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 […]
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Scream catapulted Kevin Williamson to the top of the Hollywood heap – and it’s been downhill for the scriptwriter ever since. But John Patterson is pleased to report that Scream 3 is a riot.
OIL prices in Asia fell on Monday bon an extended bout of profit-taking and on news that Iran has raised its output by a substantial amount in March. New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) crude futures were trading at $25,10 per barrel, dropping 47 cents from its close in New York on Friday. Traders said some […]
THE Northern Province is bracing itself for the Easter Weekend and the annual pilgrimage of thousands of members of the Zion Christian Church faith. ZCC worshippers travel in convoy along the N1 to converge at Moria near Pietersburg each year for festivities.”During the coming weekend, the N1 highway that bisects our province will turn into […]