Julian Drew DESPITE the lingering suspicion in international circles that Cape Town sneaked in through the back door to become a finalist in the race to host the 2004 Olympic Games, the Mother City can now count itself as a very real contender for the elusive prize which will be awarded by the International Olympic […]

The ANC dissident has invited two disaffected politicians to join him in discussions about a new political party, reports Marion Edmunds AFRICAN National Congress dissident Bantu Holomisa is inviting both Rockey Malabane- Metsing and former Bophuthatswana president Lucas Mangope, to his consultative conference in June in anticipation of setting up a new political party. Holomisa […]

Stuart Hess AT least two of the investigators working on Sports Minister Steve Tshwete’s probe into South African rugby can draw on extensive inside knowledge of the sport’s administration. The investigation into the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) faltered last week when it emerged that the 500-page dossier containing the central allegations against Sarfu […]

South African teams have done well in the Super 12 so far, but they will have to keep concentration for the full 80 minutes of the game if they are to survive in this competition RUGBY:Jon Swift PERHAPS the Afrikaans phrases are the most apposite. They talk of murg en been in the context of […]

Alan Gray, chief executive of the Mpumalanga Parks Board who led the controversial Dolphin natures reserves deal, has wide business interests in the area, reports Justin Arenstein THE man who led Mpumalanga Parks Board into a controversial nature reserve deal with the Dubai-based Dolphin Group owns companies that hold lucrative contracts with the parks board. […]

Pirate CD producers in Eastern Europe could bring the European recording industry to its knees, reports Stuart Miller from London THE European recording industry has launched a frontal assault on the large- scale illegal production of pirate compact discs in Eastern Europe, which is costing companies and their artists billions of dollars in lost revenue […]

`Peace’ initiators are said to be holding peace to ransom, reports Ann Eveleth THE decision by the KwaZulu-Natal government to sit on a damning report linking key politicians in the province to hit-squad activity has raised fresh concerns about the region’s embryonic peace drive. A South African National Defence Force (SANDF) report leaked last week […]

Marion Edmunds THE paper trail stemming from secret six- figure payouts to senior staff at Stellenbosch University led to the rector’s office this week. Professor Andreas van Wyk, who until now has kept silent on the payouts, is being challenged on his campus to confirm or deny whether he handed himself a windfall of R160000. […]

South Africa is such a popular refugee destination that Home Affairs is swamped,reports Marion Edmunds THE Department of Home Affairs is swamped with so many applicants for political asylum it is contemplating setting up reception centres around the country to accommodate them while they wait for their cases to be heard. More than 800 people […]

Another international women’s magazine, Marie Claire, is launching a local issue, but the interests of most women in South Africa are still being neglected, say local black editors. Gillian Farquhar reports COMPETITION is hotting up in the magazine market with internationally acclaimed French title Marie Claire poised to launch its local edition in May. Coming […]