Competition Board chairman Pierre Brooks is sharply critical of a culture of anti-competitive behaviour in South African business, Reg Rumney reports Tougher competition policy is necessary and is on the way, promises Competition Board chairman Pierre Brooks. In an interview with Business Mail this week Brooks sharply criticised the pervasive disregard for anti- competitive behaviour […]

Dr NS Kekana SOUTH Africa needs a foreign policy which will allow it to emerge as the leader of Africa. It is now a year since a Minister of Foreign Affairs was appointed, but he has yet to point out the direction that should be taken in foreign policy. The failure of the minister to […]

Karen Harverson Construction of the R205-million Sandton Hilton will be the first concrete result of Malaysian investment interest in South Africa. Construction will begin at the end of the month with completion due by June 1997. The project is a 70/30 joint venture between Malaysian businessman Amin Shah and local consortium Team Development Concepts and […]

Despite a Constitutional Court ruling, children are still being sentenced to whippings as punishment for petty offences, writes Annicia Reddiar WHIPPING of juvenile offenders has not stopped in all of South Africa, in spite of a Constitutional Court ban more than two months ago. And fingers are being pointed at Justice Minister Dullah Omar for […]

It has been well said that South African journalism has been reduced to a wasteland during the apartheid years — censorship and oppression driving some of its brighter talents out of the industry, or out of the country, and Bantu Education doing its best to ensure immediately succeeding generations were ill-qualified to fill the vacuum. […]

Duncan Mackay explains how the dash for cash is manipulated by the world’s top athletes A FUNNY thing happened to Moses Kiptanui on his way to winning a third 3 000m steeplechase title in Gothenburg recently. He suddenly slowed down when he realised he might break the world record. “I want to save that for […]

According to the as yet unreleased IBA report, the SABC will be divested of one of its channels, to be sold to private interests, reports Justin Pearce The South African Broadcasting Corporation will lose one of its three television channels at the end of 1997, to make room for South Africa’s first privately owned, free […]

Coloured people are examining their identity in a non- racial South Africa, writes Gaye Davis RHODA Khadalie describes her ethnicity as “purely incidental”. Her grandfather, a Malawian, came to the Cape where he married her Cape Malay grandmother. Had they returned to his homeland, she too would have been a Malawian. As it was, they […]

Karen Harverson Gencor’s Impala Platinum (Implats), the world’s second- largest platinum producer, is looking at projects to increase the amount of platinum it recovers from ore. This is cheaper than increasing the amount of ore The group produces more than a million ounces of platinum a year from both Merensky and UG2 ores. Implats is […]

Pat Sidley THE mortuary at GaRankuwa Hospital has no drainage for its 66 “fridges”, its inadequate power supply is strained by having to cool too many bodies and its floor is “in a noticeably poor condition”. For those still alive at the hospital complex, things aren’t much better, according to a report after a visit […]