The Mail & Guardian asked two women – one an entrepreneur, the other a financial expert – to share their financial strategies `The realisation that I had to take control of my finances came to me relatively late in life,” says entrepreneur Penelope Gracie. “I was in my late 20s when I realised that no […]
tunnel Donald G McNeil Jnr A Second Look The first 15 years of affirmative action are hell. But painful as they are, you have to go through them. In the United States the alternative was the race riots that burned cities down. Here, you won’t get off so easy. The alternative is civil war. For […]
SOUTH Africa and Uganda have signed a bilateral agreement that will challenge pharmaceutical companies to reduce the price of expensive anti-retroviral Aids drugs, SABC television news reported on Wednesday. The two countries on Wednesday agreed to share resources and exchange knowledge of Aids and HIV. Uganda has developed an extensive network which operates effectively in […]
Justin Arenstein Mpumalanga Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu has done the one thing that everyone thought was impossible: he has become an international media sensation and has simultaneously caused a public rift within the African National Congress. And the secret to Mahlangu’s dubious achievements appears to be that he based important decisions on inaccurate, or at best […]
One of the legacies of Machel’s present husband, Nelson Mandela, will be a huge forest of indigenous trees.
Shaun Harris wonders whether South Africans have learned some financial lessons in the past two years of high interest rates and a volatile economy Let’s face it, we South Africans have some bad habits. We take on too much debt, buy on credit when interest rates are sky high, and don’t save enough. When we […]
As with last season, Arsenal beat them in the Charity Shield, but as the new season kicks off Manchester United still dominate the game in England, on and off the field. Ian Ridley reports >From the wedding of Mr and Mrs Posh Spice, through world travels that make Rolling Stones tours look like a trip […]
Donna Block and Mungo Soggot Management, unions and government officials were this week putting the finishing touches to the National Union of Mineworkers’s (NUM) rescue plan for East Rand Proprietary Mines (ERPM). Sources close to the negotiations said on Thursday most obstacles had been cleared – including the possibility that the rescue plan would have […]
Victoria Coren Body Language It was only a matter of time. After all, you have to admit that real supermodels are slightly imperfect. Cindy Crawford has a mole. Kate Moss has bad hair days. An unflattering picture was once taken of Linda Evangelista. We simply cannot be expected to put up with these flaws. It […]
Heather Hogan In a milieu where people marry until “divorce do us part”, it’s best to be cautious when deciding how to legally formulate a marriage. The major decision is whether to be married in or out of community of property. Unless you specifically choose otherwise, your marriage is automatically concluded in community of property, […]