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. […]

This week’s guest writer Mandla Langa looks at one of the human tragedies behind taxi violence AT 45, Charles Z Dlamini can cram myriad lifetimes into his own uncertain one. His bloodshot eyes have that long-distant, unsurprised look reminiscent of habitual survivors. Descended from a branch of the royal Swazi house and raised in Mpumalanga, […]

Mail & Guardian Reporters TAIWAN on Thursday hit back at South Africa’s decision to cut diplomatic ties, announcing it would shelve most of its aid projects in South Africa and recall its ambassador. Foreign Minister John Chang told a press conference in Pretoria that 85% to 90% of its aid projects would only be resumed […]

The Million Dollar Challenge is a unique event, and this year the play was of an exceptionally high standard, but the spectators’ behaviour wasn’t GOLF:Jon Swift T HERE are many things that are very different about the annual Nedbank Million Dollar Challenge at Sun City … and not all of them have to do with […]