior […]
art movie of the week Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Iarritu, Love’s a Bitch (Amores Perros in Spanish) tells the story of three very different types of people, runs for two-and-a-half hours and, if that sounds a bit clinical, it’s a passionate but lucid masterpiece. There are no special effects, no grand skyline shots to tell […]
Hound hunting is the latest fad in South Africa, after it was banned in Zimbabwe Fiona Macleod South African hunting out-fits are offering overseas clients the chance to hunt predators, especially highly endangered leopards, with dogs. Using hounds to hunt down leopards is becoming an increasingly popular marketing tool among local safari operators after it […]