A number of people, more often than not women, find themselves in a financial predicament at retirement age when they can do little about it, reports Shaun Harris It is a cruel scenario that sadly is becoming increasingly frequent as South Africa’s divorce rate goes ever higher, and often includes couples getting divorced near or […]
Mail & Guardian reporter Women’s Day, August 9, marks the anniversary of the 1956 march on the Union Buildings in Pretoria by more than 20 000 women of all races protesting against the pass laws. As a visible tribute to South Africa’s women, the government has decided to place a monument at the site where […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer Judging by what I read, heard and saw during the last couple of weeks, the Premier Soccer League might as well phone a courier company and ask them to deliver the league trophy and R1-million first-prize cheque to Orlando Pirates. One newspaper survey had seven of eight scribes tipping the Buccaneers to […]
Mungo Soggot Minister of Justice Penuell Maduna wants to explore the viability of merging South Africa’s two highest courts: the five-year- old Constitutional Court in Johannesburg and the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein. Maduna referred to a possible merger of the two courts at a recent meeting in Johannesburg of the General Council of […]
Compaq may be picking up new customers soon with an ingenious method for extending the battery life of notebook computers, according to New Scientist magazine. A new keyboard design uses small coils and tiny permanent magnets embedded in each key to generate tiny pulses of electricity. These pulses build charge in a capacitor, which then […]
The traditional art of beading has reinvented itself and is turning into a money-spinner, says Alice Coetzee The centuries-old tradition of beadmaking, passed from mother to daughter, is taking on a new meaning in helping to break the cycle of poverty for rural woman. Through the vision and marketing flair of Thembeka Nkamba-van Wyk, former […]
Rumours that Pierce Brosnan is set to order his last martini give us all a chance to play one of our favourite games – who will be the next James Bond? Andrew Collins looks at the contenders and sorts out the rough from the smooth Reports of James Bond’s demise are always greatly exaggerated. He’s […]
Single parents, especially women, need to be very strategic about their finances, writes Shaun Harris Essentially there should be no difference at all between the investment needs of men and women. The problem in South Africa, however, is demographics, and the structure of society that gives a picture of vast discrepancies when it comes to […]
Deon Potgieter Boxing South Africa’s self-made heavyweight hero Francois Botha returns to big league action on Saturday when he takes on the highly rated American boxer Shannon Briggs in Atlantic City. Will the “White Buffalo” be going into the ring with a realistic chance of winning against one of the few men ever to beat […]
Alex Dodd LANDMARKS Strange how we love to attach distinctive things to remarkable people. With Nelson Mandela it’s his flamboyant shirts. Jackie O will always be remembered wearing those deliciously elusive dark glasses. Marilyn Monroe had her platinum locks (even though she was really a brunette), and Mao Zedong is clothed in our memories in […]