Ann Eveleth Crime along Durban’s beachfront was at an all-time low this Christmas season, according to city officials. Fear of beachfront violence saw several businesses close on certain days and surround their premises with razor-wire in advance of the holiday season. While the local press shrieked “Bloody beachfront” headlines during the holiday period, SAPS director […]

Robots are efficient workers who don’t get bored, don’t ask for a pay rise and don’t want your job. Or do they? Sue Nelson reports Does the future belong to humans or machines? Science fiction usually portrays robots as inheriting the Earth but, in contrast to these ominous forecasts, most scientists predict mutual and helpful […]

Jimmy and Louise Warner, both 53, are about to start new careers. He will work from their Rondebosch home for Cape estate agents Steer & Co, and she will help with the typing. In Eldorado Park, Johannesurg, Anthony Swartz (50) is also starting afresh, going into a business which he doesn’t want to talk about […]

Mungo Soggot The privatisation of Sun Air is galloping ahead, with the Transport Department set to interview on Friday advisers who will start work on Monday. The shortlist of three possible advisers for the R200-million airline sale comprises banking group Investec, a partnership between investment bank BoE NatWest and Johannesburg law firm Moseneke & Partners, […]

Our critics look at movies to be produced in South Africa this year, and the most hyped of the international releases Andrew Worsdale THIS year promises to be the brightest in years for South Africa’s film industry, with loads of movies in development and several sure to see their first day of shooting some time […]

Marion Edmunds Angola’s peace process needs to be extended by two to three months to give Uniaco Nacional para a (Unita) and Movimento Popular de Libertacao de Angola (MPLA) leaders more time to negotiate Jonas Savimbi’s role in the Angolan government, said Freedom Front leader General Constand Viljoen, after a meeting with Savimbi mid- week. […]

The culture in the newly integrated army is still white, causing widespread racial problems. Rehana Rossouw reports AT least four soldiers in the South African National Defence Force are currently being court-martialed on charges of alleging that their commanding officer was racist. The prosecutions appear to reflect widespread race problems in the newly integrated SA […]

circles Marion Edmunds Tension is rising between the intelligence services and their parliamentary watchdog, the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence, over the government’s bungling of the appointment of the country’s first inspector general, Louis Skweyiya. As government officials and parliamentarians cast around to find a scapegoat for Skweyiya’s premature resignation – before he had even […]

Golf: Jon Swift It is one of the inevitable facts that, having placed the focus on making the FNB Tour part of the European Circuit, that the major focus on professional golf will centre on three weeks in February. In truth, there is little else that the South African PGA could have done but to […]

Jonathan Romney HERE’S the bad news: 1997 promises to be pretty much like 1996 all over again. Wall- to-wall space aliens and natural disasters. If you can’t face the prospect, you could always hibernate all year with a stout volume of Henry James. But that won’t help you forget the movies – he’s this year’s […]