Friday night :Andrew Kay My Friday night was so good it actually started the night before. Coming at the tail end of a cathartic and sleep-deprived three- day bender, my Friday night was perhaps a little tame in comparison with the previous two nights. If this column had been titled Wednesday to Friday night, you […]

THURSDAY, 11.30AM: MOROKA Swallows coach Walter Rautmann on Wednesday joined a growing list of people claiming Birds players have been accepting bribes to throw certain matches, and which may have resulted in Swallows losing a crucial league match. Rautmann said there could be substance to claims that former Swallows directors bribed key players to deliberately […]

THURSDAY, 12.15PM: UNITED Crickate Board MD Dr Ali Bacher on Wednesday announced sweeping changes to South African cricket, including co-opting black members to the UCBSA board, splitting the Supersport Series into two divisions, and a new-look Standard Bank League and Cup format. Bacher said three black cricket representatives will be co-opted to the UCBSA board, […]

DEPUTY army chief Major-General Roland de Vries retires on Friday, according to an army statement issued on Thursday. De Vries, in the army since 1963, finished his career heading up transformation and joint training. For many years, from 1973, he led the Ratel Mechanised Infantry Combat Vehicle. Army reorganisation has made his post redundant, and […]

David le Page Economists are not as a rule reluctant to be quoted, but the subject of personal investment in unit trusts induces unusual reticence. This is largely due to their being advisers to the managers of those funds. The fund managers would be irked to have their doubts confirmed by their paid gurus. After […]

Howard Barrell The African National Congress has gained significant voter support in recent months, edging it closer to a two-thirds majority in elections in five weeks’ time. The ANC also looks set to control provincial legislatures or governments in eight of South Africa’s nine provinces – in all but the Western Cape. These are the […]

Phillip van NiekerkL:FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK One of the great myths of our industry is that the press is “powerful”. This dates back, no doubt, to the days when The Times was “The Thunderer” – its correspondents, like Morrison of Peking, enjoying the status of ambassadors in foreign countries. Since then that power has been […]

SEVEN major opposition political parties in Mpumalanga banded together on Thursday to create a multi-party forum to co-ordinate election campaigns and monitoring. The initiative, spearheaded by the Institute for Political Leadership, should allow opposition parties to pool resources and staff to monitor voting polls and election rallies, and to attempt to ensure that the ruling […]

Ann Eveleth Northern Province pensioners suing the state were rounded up in a police van and forced – by senior welfare officials – to sign documents they could not read, their lawyers claimed this week. Pretoria Legal Resources Centre lawyer (LRC)Nick de Villiers said about 37 clients involved in legal action to force the state […]

Thokozani Mtshali The announcement this week by the Gauteng Ministry of Transport and the South African Taxi Council of agreed measures to regulate the troubled industry brings hope for commuters caught in the crossfire of warring taxi factions. The announcement comes after years of hard work by the national Ministry of Transport in a quest […]