The EU is happy to sell its highly subsidised products to Africa but is less happy if Africa asks for a similar free- trade deal. Lynda Loxton outlines Alec Erwin’s battle TRADE and Industry Minister Alec Erwin left for Europe this week determined to persuade the European Union (EU) that any trade deal with South […]
FIVE lucky readers of the M&G’s books pages are winners in our giveaway of Edmund White’s brand new novel, The Farewell Symphony, published by Chatto &Windus. They are:Rose Cohen, Killarney; YFrame, Riviera; RHLloyd, Botha’s Hill; Mahluli Mngadi, Seapoint; and Kopano Ratele, Rondebosch. Congratulations and happy reading -your books are on their way to you. Look […]
As Nelson Mandela turns 79 on July 18, Gaye Davis looks back on his past three-and-a- half years at the helm of the government
A new generation of central bankers, unfamiliar with the perils of high inflation, could prompt a new rush for the security of gold if the present obsession with paper money turns sour, warns Dan Atkinson in London THE scramble out of gold by the world’s central banks is not novel. We have sat through this […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM THE Workers’ Mouthpeace, the trade union involved in a running war with the National Uniuon of Mineworkers at Anglo American Platinum Mines that has so far claimed eight lives, may have been set up as an elaborate insurance scam. The union, which first appeared after the crippling illegal strike at Amplats last year […]
FRIDAY, 8.30AM THE National Party lost control of Pretoria City Council — once the party’s bastion — when 10 councillors including former mayors Nico Stofberg and Piet Olivier resigned from the party on Thursday. The 10 said they will join Roelf Meyer’s New Movement Process, as they “have now finally come to the conclusion that […]
empowerment fronts’ Black security companies have won contracts amid claims of being fronts for white firms, reports Ann Eveleth RAILWAYS parastatal Spoornet is handing a huge slice of lucrative security work to a company linked to contracts currently under investigation by the Office for Serious Economic Offences (Oseo). Spoornet, a subsidiary of Transnet, said this […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM THE KwaZulu-Natal midlands town of Richmond was tense late this week as the African National Congress and expelled ANC MP Sifiso Nkabinde square up for a local council election on Sunday. Richmond’s ANC mayor of Andrew Ragavaloo said his wife heard several shots during the day but he said he was reassured by […]
certificates Justin Arenstein THE Northern Province government is investigating allegations that mortuary staff have been taking bribes to change death certificates, and to channel business to specific funeral companies. The provincial health department’s director general, Dr Nicholas Crisp, said this week the investigation is focused on the Pietersburg police forensic mortuary. His colleagues in the […]
ON any scorecard of the death sentence, the late Judge B O’Donovan handed down more death sentences than any of his colleagues. In a three-year period he sent 25 prisoners to be hanged, and in his career he handed down 39 death sentences. On the other hand, one judge, NM McArthur, never sent a single […]