The first stop for Investment South Africa=20 is South-East Asia and interest is strong,=20 Rafiq Bagus tells Madeleine Wackernagel RAFIQ BAGUS’S new job is persuading=20 foreigners to invest in South Africa. No=20 easy task given the fear of crime, but in=20 his previous incarnation at Wesgro, he was=20 instrumental in bringing Levi Strauss to=20 the […]

Stephen Gray THE BUCHAN PAPERS by JDF Jones (Harvill, R79,95) THE great pleasure of a literary hoax is external to the book itself. Did JDF Jones really recently discover the manuscript of this lost John Buchan novel, tied in a dusty pink ribbon, among the Lionel Phillips papers in the Barlow-Ra nd archives, and rig […]

Marion Edmunds PENSION fraud is costing South Africa at least R1-billion a year, and only direct government control of the welfare system can stop it, a government task team says. The task team – the Committee For Restructuring of Social Security, led by Reverend Frank Chikane – says the current province-based system of handing out […]

Anthony Egan STEVE BIKO: I WRITE WHAT I LIKE – A SELECTION OF HIS WRITINGS edited by Aelred Stubbs (Ravan, R49,99) HAD he not been murdered by security police in 1977, Steve Biko would be 50 no w. Where he would have stood in today’s political environment is anybody’s gue ss, but in the end […]

TECHNO: Greg Bowes IN the era of massive warehouse raves and superclubs, DJs have become more tha n just folk who mix records – some have become as big as pop stars. When Boy G eorge DJ’d in Johannesburg last year a 14 000 strong crowd turned up to see hi m, surely as many […]

Expenditure was up in the last financial=20 year, but so was revenue. The government’s=20 target deficit of 5,1% will still be met,=20 reports Lynda Loxton THE government has revised expenditure in=20 the 1996/97 Budget by R3,4-billion to=20 R176,5-billion and is confident that it=20 will still achieve a deficit of 5,1%,=20 Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said […]

Julia Grey CHRISTA MEDERI has happy chickens. They have “a nice house”, where they come and go as they please, according to their own fowl habits. They are fed mainly on a diet of organically grown greens, freshly picked. These stress-free and healthy chickens produce eggs that have an extra yellow yolk and greater nutritional […]

M&G reporter JUDITH EDSTROM, the World Bank’s resident=20 representative in South Africa, is keen to=20 dispel fears surrounding the operations of=20 the institution in this country. In a=20 recent briefing to the South African=20 Institute for International Affairs, she=20 emphasised the partnership aspects. “The relationship between the bank and=20 South Africa has in many respects […]

GOLF:Jon Swift NICK PRICE has gone winless for 14 months. It is not the first time that he has gone through a barren spell as a professional golfer. But Price’s eventual elevation to the ranks of the major winners and the world’s No 1 spot were as much a token of his ability to accept […]

Charl Blignaut IT was probably a song like Jong Dames Dinamiek (referring to a young women’s cultural group established under National Party rule) that did it. So upset we re the censors in 1990 that they banned the album Die Saai Lewe (The Tedious L ife) by Randy Rambo en die Rough Riders – the […]