Do unit trust awards actually provide any useful information for the investor? Thebe Mabanga The unit trust industry is entrusted with the responsibility of looking after the wealth – and often livelihood – of investors with relatively little knowledge. At the end of the March quarter, this wealth amounted to R117-billion and was controlled by […]
South Africa cannot afford not to treat HIV-positive pregnant women with anti- retroviral drugs Howard Barrell The government will save the South African taxpayer more than R800-million a year – and will save more than 8 000 children’s lives each month – if it makes anti- retroviral drugs and milk formula available to all HIV-positive […]
Brenda Atkinson review OFTHEWEEK I revisited MuseuMAfricA at the weekend to find a few favourite things to write about – helpful signposts, if you like, in the extraordinary terrain of objects and events that is Urban Futures. I thought I would focus on the fourth floor, site of Rory Doepel’s exhibition Bones and Bytes: Healing […]
The fact that one of a group of juvenile detainees was her sister’s murderer did not stop Patricia de Lille from fighting for their rights Marianne Merten Pan-Africanist Congress MP Patricia de Lille entrenched her reputation as one of South Africa’s more principled politicians this week when she came to the rescue of juveniles from […]
Unit trust results over the last quarter reflect low interest in local equities Neil Thomas The sagging local equities market is inspiring some serious abuse of poor old William Shakespeare. Chief culprit is Jeremy Gardiner, head of Investec Unit Trusts. The erudite Gardiner, who regularly pens entertaining prose on the market, bemoaned the fact that […]
Neal Collins cricket Today, I will talk of the tree. Not to the tree you understand. England may be losing regularly to Zimbabwe but I haven’t lost my sanity. Yet. The tree? There is only one worth talking about in cricket. You may have seen it on telly recently, while the West Indies were getting […]
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION It has been fascinating to watch the recent and sometimes desperate damage control undertaken by the SABC, especially with regard to the Durban Aids 2000 conference. Not that the manipulation of public comprehension is anything new at the SABC. They’ve been doing it for as long as anyone can remember. In the […]
Mark Ouma olympics Unfazed by her late inclusion into the Olympics squad, Tania Tallie is determined to make her mark in Sydney. A full-time employee in a boat-building business in St Helena Bay in the Western Cape, Tallie has been working for three years to qualify for the Olympics. She achieved her goal just in […]
VISA and Standard Charter Bank have launched the first chip based pre-authorised, offline payment card in Ghana. Visa CEMEA president, Anne Cobb, said that their chip card should help overcome infrastructure weaknesses that have traditionally held back the introduction of payment cards in emerging markets. No telephone authorisation is required when the card is used. […]
THE King commission of inquiry, set up to probe corruption in South African cricket after Proteas captain Hansie Cronje admitted to bribe taking, is to hold a second and final round of public hearings beginning on October 2. Commission secretary John Bacon said it had not yet been decided whether Cronje would be recalled to […]