THE ANGELLA JOHNSON INTERVIEW SHE sits across the table, carving enthusiastically into a large steak. “Garlic, love it, but it’s bad for business.” Tonight Sandy van der Toorn is off duty. There will be no fondling in the jacuzzi, no whipping clients hanging like carcasses from pulleys in the ceiling, no naked massages and definitely […]
Stefaans Brmmer TRANSKEI Attorney General Christo Nel will prosecute casino magnate Sol Kerzner – provided Kerzner’s pre-emptive attempt to stop him fails. Nel, who has waged an often single-handed campaign to have the R2-million bribery and corruption charges against Kerzner tested in court, was restrained in an 11th-hour interim interdict this week from arresting Kerzner […]
Robin McKie in London ON the North Sea floor, off the Farne Islands, scientists have discovered a mysterious gathering place for grey seals. It is the aquatic equivalent of a favourite country pub. Some seals will swim hundreds of miles through murky seas just to visit it. The discovery has baffled researchers, who cannot explain […]
As expected, the Budget held few surprises. But one thing is sure, this has to be the year of delivery, writes Madeleine Wackernagel TREVOR MANUEL is not the only optimist on the state of South Africa’s economy: the latest edition of The Economist magazine states: “A real turnaround seems to be under way.” And Manuel’s […]
HEADLINES in some South African newspapers this week – “Madiba back from Asia with billions” – reflect the obsession South Africa has with the quick fix. Faced with massive social problems the country longs for a magic formula, or simply a magician, to conjure up instant solutions. The Sultan of Brunei is the richest man […]
Gavin Dudley THE first second of the year 2000 will see your personal history vanish forever. At least as far as your bank, government and insurance company are concerned. And perhaps it is typical that these bureaucracies do not seem disturbed at this prospect. More than 80% of the computers controlling the obvious and invisible […]
Rip Hopkins IN the capital of Madagascar, Antananarivo, thousands of children live on the streets. Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in the world and the capital sees the extremes of its poverty. The children, some as young as six months old, survive in gangs of 30 or so. Some sleep in skips or […]
Coaches of South African teams don’t have it easy, but coaching Nigeria’s Super Eagles is even harder SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi PERHAPS there are more difficult assignments than coaching the Nigerian national football team. Swimming a crocodile-infested river or walking blindfolded across a minefield spring to mind, but the list is pretty short. So when former […]
The selectors are right to bring in some young blood against the Australians, but they also need the coolness of experience in the heat of battle CRICKET:Jon Swift IN times of crisis, it is a very human response to bring in the strength and exuberance of youth. Here, you feel, is the next link in […]
Gustav Thiel THE tobacco industry has been unanimous in its condemnation of the 52% increase in excise duty on cigarettes, saying it “is yet another punitive increase which discriminates against a third of the country’s adults”. In his address to Parliament on Wednesday, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said “substantial increases in the excise duties on […]