Jean Spear ‘Wealthy gentleman living in Beverly Hills is looking for a petite, adventurous, intelligent female travel mate to the exotic islands of Thailand. Must have photos. E-mail now and cruise with me.” Internet travel sites are filled with similar notices from travellers seeking the ideal travel companion to tour the globe with. From the […]
Justin Arenstein A group of international investors is threatening to sue the National Intelligence Agency (NIA)and the South African Secret Service for $14-million after getting ripped off in a complex scam by spies using apartheid-era front companies. The American investors were already granted a US district court judgment for $10,9-million in 1998, but are struggling […]
Andy Capostagno RUGBY It is week nine of the Super 12 and for South African teams it has all become academic. This is the nightmare which the organisers of the competition have long feared, in which one country falls so far behind the other two that the motto of the competition – strength versus strength […]
Khadija Magardie AFRICAN RENAISSANCE edited by Malegapuru William Makgoba (Mafube/Tafelberg) This collection of conference papers makes a surprisingly refreshing departure from the “Timbuktu glory days” rhetoric of the “African renaissance” idea. To its credit, the book does not confine itself to waxing lyrical about the revival of vague categories like moral values and African culture, […]
David Le Page One of the easiest ways to improve access to investments is to make the whole process of purchasing them far easier. This is the motivation behind Old Mutual’s investment in a “mobile portfolio management system” for its clients. Meanwhile, online stockbroker Tradek has also launched a new product to allow customers to […]
George Ellis A SECOND LOOK The issue of racism is clearly strongly felt in this country, with deep divides between various views. It is therefore important that we are clear in our minds what we are talking about when we confront the issue. As stated by Claudia Braude in her report commissioned by the South […]
As jobs are shed at a terrifying rate, it’s time for a national debate on what to do about it Glenda Daniels More than half-a-million jobs have been lost in the country over the past six years. Nearly 40 out of every 100 people of working age are unemployed – about 4,5-million people – and […]
The complete skull of an extinct species of pre-human has been found in the Sterkfontein valley, an area particularly rich in fossils Mail & Guardian reporter South African palaeontologists have notched up another world first with the discovery of the most complete skull of an extinct species of pre-human. The find could contribute significantly to […]
Guy Willoughby THEATRE It’s a sultry Saturday night in a Mpumalanga small-town bar. A visiting exec, a touch down-at-heel, is chaffing the chick behind the till. His grandiose self- description grows more and more top-heavy; she stares at him as he builds an elaborate, ramshackle castle in the air. Finally, silence. Will she applaud his […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Sydney | Thursday 9.00am CRICKET supremo Ali Bacher has alleged that two matches were fixed during last year’s World Cup. The Australian, newspaper ran a front-page article after an interview with Bacher in which he was said to have accused at least one international umpire of manipulating matches. ”I am as confident as […]