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 […]

A secret memorandum reveals details of Project Natural, the latest weapon in the beer battle, reports Stefaans Brmmer A LEAKED internal memorandum shows how brewing giant South African Breweries (SAB) went on a near-war footing – in a multi- million rand campaign dubbed “Project Natural” – which enforces a company line on its products in […]

The new student leader aims to introduce a code of conduct that will clean up campuses, reports Joshua Amupadhi THE new president of South Africa’s leading student body is determined to end the widespread perception of his organisation as a trasher of campuses. Andile Sihlahla, elected last week to lead the South African Students’ Congress […]

Pro Sano, the third-largest medical aid scheme in the country, has run up R90- million losses and now faces serious charges of bribery and corruption. Marion Edmunds and Mungo Soggot report A TOP medical aid scheme for public servants is on the verge of collapse, racked by financial mismanagement and corruption allegedly involving leading insurance […]