Mungo Soggot THE latest batch of temporary judges appointed to the Transvaal Bench includes two leading lights from the Black Lawyers Association, one of whom has seven years’ experience at the Bar. Johannesburg advocates say the appointment of Vincent Maleka and Ismail Semenya, who started at the Bar in 1989 and 1986 respectively, confirmed that […]

Angella Johnson THOUSANDS of people in Mpumalanga and the Western Cape have lost millions of rands following the collapse this week of a Cape Town pyramid investment scheme which targeted born-again Christians. Liquidators are to be appointed to deal with the Two H Group: they estimate that more than R100-million is involved. A police docket […]

ANDREW WORSDALE reports on Ties of Blood, a new TV documentary NIGHT after night television viewers are subjected to a barrage of material about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. So why make a 40-minute documentary about the guilt and violence of the past? Ties of Blood, which flights on SABC3 at 8.15pm on December 16 […]

Lynda Loxton THE increased globalisation of the world economy is expected to have wide-ranging effects on both investors and consumers, Old Mutual International Asset Managers economic strategist Nigel Morgan said this week. Briefing journalists on his latest Market Focus, Morgan outlined why the kind of “neo- liberal” policies detested by Cosatu and others were needed […]

The collapse of Mobutu Sese Seko’s control in Zaire has highlighted declining French influence. Chris McGreal in Kigali and David Harrison in Cameroon report ZAIRE’S cancer-ridden president, Mobutu Sese Seko, was carried to his latest television interview on a stretcher. Propped up in a chair in the plush French villa he may never leave, Zaire’s […]

Sometimes an unbeaten record can be as much of a burden as a bad run of losses CRICKET:V Roger Prabasarkar LIKE painters, musicians and sculptors, cricketers are very often not appreciated until they are dead – or at least retired. India seems to be full of “former greats” at the moment, many of whom were […]

Hazel Friedman The Cape Town Symphony Orchestra (CTSO) will close unless R2-million is found before next Tuesday. This is the warning of CTSO publicist Shirley de Kock, who has embarked on a desperate rescue mission to save the beleagured orchestra. If the 82-year old veteran goes under, De Kock says, the future of the SABC’s […]

THEATRE: Sifiso Maseko AT its best Booksy, Cooksy, Doopsy at the Windybrow Theatre in Johannesburg is an elaborate orgy of uncomfortable orgasms. Few plays can claim to revolt our sense of dignity and ideals, yet find our sympathy. The comedy that recently won the Windybrow’s annual community arts festival, it is set somewhere within the […]

Stefaans Brmmer STRICT vegetarians beware – fish ingredients, although filtered out, may well be used in the brewing of your favourite beer. The “war” between South African Breweries (SAB), the largest player in the South African beer market, and the Windhoek-based Namibia Breweries, probably SAB’s most serious contender, escalated this week with SAB conceding that […]

Mail & Guardian Reporters FRANOIS PIENAAR’S agent, Zimbabwean businessman John Bredenkamp, has dismissed as “lies” the allegations that he was a top arms dealer. Bredenkamp said the Mail & Guardian in its article last week had repeated “lies” aired by Britain’s Channel 4, which broadcast a programme two years ago claiming he had conducted a […]