An Mpumalanga task team flies out to check=20 the credibility of would-be nature reserve=20 magnate amid claims of dubious deals=20 overseas. Justin Arenstein reports A MULTI-PARTY task team from the Mpumalanga=20 legislature is visiting Kenya and Dubai to=20 investigate allegations against the Dolphin=20 Group, the company that was handed control=20 over the province’s prime nature […]

A trip to Xiamen reveals a thriving metropolis. Madeleine Wackernagel reports on China’s experiment with capitalism THE brand new, marble and chrome airport at Xiamen was the first surprise. The second, how busy the city was on a Sunday night. Street cleaners were out in force, McDonald’s was doing a roaring trade and everywhere there […]

Enoch Mthembu and Ann Eveleth INKATHA Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu=20 Buthelezi called his closest party allies=20 to a secret meeting in Pretoria on January=20 23 to determine the fate of KwaZulu-Natal=20 Premier Frank Mdlalose. A senior IFP member who was briefed about=20 the meeting said it was the last in a=20 series of events that […]

GLYNISO’HARA talks to Be Like Water’s front=20 man Leonel Bastos about gender, sex,=20 lyrics, life, love – and that massive new=20 record deal PRODUCER/songwriter/guitarist/ singer=20 Leonel Bastos arrives at the interview=20 looking like a tall Buddhist pixie, his=20 head shaved, sporting round silver=20 earrings, pyjama-like pants and a sky-blue=20 T-shirt littered with blue flowers. Bass […]

Angella Johnson TWO lithesome ladies in their Limousine=20 took part in a market joyride around some=20 of Soweto and Eldorado Park’s shebeens and=20 taverns to promote Gilbey’s VO brandy and=20 Radio Metro.=20 Most of the station’s top DJs took part in=20 the unusual promotion – to the delight of a=20 few locals who turned out […]

Mungo Soggot PLANNING some cosmetic surgery, but you=20 don’t want anyone to know about it? Why not=20 throw in a trip to South Africa, visit the=20 Kruger Park and see the fairest Cape – all=20 for half what you would pay in Europe? This is the pitch Carrie Globisch, a=20 beautician, plans to make when […]

An Aids breakthrough on the other side of=20 the world puts South Africa’s hopesin=20 perspective, writes Lesley Cowling=20 AS reports of a possible cure for Aids=20 broke in South Africa last week, at the=20 other end of the world about 2 300 HIV=20 research-ers were hearing news about=20 another potent new drug that could=20 eradicate […]

Derek Hanekom said this week he was=20 piloting legislation to limit evictions of=20 rural families. But this may be too late=20 for one family, reports Rehana Rossouw=20 KATRINA WILLIAMS has lived on the farm “La=20 Verger” near Stellenbosch for 50 years,=20 working there as a domestic worker for its=20 owners for 45 years. Her loyalty […]

THE CUTTING EDGE PROFILE Marion Edmunds WHAT keeps a phenomenally intelligent,=20 internationally acclaimed, charming, A- rated scientist working and living in Cape=20 Town? “That”, says 43-year-old Professor Daya=20 Reddy, gesturing upwards to the great hulk=20 of Table Mountain whose crags loom=20 possessively over the University of Cape=20 Town’s upper campus. Reddy, who has preferred to […]