offensive Howard Barrell President Thabo Mbeki jetted to Algiers on Friday, taking his diplomatic offensive on the crisis in Zimbabwe a step further amid grave concern in South African circles about pre-election violence against opponents of President Robert Mugabe. Mbeki was expected to meet privately with Mugabe in the Algerian capital over the weekend. Observers […]
Heather Hogan Home owners, already taxed to the hilt, can expect to face yet another burden if the new Property Rates Bill, which aims to tax the public on the value of all improvements made to their properties, is passed. Ratepayers who already pay varied amounts on the value of the land will now have […]
No letting up for Newmarket farriers with over 50 classics to their credit Alan Smith Hitting the nail on the head is an absolute necessity for Mark and Simon Curtis. They have to get it right. The brothers are farriers and own Newmarket’s oldest- established company. Their late father Don established the business in 1949 […]
Ex-premier Mathews Phosa is the major shareholder in a company offering the public a ‘budget price’ legal service Khadija Magardie Mathews Phosa, the former premier of Mpumalanga and the head of the African National Congress’s legal department, has reinvented himself as “the people’s lawyer”, selling his legal services to the public – for R30 a […]
Peter Dickson When he’s not an international peace mediator, former South African president Nelson Mandela is extending the olive branch back home in a revolutionary farming project designed to boost rural income opportunities and create jobs. Mandela’s home at Qunu in the Transkei is one of several pilot projects under way across the Eastern Cape […]
Paul Kirk Anne Jones has lived in Wentworth all her life and she now wants out. Like her mother and sister, she suffers from asthma. As a nurse she knows the fumes she breathes in from the refinery did not give her the condition, but they do make it worse. “Sometimes, especially at night and […]
Andrew Worsdale Between 100 000 and 120 000 hits a day, and between 80 000 and 100 000 visitors a month makes Josephines at www.personals.co.za one of the most popular South African websites and without doubt the most popular dating service and adult “friend finder” in the country. You can meet people for coffee, make […]
suspects Neal Collins SOCCER So that’s it then. Both British titles wrapped up like bunnies in a sack by Easter. In England, Manchester United won the Premiership with four games to spare. In Scotland, Rangers romped it with six to play. Sky-TV executives must be in despair. They had billed St Johnstone vs Rangers at […]
John Matshikiza WITH THE LID OFF Everybody’s an expert on racism these days. Even people of historically racist stock (HRS for short) have a born-again take on the subject. It was supposed to be an easy-going, late-night ramble in Lusaka. I was talking to Sakala, the Nyanja-speaking Danish Viking, about When We Were Kings, the […]
Bryan Rostron Recently I sat for half an hour with a man from an NGO and hardly understood a word he said. The way his words washed over me, you might have thought we didn’t share a common language. In fact, he was English-speaking. But he talked in “NGOese”. It is striking that those who […]