China, recognised last week by President Mandela, has one of the world’s worst human rights records, says Guy Liberman PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela’s controversial choice of the People’s Republic of China over Taiwan may appear to be economically motivated – a triumph of realpolitik – but he has given his support to a regime akin to […]

Jennifer Steyn, one of the UCT drama school’s 1980s `wunderclass’ and currently acting in Skylight, tells HAZELFRIEDMAN about her lessons in life `ACTUALLY, I know nothing about anything.” Jennifer Steyn runs a momentarily flustered hand through her hair. With an extraordinary combination of dizziness and down-to- earthness, she has just bee n providing me with […]

Lynda Loxton AS the provinces gear up to grant much- sought-after casino licences, Safren is hoping that it will not be left out on a limb with its massive investments in casinos in the former homelands. Chairman Buddy Hawton admitted to shareholders at the group’s annual general meeting this week that uncertainty about the future […]

Lynda Loxton SOUTH AFRICAN financial institutions are honing their investment skills in preparation for the lifting of the remaining exchange controls. More and more are taking advantage of the provision allowing them to invest 10% of their assets offshore by launching innovative funds that enable investors to gain exposure to foreign assets via their normal […]

FILM: Andrew Worsdale `OH Shucks!” you might say, “there’s another Schuster movie opening countrywide.” Many culture vultures and intellectuals regard Leon Schuster as a schlockmeister; but his continual success at the box-office (There’s A Zulu on My Stoep outperformed Die Hard with a Vengeance in Germany and his films have sold to over 40 countries […]

Mungo Soggot EDWARD Dutton, the flamboyant Johannesburg businessman who fled his R205-million forex fraud trial to Australia three years ago, has been released from jail after a Sydney court ruled he should not be extradited to South Africa. South African officials working on the case are baffled by the outcome of the hearing which last […]

Jacquie Golding-Duffy THE Mail & Guardian 1996 Student Media Award for the best student newspaper was won by the University of Cape Town for its publication, Varsity. The newspaper won as it offered “the most diverse look at campus life”, with stories of the state of resident housing and controversies on campus. The judges included […]

Mungo Soggot FINANCE WEEK has been buoying its circulation figures by sending about 2 000 copies of the publication each week to hotel chain City Lodge, which in exchange enjoys free advertising in the financial magazine. This means 15% of all Finance Week copies sold – R12 000 worth – are given away to readers. […]

Give the land back, or develop it? Cato Manor presents the Land Claims Court with its first dilemma. Ann Eveleth reports PENSIONERS Agrippa Cebekhulu (65), Albert Ngwane (67) and Johannes Dlamini (69) grew up side by side in a freehold section of Cato Manor known as Good Hope Estate, on the border of present-day Chesterville. […]