Mail & Guardian Reporter APPELLATE Division Judge Joos Hefer, the champion of apartheid emergency legislation who called on Ismail Mahomed to withdraw from the race for chief justice, now has some unlikely spiritual allies across the Atlantic. They are the black activists who tried, but failed, to prevent Margaret Marshall, a South African-born lawyer, from […]

Cooking the books may prove less than lucrative in the future if auditing groups have their way, reports Andy Duffy CORPORATE South Africa’s often cavalier attitude to financial reporting can mislead investors and deter foreign interest, according to the firms which check companies’ accounts. Though most of the companies’ accounting ploys are legitimate, they can […]

Max Gebhardt AS the rand continued plummeting this week, Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel said the proper response to the currency’s woes lay in the steady implementation of the government’s macro-economic strategy. The market didn’t agree with him, with many traders blaming the rand’s spiral on a lack of a coherent policy. The rand notched […]

As India struggle to find form, the whole South African team has contributed to a great winning percentage CRICKET:V Roger Prabasarkar ‘CAN India stop the SA juggernaut?” intoned the local daily newspaper in Rajkot on the day before South Africa’s third game against the host nation before the visitors’ penultimate match in the round-robin phase […]

RUGBY: Jon Swift Defeat on the Springbok tour that gets under way this week could be disastrous for Andre Markgraaff’s ‘vision’ AMID the emotional storm which has raged around the Springbok touring squad, the dissatisfaction about financial packages for the players and the rank idiocy of the nutters of the game issuing death threats to […]

confessions Behind Johan van der Merwe’s brief confession at the truth commission this week lies a last-ditch effort by the amnesty applicants to escape prosecution, writes Eddie Koch SOME city hall staff had to drag in a metal table from the kitchen so that all the lawyers in the house could be properly accommodated. Long-awaited […]

Lynda Loxton FINANCE Minister Trevor Manuel this week sent a strong signal to errant taxpayers that the time had come for them to pay up – or else. So confident was he that he announced a package of “relief” measures aimed at luring more taxpayers into the tax net even though the state stood to […]

Exposing the dirty deeds of the apartheid death squads was a cleansing experience for Jacques Pauw, writes Angella Johnson ONE of the most poignant moments in Jacques Pauw’s remarkable two-hour television documentary on mass murderer Eugene de Kock was the moment he faced the camera and confronted his own apartheid ghost: the role he played […]

Ernie Els is really just one of the boys – except when he’s displaying his exceptional talents on the golf course GOLF:David Davies THE Christian names are Ernest Theodore but, if ever a man was an Ernie, it is the golfer who on Sunday became the first person to win the Toyota World Match Play […]

LOCAL production company Penguin Films is going through the roof – what with its sit- com series Going Up beating Soul City to the top of the TV ratings with a combined adult and youth audience of 3,5-million, and a new character-based drama series Gaabo Motho, scripted by renowned author, anti-apartheid activist and medical doctor […]