Aspasia Karras interviews Judi Priday, the managing director of newly formed Quantum Insurance Newly launched Quantum Insurance is breaking new ground in the corporate risk management industry. Not only is it the first major insurance company to appoint a woman managing director, Judi Priday (32), but it uses a different approach to combat the market […]

The long serving executive office of the Comrades Marathon has resigned. Now it’s up to the old guard of administrators to ‘run’ the marathon into the future ROAD RUNNING: Julian Drew LINDA BARRON, executive officer of the Comrades Marathon Association (CMA), has been at the helm of the Natal classic for the past 12 years, […]

Rehana Rossouw DRAFT legislation spelling out the powers of the Gender Equity Commission has been prepared by the Department of Justice, giving the body the same teeth as the Human Rights Commission to perform its tasks of ensuring gender equity in Parliament and society. The Parliamentary Commission on Gender Equity met on Wednesday to grapple […]

Pat Sidley Trainee teachers at the mainly black Colleges of Education throughout the country are seething over the textbooks they are required to study. The books, condemned as “paranoid drivel”, are just one of a number of issues that are intensifying the growing crisis in teacher training. A conference of college of education rectors met […]

GOLF: Jon Swift A HUGE test awaits reigning US Open champion Ernie Els at Shinnecock Hills next week when the South African has to shake off all the momentous events of the past 12 months … and start all over again. In many ways this will be a welcome factor for Els. For, as all […]

It was a perfectly normal lecture until Daniel Zikalala fell through the ceiling. But then, people who know Vista know it as the university where almost anything can happen. And after Zikalala had picked himself up off the floor and walked quietly out of the lecture room, class went on. The incident has become legendary […]

Age: 22 going on three-and-a-half Appearance: Not to be confused with the other James. James Small is the hot-tempered wing, turned fashion model. James Dalton is the hot-tempered hooker with stick-on ears and a familiar face, who has an uncanny resemblance to a police identikit sketch. Contribution to rugby: Demonstrating that even rugby players have […]

Justin Pearce The self-appointed management team of Vista University — led by Armscor director Leon Bartell — is accused of stashing millions of rands of university funds to be used in case some of its staff are “chased off” campus. The university, originally the brainchild of Dr Andries Treurnicht, is now battling to transform itself […]

Displaced South African Andrew Dosunmu — fashion stylist and music video director — is hot property in New York. He spoke to Tony Karon ANDREW DOSUNMU is pacing around his sparse studio apartment in Manhattan’s fashion district, anxious for feedback on his directorial debut music video. There is no furniture beyond the functional — a […]

Gavin du Venage DOCTORS at Baragwanath Hospital have begun to arm themselves with chemical sprays to defend themselves against patients, following a number of attacks that has left at least one person dead. Several weeks ago a doctor accidentally killed a haemophiliac patient when he tried to fend the man off. A senior doctor told […]