Kevin Mitchell blames the folly of weak and stupid men for a criminal act waiting to happen as they gamble all in Las Vegas THE brave gentlemen of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, who issued Evander Holyfield with a medical certificate last week clearing him to challenge Mike Tyson for a version of the world […]

Ian Traynor in Berlin Germany and France this week signalled their determination to merge their currencies in January 1999 as part of an overall European Monetary Union. Despite misgivings from Britain about a single currency, key finance and banking officials from the two countries moved to dovetail their fiscal policies before this weekend’s meeting of […]

RUGBY: Jon Swift IT is, given the length and public ugliness of the rugby season, gratifying that some semblance of order is about to come back into our sporting lives with the first hints of the budding cricket season ahead. This weekend there comes the chance to shake off some of the rust of inactivity […]

An American who sued Noseweek and the Cape Argus bit off more than he could chew, reports Rehana Rossouw WEALTHY American dentist Robert Hall clearly didn’t know what he was getting into when he took on the formidable, and famously eccentric, investigative journalist Martin Welz. Hall sued Welz for R550 000 and the Cape Argus […]

With the dissolution of Sadwu, domestic staff now have even fewer provisions available to protect their interests and working conditions, writes Fay Davids THE domestic worker affiliate union of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has been dissolved, leaving question marks over the effectiveness of world-class legislation about to be passed to protect […]

Trevor Manuel talks to Madeleine Wackernagel about the successful European roadshow and his optimism about our economic prospects Five European cities in as many days is “hell on the body, but great for the country”, says Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, citing the DM500-million Eurobond issue as evidence of a successful tour. Now he has to […]

Marion Edmunds Health Department Director General Olive Shisana has personally petitioned outgoing British high commissioner Sir Anthony Reeve more than once this year in a bid to stop South African doctors finding employment in British state hospitals. While there are rumours of diplomatic agitation behind the scenes at Shisana’s forthrightness, British diplomats say there was […]

Gaye Davis A FORMER Inkatha Freedom Party member in the Western Cape has launched a R100 000 damages suit against the party for defamation. Cape Town civil engineer George Shuttleworth was dismissed from a steering committee organising the 1992 launch of the Inkatha Freedom Party in the Western Cape and had his party membership suspended […]

While the great privatisation debate rages on, changes are taking place at grassroots level, writes Max Gebhardt The apparent change of heart by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on privatisation has been greeted as a positive move by both business and the government. Sam Shilowa, general secretary of Cosatu, endorsed partial privatisation […]

Gaye Davis A DELEGATION from Indonesian-occupied East Timor left South Africa this week with an assurance from President Nelson Mandela that donations to the African National Congress by the Indonesian government would not make “a hostage” of South African foreign policy. Jorge Ramos Horta, who represents the East Timorese resistance movement, said Mandela gave the […]