FOUR new caps have been chosen for the South African Sevens team to participate in the Fiji Sevens on March 12 and 13, rugby administrators announced in Cape Town on Wednesday. South Western Districts wings Paul Treu and Wayne Munn, Blue Bulls flyhalf Daniel Grobler and Western Province wing Herman Mostert will make their debut […]

MINISTER of Education Professor Sibusiso Bengu has launched a probe into tampering in the calculation of scores in last year’s Mpumalanga matric exams. The province produced a pass rate of 72,5%, some 26,5% higher than the previous year. Bengu cited what he called “prima facie evidence of tampering” in the scores, and has involved the […]

`lunch’ The sign at the door kindly reminds you that it is a naked club and that you’re to hand over your clothes to the barman, who’s wearing nothing but a cock ring and boots. There are some “first-timers” who usually sit in the back and have to pay R2 more for drinks for not […]

Robert Kirby FINAL POSTPONEMENT: REMINISCENCES OF A CROWDED LIFE by Cecil Margo (Jonathan Ball) On the back of the dustcover of Judge Cecil Margo’s autobiography is a photograph of the author who stands in front of a painting depicting an extraordinary sight. As it might have been seen from the air, this is the virtually […]

Mungo Soggot and Belinda Beresford Magnus Heystek is fighting a summons from a businesswoman after he allegedly breached the terms of an out-of-court settlement for more than half-a-million rand. Last year the financial guru settled with Beulah Bonugli for the full R655 000 she had demanded. The dispute stemmed from a share deal he had […]

David Shapshak The 3D Internet dream is getting a little closer to reality with the launch of a new generation of Pentium chips from microprocessor manufacturer Intel. The Pentium III is the latest in Intel’s processors that enhance computers’ multi- media functions, but is primarily aimed at improving the way 3D and video content is […]

Ferial Haffajee A concerted effort to Africanise the leadership of SABC television news for the first time has sown tension in the country’s largest and most powerful newsroom. The installation of a new guard, led by journalists Phil Molefe and Snuki Zikalala, coincides with allegations that TV news coverage is growing increasingly establishment. Radical change […]

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has carried its famous name for better than a century. Now that it is moving physically to Sandton (actually, opposite the comfortable Balalaika Hotel in leafy Sandhurst), should it retain that title? For that matter, why is it moving out of Johannesburg’s rapidly dying heart at all? The arguments in […]

Wage negotiations for the public sector began late this week, amid increasing criticism of the Public Sector Bargaining Council for ignoring the fact that high salary bills cut into the ability of provinces to deliver services. Tabled wage demands ranged from 9,5% to 15%. In Mpumalanga last week, for instance, MEC for Finance Lassy Chiwayo […]

ERNIE Els was eliminated from the opening-round at the Match Play Championships in California on Wednesday. The seventh-ranked player and the winner three days earlier at Riviera, lost to 58th-ranked Paul Azinger on the 18th hole, 1 up. Several of the world’s elite golfers were eliminated from the competition that pays the winner $1-million. The […]