Views on where housing prices are headed are mixed — but economic growth and the RDP hold the key, reports Reg House prices are still set to show real gains this year, according to property economist Erwin Rode. He is still forecasting a 15 percent average increase this year. This is despite what Absa Bank’s […]
Peter Marais, Western Cape MEC for Local Government, in The Mark Gevisser Profile I will testify, before a court of law, that Western Cape MEC for Local Government Peter Marais was stone- cold sober when, at the end of our interview, he launched into a serenade that included a hip-rotating Elvis impersonation, some Johnny Mathis […]
Justin Pearce Sixty-five-year-old Koos Joubert locked horns with the mighty Anglo American Corporation — and lost. After an out-of-court settlement this week, the Eastern Transvaal farmer faces the prospect of having to destroy his own home at his own expense. Joubert owns the farm Spitskop in Steelpoort, but Anglo owns the mineral rights. The land […]
A Quena woman who was shown in Europe as a circus freak last century is to be the subject of a documentary reviving the memory of South Africa’s aboriginal people, writes Eddie Koch IN 1815 George Cuvier, surgeon general to Napoleon Bonaparte, was given the body of a Quena, or Hottentot, woman called Saartjie Baartman, […]
Oh, dear. Rusty Evans, dinosaur-general of the Department of Foreign Affairs, is upset with the Mail & Guardian. Did we get the facts wrong? Did we not do our homework? No, it’s much simpler than that. We reported on a conference and workshop where his department came under attack. But listen to his words. “I […]
Reg Rumney When is insurance not insurance? When it is offered by a company not registered as an insurer, of course. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), in its 1994 annual report, states that it has submitted to an attorney general (AG) for possible further action the case of a furniture company which has […]
Justin Pearce South African aromatherapists have approached the Constitutional Assembly to try to gain official recognition for their profession. A submission to the Constitutional Assembly made by Moyra Metcalfe, chairperson of the Association of Aromatherapists Southern Africa argues “that each individual has a right to choose and maintain natural, holistic health. “He should be given […]
A decision will soon be made on the fallout of the Greg Blank case, reports Jacques Magliolo THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) will decide within the next few weeks whether to charge stockbroking firms and individuals implicated in the well publicised 1991 R35- million scam, say two reliable sources within the exchange. These insiders say […]
A police colonel, an army brigadier and a top Inkatha official have been charged with the 1987 KwaMakhutha massacre. Anne Eveleth this week revisited the scene where a priest and a dozen women and children were assassinated The sun was setting over the rambling hills of KwaMakhutha, 25km south of Durban, as we navigated the […]
Censorship under the new Constitution is to face its first major challenge as Hustler magazine loses patience with the Publications Control Board’s approach to what may or may not be displayed, reports Justin South Africa’s dinosaur censorship legislation is to face its first challenge in the Constitutional Court when Hustler magazine contests the banning of […]