With sound financial strategies, investors can make money by investing in volatile Internet shares. Donna Block explains They climb to incredible heights and then crash and burn with deadly speed. They trade at unearthly earnings to price multiples and don’t expect to make a cent for years. They’re the Internet stocks. And no sector on […]

EUROPEAN soccer’s governing body, Uefa, forced Fifa president Sepp Blatter to back down on his plan to stage the World Cup every two years on Wednesday – but both sides have not ruled it out in the long term. “We have 10 years to discuss this project. Before then it will not be an actuality,” […]

Chris McGreal in Lagos The most powerful voice in Nigerian politics is not running for president in this week’s elections, or even bidding for a seat in Parliament. It has not had anything to say about the ballot which many Nigerians only half- heartedly believe will really bring an end to decades of military rule […]

Charlene Smith The Centre for Applied Legal Studies (Cals) and the National Association for People with Aids (Napwa) are planning a test case to challenge Minister of Health Nkosazana Zuma’s decision not to let state hospitals use the drug AZT to slow down transmission rates between HIV-positive mothers and their babies. The case, which will […]

Andrew Muchineripi Soccer The South African team that faces Gabon at Odi Stadium on Saturday in an African Nations Cup Group Four qualifier will bear little resemblance to the one that overcame Botswana last weekend. Only Orlando Pirates midfielders Thabo Mngomeni and John Moeti seem certain to start again, with defender Aaron Mokoena, midfielder Lovers […]

Aaron Nicodemus It was 4am on a Saturday morning, and Matsietsi Mohaka was alone behind a thin hospital curtain. Five months pregnant with complications related to diabetes, she had come to Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital 11 hours earlier, expecting someone to help her. Her body was racked with pain for most of the night, but […]

Matthew Krouse Down the tube Who believes that Isabel Jones – television’s supreme protector of consumers’ rights – agreed to demonstrate Verimark’s kitchen twister as part of her near-religious plight to offer society a better deal? Like all mortals, it seems that Jones also has her price. For that she can be forgiven; but the […]

Donna Block Last June, President Nelson Mandela made an unexpected appearance at a European Union summit in Cardiff, Wales, hoping that his arrival might prompt the signing of a promised bilateral trade deal. But the Europeans would not put pen to paper. Six months later at a summit in Vienna, Austria, they promised a deal […]

A STRIKE at Johannesburg International airport has grounded over 50 planes, including one bound for the Face of Africa modelling competition, and passengers leaving one flight were assaulted an eyewitness told the Mail & Guardian’s Belinda Beresford. The protest is over an allegedly faulty tender process for some airport services. One British Airways flight unloaded […]