An American institute is offering to raise us from the dead – at a price, writes Sue Nelson ACCORDING to legend, every 500 years the phoenix, a mythical Arabian bird, would fling itself on to a funeral pyre. But instead of dying, it would rise from the ashes with renewed vigour. It’s an appealing tale. […]
Angella Johnson BRITISH AIRWAYS (BA) took what it described as a major step in consolidating its position as a “global airline” when it became the first national carrier to dump its country’s flag from the corporate logo to broaden the company’s appeal. Instead of a single identity, BA’s planes will sport 50 different images created […]
FRIDAY, 11.30AM A CAMBRIDGE University academic, in a wide-ranging report on industrial policy, has criticised the Reserve Bank’s restrictive monetary policy as “uninformed’ and serving the interests of the financial sector to the detrimient of industry. In a working paper prepared for the policy think-tank Trade and Industrial Policy Secretariat, Ha-Joon Chang said industrial policy-makers […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM: APPEALS against their doping sentences by banned rugby players Johan Ackerman, of Northern Tranvaal, and Bennie Nortje and Stefan Bronkhorst of Gauteng, were rejected on Thursday by the South African Rugby Football Union. The players have been sentenced with a two-year banning after testing positive for illegal substances earlier this season. Sarfu CE […]
There’s more to Jean Paul Gaultier than funny bras and Eurotrash. He talks to SUSANNAH FRANKEL about styling The Fifth Element JEAN PAUL GAULTIER’s peroxide blond crop is resting on a sea of puffed up, chintz- covered pillows in his decidedly genteel hotel suite. Clad in the requisite matelot T-shirt, stove-pipe trousers and ugly shoes […]
Julian Drew IF Bruce Fordyce was South Africa’s Comrades star of the 1980s – and indeed of all time – with his incredible tally of nine victories, South Africa’s star of the 1990s is undeniably Shaun Meiklejohn. He may have only one victory in what is a far more competitive era than the days when […]
Mungo Soggot MINERAL and Energy Affairs Minister Penuell Maduna still has to inform the auditor general why he publicly ousted his top oil official. His reticence is fuelling fears that an expensive four-month probe has found no evidence against the official, Kobus van Zyl. The auditor general’s office said this week that Maduna’s investigating team […]
The fountain of youth that doesn’t run dry with age In South Africa, the definition of youth could fall anywhere between birth and mid- 30s. Maria McCloy considers how the lines have been blurred in today’s society YOUTH, /ju:q/ n. (pl.youths/ju:qz/) 1. the state of being young; the period between childhood and adult age. 2. […]
FRIDAY, 5.30PM FORMER Absa bank executive Bob Aldworth was on Friday sentenced to a fine of R100 000 of six years’ imprisonment for fraud in the Johannesburg Regional Court. Aldworth, who originally faced 10 charges of corruption, theft and fraud totalling R8-million, last week pleaded guilty to a single fraud charge involving R414 000. Eight […]
An insurance company is criticised for using a lie-detector test before paying claims, reports Faizel Cook `IS today Monday?” “Yes” “Are you planning to lie to me during this test?””No” “Did you submit a fraudulent claim to your insurance company?” “No!” And if you’re telling the truth, that should be the end of what is […]