Barry Streek A new body to help South Africans come to terms with their past and develop the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to promote “nation- building”, is to be officially launched in Cape Town next week. “The post-1994 years were marked by a sense of goodwill and optimism regarding reconciliation. We […]
Jaspreet Kindra President Thabo Mbeki has organised a top- level meeting with traditional leaders aligned to the Inkatha Freedom Party to address the amakhosi’s concerns that their power base in KwaZulu-Natal will be eroded by new local government structures. The traditional leaders, who have been pressing Mbeki to hear them for several months, are to […]
Merle Colborne LIFESTYLE The Friday-night crowd at the Flagons and Dragons pub in Durban’s Windermere Road have “lived-in” faces or, at least, faces that have been “stayed over in” a good few times. Loosened by lyrics and beer, the men hug a lot and stare damply into each other’s eyes. The women smile, the way […]
M&G reporters The London and Frankfurt stock exchanges have agreed to merge, creating Europe’s largest stock market and a powerful regional counterweight to Wall Street, the London Stock Exchange announced this week. The London exchange and Germany’s Deutsche Boerse would each own 50% of the new entity, which is to be called iX, for International […]
Marianne Merten The political storm in the Western Cape hamlet of Saron has settled after the African National Congress national disciplinary committee overturned the decision of its provincial officials to expel the mayor and his deputy. For several months tempers ran high in Saron – a tiny town in the shadow of the Swartruggens mountains […]
Deon Potgieter BOXING Francois Botha has landed possibly the biggest fight to involve a South African boxer. He will be contesting the undisputed heavyweight world title against Lennox Lewis in London on July 15. The late trainer Alan Toweel once said: “The heavyweight boxing champion of the world is the number one sportsman in the […]
Robert Mugabe may soon feel he has sufficiently muddled the issues and struck enough terror into voters and his opponents to win the forthcoming elections in Zimbabwe quite comfortably. If so, this may lead him to less violent and irrational political behaviour than he has shown since he lost the referendum on a new Constitution […]
Cool new pocket PCs are ready to turn up the heat on the market leader Jack Schofield Hewlett-Packard is about to launch the sleekest, most stylish and most powerful range of palmtop computers on the market, the Jornada 540 series, running Microsoft’s latest pocket PC software. Compaq and Casio are also using the new operating […]
New additions to the local insurance industry are a women-only policy and maintenance protection Heather Hogan Women (and men) wary of time-consuming, expensive and sometimes futile battles to get financial support after a divorce can now take out an insurance policy to protect them against the maintenance blues. However, people in customary marriages are excluded […]
Two top British poets are among those coming to Durban’s poetry festival Merle Colborne There was a time when poetry was thought of as something only people who spoke posh, wore tweed skirts or jackets with leather elbow patches and drank their tea from bone china cups could enjoy. Now aficionados include those who talk […]