We have a lift-off – of a multitude of satellites and enormous profits. Adam Sweeting looks at the amazing growth of the space business THE Apollo programme is history now, and Neil Armstrong’s “giant leap for mankind” seems about as newsworthy as the Gettysburg Address, but there is still a mystique about Cape Canaveral, like […]

Former Robben Island prisoners are bitter at not being consulted about its development, reports Rehana Rossouw FORMER Robben Island prisoners have slammed their leadership for excluding them from plans to transform the island into a monument celebrating the struggle against apartheid. They claim promises that they would benefit from the island’s development have not been […]

Many South African companies still appear to be awarding their executives increases way above the rate of inflation. Max Gebhardt reports SOUTH AFRICAN captains of industry have yet again rewarded themselves pay increases far above the rate of inflation. While calling on unions and employees to “take the pain” for the good of the economy, […]

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 […]