A new reef may alter the economics of platinum mining in South Africa, reports Bronwen Jones FOUR Chinese geochemists, visiting their South African partners in a platinum exploration joint venture, have found evidence of a significant new platinum reef close to the surface. In an exclusive interview, project manager Yao Wensheng said: “The co-operation between […]
Kathy Evans Osama Bin Ladin, who organised thousands of Arab volunteers in the Afghan jihad and has been linked to dozens of terrorist incidents, is homeless after being forced to leave his haven in Sudan. He had been living there for the past three years with his former mojahedin fighters. According to his spokesman in […]
Stefaans BrUmmer JAY Naidoo is embroiled in his first major controversy as post, telecommunications and broadcasting minister after he made “secret” eleventh-hour changes to the Telecommunications Bill accepted by Cabinet last week. Stakeholders accuse him of reneging on consensus painstakingly built over more than a year by his predecessor, Pallo Jordan. The version of the […]
Ann Eveleth INKATHA Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi strongly hinted this week that his party would quit the Government of National Unity in the next few weeks, leaving the African National Congress to rule South Africa alone in the run-up to the 1999 elections. Buthelezi told the Mail & Guardian he would support a […]
The Constitutional Court must heed the dangers involved in giving corporations the same rights as individuals, argues American consumer advocate Ralph Nader SOUTH Africans should be aware that a key provision of the new Constitution risks entrenching a new form of power abuse in the country: autocratic rule by big corporations. The new Constitution establishes […]
There were some stutters in Tuesday’s match, but there were signs that the new Springbok team can live up to South Africa’s world champions status RUGBY: Jon Swift ANDRE MARKGRAAFF, the man charged with shaping the South African rugby side, was at some pains to dispel any idea of the South African XV playing festival […]
Hazel Friedman `Love sandwiches” are among the sizzling “snacks” being sampled in Biodanza, a series of caress sessions being held at a martial arts centre in Parkhurst and the latest feel-good fad to hit South Africa. Biodanza’s devotees describe it as “dances with passion and vitality” and a means of getting in touch with the […]
Simon Segal THE consensus forecast from 10 of South Africa’s major economic units is that gross domestic product (gdp) growth is still short of what is required to absorb people coming on to the labour market — and that it will slow next year. Sluggish and slowing growth will result in lower interest rates but […]
Justin Pearce While emigration may mean booming business for some, there is no clear evidence of a flood of people leaving the country in the past few months. A phone around the diplomatic missions of the destinations popular with South African emigrants – — Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom — showed that […]
The Wall may have fallen, but Germany has yet to resolve its post-war economic problems. David Gow reports from Bonn The German social market economy, engine of the country’s post-war renaissance, may have run out of steam well before the fall of the Wall, but the political battle to preserve its soul is only now […]