FRIDAY, 12.00NOON PRIVATISATION and restructuring of the state-owned Northern Cape Diamond mine Alexkor has been suspended by the mine’s restructuring committee after it declared a dispute with government and Alexkor’s board. The committee, made up or representatives of Alexkor management, labour, community and provincial government, said the dispute arose after Public Enterprises Minister Stella Sigcau […]

Stewart Nkosi THE only reason I sat through Jump the Gun is because I had invited a companion along and it really would have been rude of me to yank her off the seat and walk out. I did ask her whether she would mind leaving, but she wanted to see all of it. So […]

The current disinflationary policies pursued by the Reserve Bank have serious implications for growth and job creation, writes Asghar Adelzadeh in the eighth of a series on economic policy EMPLOYMENT strategies to be presented at the October job summit will remain frustrated if the costly effects of the current disinflationary policy of the Reserve Bank […]

Anthony Egan ANATOMY OF A MIRACLE: THE END OF APARTHEID AND THE BIRTH OF THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA by Patti Waldmeir (WW Norton, R134,95) SING THE BELOVED COUNTRY: THE STRUGGLE FOR THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA by Peter Hain (Plutos, R98) ALL SIDES OF THE STORY: A GRANDSTAND VIEW OF SOUTH AFRICA’S POLITICAL TRANSITION by Kaizer […]

As the Mpumalanga housing scandal escalated this week a picture emerged of a profitable schemefor its developers. Justin Arenstein, Stefaans Brmmer and Mungo Soggot report MPUMALANGA’s controversial rural housing scheme hands the developer a profit mark-up that exceeds the gains typical of low-cost housing deals. A consultant to Motheo Construction – the company set up […]

Physicists claim to have invented a meltdown-free nuclear reactor that burns radioactive waste, writes Robin McKie in Geneva SCIENTISTS have designed a nuclear reactor that they say can “burn” atomic waste. The breakthrough could solve the world’s nuclear waste crisis and save the beleaguered atomic energy industry. Experiments carried out for two years at Cern, […]

jobless’ man Anthony Kunda ZAMBIA’S President Frederick Chiluba may be a national of the newly named Democratic Republic of Congo, and as such ineligible to hold his position. Samples of Chiluba’s hair were secretly obtained and sent to laboratories in Johannesburg and London for DNA testing, according to The Post, the country’s only independent daily […]

GOOD NEWS FUEL prices will drop in South Africa on midnight on June 4; petrol will drop five cents inland and six cents at the coast, diesel will rise one cent in Gauteng, and paraffin will fall almost three cents. FREE STATE PROBES THE Free State provincial government appointed two commissions of inquiry on Friday, […]

Slower economic growth and a shift in consumer borrowing patterns point the way to a cut in interest rates in the second half of the year, reports Madeleine Wackernagel FIRST-QUARTER gross domestic product (GDP) figures, released this week, confirmed the anecdotal evidence provided by retail sales: growth is slowing down. This should soon feed through […]

FRIDAY, 9.00AM: THREE big matches have been scheduled for veteran South African heavyweight boxers over the next few weeks. Former WBA champion Gerrie Coetzee hits the comeback trail when he faces ex-WBC middleweight champion Iran “Oh No” Barkley in California on June 8. Johnnie Du Plooy will fight Benjamin Manyube in Durban on June 15. […]