Trevor Manuel talks to Madeleine Wackernagel about the successful European roadshow and his optimism about our economic prospects Five European cities in as many days is “hell on the body, but great for the country”, says Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, citing the DM500-million Eurobond issue as evidence of a successful tour. Now he has to […]

Marion Edmunds Health Department Director General Olive Shisana has personally petitioned outgoing British high commissioner Sir Anthony Reeve more than once this year in a bid to stop South African doctors finding employment in British state hospitals. While there are rumours of diplomatic agitation behind the scenes at Shisana’s forthrightness, British diplomats say there was […]

Gaye Davis A FORMER Inkatha Freedom Party member in the Western Cape has launched a R100 000 damages suit against the party for defamation. Cape Town civil engineer George Shuttleworth was dismissed from a steering committee organising the 1992 launch of the Inkatha Freedom Party in the Western Cape and had his party membership suspended […]

While the great privatisation debate rages on, changes are taking place at grassroots level, writes Max Gebhardt The apparent change of heart by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on privatisation has been greeted as a positive move by both business and the government. Sam Shilowa, general secretary of Cosatu, endorsed partial privatisation […]

Gaye Davis A DELEGATION from Indonesian-occupied East Timor left South Africa this week with an assurance from President Nelson Mandela that donations to the African National Congress by the Indonesian government would not make “a hostage” of South African foreign policy. Jorge Ramos Horta, who represents the East Timorese resistance movement, said Mandela gave the […]

SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi ‘VISION 2000″ screamed the headlines when ambitious plans were announced to ensure the qualification of the national Under-23 side for the Sydney Olympics in the year 2000. But when the the names of the Sasol Super Squad were announced for last week’s friendly against Namibia, there was definitely no vision, but more […]

The Springboks recently lost a test series on home soil against the All Blacks for the first time in their history, but it’s not the first time Louis Luyt has been embroiled in controversy. Katy Bauer reports A CROWDED Johannesburg bar during one of the recent matches between South Africa and New Zealand. The Boks […]

Nick Varley THE outsiders, Pulp, have won the Mercury Music Prize and presented the R175 000 to the music business charity aiding Bosnia. With the hot pre-award favourites, Oasis, absent on tour in America, judges narrowed the short-list of 10 down to two contenders: Pulp and the veteran folk performer, Norma Waterson. Simon Frith, chairman […]

The archetypal Nineties youth was just the creation of marketing hype, writes Martin Wroe THEY are the no-job, no-prospect, no-hope teenagers and twentysomethings, the so-called “slacker” generation — except that these archetypal youths of the Nineties may not actually exist. Speakers at a conference on European youth this week will tell delegates that Generation X […]

Five years of economic expansion in the US and the stock market is riding high, but the sceptics believe confidence is being confused with complacency. Tom Petruno reports The stock market got it right. As usual. While the bond market continued to have its ups and downs in August and early September, sweating over the […]