Rehana Rossouw PW BOTHA could face two years behind bars if he remains opposed to testifying before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission after it begins its work next year. His defiant refusal this week to “repent” before the commission could see him falling foul of the law. The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act […]

Are there any solutions to prevent sophisticated fraud syndicates plundering our credit card accounts? asks Karen Harverson CREDIT cards represent convenience to card holders, big business for banking institutions and increasingly, easy pickings for criminals. Credit card fraud, estimated at millions of dollars a year worldwide, has more than doubled in South Africa this year, […]

Luanda’s market grew from a rubbish tip to an open-air shopper’s mecca that offers a glimmer of hope for Angola, writes Phillip van Niekerk LUANDA’S market began on the edge of the city’s rubbish tip, in the shade of a baobab tree, in the late Seventies, as a blackmarket for United States dollars and scarce […]

Joe Slovo describes his relationship with Ruth First, in the second of our series of extracts from his unfinished autobiography WHILE studying for my LLB, I was employed in the offices of Jack Levitan, an attorney. Early in 1948 he sent me to assist advocate Fred Zwarenstein in the defence of the Lefela brothers in […]

Black is beautiful, but that doesn’t mean local black models are getting assignments, finds Hazel Friedman BLACK might be beautiful and local downright lekker, but in the ramp ‘n vamp world of modeldom, black is black, local is local, and rarely the twain do meet. While most of the white beaus and babes gracing the […]

THE government in the Eastern Cape, one of South Africa’s most impoverished regions, has started a monthly newspaper with a projected budget of more than R1-million for the next six months. Acting premier Smuts Ngonyama said the Eastern Cape Review, launched in Bisho on Wednesday, would be a vehicle for communication, focusing on development issues. […]

Louise Flanagan THE South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has refused to disclose details of any links between Military Intelligence (MI) and individuals in a private security company accused of running a destabilisation campaign against the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa). This raises the possibility that MI may still have well-hidden links […]

With the advent of portable office technology one need never be away from work, reports Leon Perlman NOW that global system’s mobile (GSM) cellular telephony has firmly entrenched itself as a pivotal business productivity tool, a new breed of Virtual Office workers using “Portable Office” technology is beginning to emerge. These “offices” typically consist of […]

Niel Bierbaum NATIONAL radio stations have continued to lose audiences at an alarming rate. The figures show that Afrikaans Stereo, SAfm, 5FM and Radio 2000 have all lost listenership over the past six months, continuing a downward trend that began two years ago. Likewise, a number of the African language stations have also lost audience, […]