Mark Atkinson SHAREWORLD Nick Leeson may have been a brash, high-risk gambler prepared to bet Barings Bank on a rise in the Japanese stock market but, on the whole, London traders are a shy and conservative breed, according to new research published this week. Based on in-depth interviews with the London staff of four of […]

Connie Selebogo Three Senegalese art traders, who claim they were assaulted at the Cradock street market in Rosebank last month by bogus policemen, are due in court next week – not as witnesses but as suspects. The traders, who are being tried on assault charges lodged by their alleged attackers, say the police initially opposed […]

Chris McGreal The first sign of life from one of the trees speckled across the vast new lake that is southern Mozambique was an arm thrust from among the leaves. The anonymous limb waved a cooking pot, not with any great vigour, for fear of upsetting the precarious balance of life under the foliage. But […]

Neil Manthorp Planning was something that South Africa’s cricket teams weren’t able to do in the past because they had no experience of what they were planning for. It was like packing for a weekend trip to the moon – should you take sandwiches? Does it get cold in the evenings? This time, with three […]

Khadija Magardie The leading United States television news network, ABC, has drafted advertisements for the South African press seeking patients who were part of Dr Werner Bezwoda’s discredited clinical trials into breast cancer treatment. The advert calls on women who were part of Bezwoda’s breast cancer trials at Johannesburg hospital to come forward to tell […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Surging oil prices – which may push the cost of petrol to more than R3 a litre by April – have come as an overdue reminder to industrialised countries of just how dependent their economies still are on a single source of energy. And, more to the point, how little they […]

Cameron Duodu LETTER FROM THE NORTH Television is a wonderful invention – it finds it hard to lie. So we have all been witnesses to the paltry efforts of the so-called “international community” to save the people of Mozambique from the incredible deluges of water that have threatened to drown thousands of them with every […]

David Gow Forget the gearstick and bewildering array of switches and buttons you have scarcely mastered before buying a new model. The car of the future will come with a single joystick to activate Web-based data services; it will even talk to you and tell you where to go. Within 10 years at most, the […]