For foreign investment to grow in South Africa, political leaders must learn to be careful about what they say Reg Rumney The South African economy enters the new year with a lot to prove. The growth rate for 2000, which has been steadily revised downwards, is now expected to come in at 3% way off […]

Gavin Foster It’s hard to believe that all the fuss about the “millennium bug” took place a full year ago. But a year can be an age in sport. Sharks and Springbok winger Deon Kayser hasn’t been really thrilled this year. “I broke my jaw in the World Cup semifinal against Australia last year, and […]

Deon Potgieter boxing The future of boxing received two serious blows last weekend in two world title bouts featuring South African fighters. On Saturday Mbulelo Botile hammered a brave Paul Ingle into a critical condition in their International Boxing Federation featherweight world title bout in England. The night before, Dingaan Thobela was robbed of his […]

Sheree Russouw Last year, as millions of people across the globe guzzled champagne and saluted the new century with rowdy renditions of Auld Lang Syne, the pervasive threat of Y2K was on their minds. But the predictions of computer systems crashing worldwide on the eve of the millennium paled this year alongside a very real […]

With no presents or homes to go to, street children won’t see much festive cheer this season Boetie Damane While many, bolstered by seasonal good cheer and fat 13th cheques, are whipping themselves into a spending spree this Christmas, what is the state of the Yuletide economy for Mduduzi, Nhlanhla, Mpho & Co, teenaged members […]

As Beijing braces for its full plunge into global trade, a cautious realism is replacing the old illusions John Gittings The Chinese phrase for joining the World Trade Organisation which should finally take place in the coming year is rushi or “entering the world”. After more than 20 years of economic reform and “opening up”, […]

Six years after the genocide, the killer children of Rwanda are going home. Maggie O’Kane visits the camp where they are being prepared for freedom At the foot of Misoko mountain, where mad, sad, gorilla-lover Dian Fossey lived out her life, stands the higher institute of agriculture and animal husbandry. Soon 10 buses will pull […]

Greed and corruption too often drove athletic achievement off the sports pages Gavin Evans Sport’s first year of the third millennium (or the last of the second) will be remembered as hugely significant in so many ways here good, there bad, but mostly merely ugly. Let’s start with the good, because it was indeed far […]

1Peter Marais to Freda Adams 2The devil 3Peter Davis of the Sunday Tribune 4Colin Eglin of the Democratic Alliance 5Herschelle Gibbs 6For writing about prostitution among female students for the Mail & Guardian 7Trevor Manuel (halting the Nedcor-Stanbic battle) 81956 9The British queen mother 10David Paterson 11Jolo Island in the Philippines 12Kwaito star Mondoza 13Foot-and-mouth […]

Melvyn Minnaar With the real end of the millennium in sight, taking stock of what’s in the wine cellar makes a good reason for a party. While the drinking (but, please not while driving!) is good, let’s open the Cape’s finest wines and see just how good they are. While sipping a dashing Darling Sauvignon […]