Chris Gordon This decade has seen a major drop in De Beers’s Central Selling Organisation (CSO) share of the diamond market, and there are questions as to whether the cartel can survive in its current form. The diamond giant now controls an ever-decreasing share of the world’s diamond output. The Southern African diamond industry, traditionally […]
Andy Capostagno Rugby Three rounds to go and the Super 12 semi- finalists remain as elusive as a Waisale Serevi side-step. There are those who will argue that the Highlanders and the Stormers are certainties for the last four, but that’s all it is; an argument. The remaining fixtures for all the contenders are full […]
Tony Twine The relaxation of foreign exchange controls on South Africans has opened a world of opportunity previously forbidden. Unhappily, it has also unleashed a world of mystery on relatively innocent South Africans, many of whom had only had the domestic capital markets as their benchmark for investment performance. Wealthy South Africans, and those who […]
Ian Clayton Women in South Africa have won “a victory” in terms of the laws passed by Parliament since 1994, but key legislative changes are still required, says Pregs Govender, chair of the parliamentary joint standing committee on the improvement of the quality of life and status of women. The priorities she identifies are “a […]
If reverb makes it hard for you to figure out what the words to Heartbreak Hotel are, help is just a click away. All the words to Elvis’s songs are available at , which includes a photo gallery of The King, from school photographs to the lanky youth of early publicity shots to the bloated […]
Jamie Doward The story so far. Deutsche Telekom wants to get into bed with Telecom Italia. Deutsche’s ardour for a Latin lover has hurt the sensibilities of France Tlcom which, via its membership of the Global One consortium, had been enjoying a threesome with the German telco and American company Sprint. However, British Telecom (BT), […]
In light of the falling rand and the uncertainty in the share market, investing abroad is a very good idea, writes Donna Block What world markets are going to do these days is anyone’s guess. You might as well get out the old crystal ball. One thing that is certain though is the demand for […]
If HIV/Aids infection continues at its current rate, the gap in the productive workforce could be devastating. Aaron Nicodemus reports For a country like South Africa, the worst part about Aids is who it kills. Unlike the bubonic plague that devastated Europe centuries ago, Aids does not prey upon the weak, the old and the […]
Cameron Duodu:LETTER FROM THE NORTH `This is not my house!” the little boy shrieked. By one of those magical interconnections that our brains are capable of, I immediately realised what had happened. My five-year-old kid had been collected by someone else from his school, and another kid brought to mine. A thousand scenarios, each riddled […]
Theatre:Alex Dodd What’s the point in writing a play about racial prejudice in contemporary South Africa, about the failings of the rainbow nation project and then presenting it to an almost completely white audience? A bit like attempting to tango solo. This is what must have been stumping ad man John Hunt when he first […]