ops THE introduction of continuous operations at Johannesburg Consolidated Investment’s HJ Joel gold mine played a major part in pulling the Free State operation back from the brink. Human resources director Andre Geldenhuys says Fulco has led to a 20% jump in employees on core operations – an additional 400 jobs – improved productivity and […]

HAZEL FRIEDMAN previews Johnny Golightly’s latest collection called Love: A Retrospective WHAT do you do when the romance goes out of your relationship? “You put on your clothes and go home.” Those words are familiar to all of us who’ve gone looking for love in all the wrong beds. But to artist John Anthony Boerma, […]

The South Africans lost the vital match and the Titan Cup, but they can take comfort from the fact that one-day matches are quickly forgotten while Test matches are the ones that are remembered CRICKET:V Roger Prabasarkar AS magnificent as South Africa’s form was in the Titan Cup, although they fell at the final hurdle, […]

Lynda Loxton AFTER months of exhaustive negotiations, three important South African trade agreements are firming up and could be concluded in the first half of 1997. Although separate, the three are also closely linked and will affect each other in vital ways which will, hopefully, benefit not only South Africa but the region as a […]

Rehana Rossouw HAROLD WILLIAMS was shot dead while carrying three dead chickens to his squatter home near Durbanville, outside Cape Town. T he chickens had been dumped by nearby chicken factories and were due to be burned. Williams, the father of two children aged 16 and 13, was shot as a trespasser while walking home […]

Andy Duffy FIRST NATIONAL BANK (FNB) has given ousted managing director Barry Swart a pay-off barely different to the salary he would have earned had he not been fired. The bank, which released its year-end results this week, is refusing to disclose terms of the settlement which were agreed to in September when Swart left […]

The flamboyant socialite and claimed friend of African National Congress leaders is being investigated for `illegal possession’ of unwrought gold worth millions.Stefaans Brmmer reports PAUL EKON, the flamboyant young millionaire who claims African National Congress leaders as friends, is being investigated by police for his possible involvement in a gold- smuggling racket which a Supreme […]

Prison warders gave prior warning of an escape in which some of their colleagues were involved, writes Ann Eveleth T HREE prisoners awaiting trial for taxi violence escaped from prison near Durban on Sunday with inside help.nnThe warders who allegedly helped the men get out of Westville Prison were also linked to the taxi industry, […]

An article published by Rapport has sparked a fierce row between two leading Afrikaners, writes Rehana Rossouw MOST readers who take umbrage against an article which appears in a newspaper will write one letter to the editor and leave it at that. But an unusual row has developed at Rapport between its editor, Izak de […]

CHARLES BESTER of Stutterheim (M&G November 1 to 7) surely has his head buried in the sand. If he listened carefully to my argument, he would understand why we need a navy. Our country has a 3 000km coastline, an Extended Economic Zone 200 nautical miles from our shores, which doubles our sovereign territory, fish […]