Emigration consultancies seem to be booming. Jeremy Gordin attended one of their seminars — and decided it was enough to make him stay WHAT was making our feet itchy, my wife and I agreed, wasn’t the tax rate. Nor the bond rate. Nor even the unavoidable realisation that our (remaining) deputy president looks and (much […]
Mail & Guardian Reporter FORMER defence minister Magnus Malan sat motionless in the Durban Supreme Court dock this week, pondering a front-page newspaper report under the headline “Ex-generals admit 20 crimes”. The article referred to Monday’s landmark decision by various former security force generals, including former police commissioner General Johan van der Merwe, to admit […]
Reformed boom-boom banger Boris Becker is using his head to mount a menacing challenge to champion Sampras TENNIS: Jon Henderson ONCE UPON A time, Boris Becker played tennis using only his racket, his pugilist’s right arm and, perhaps the main source of his power, his beer-keg thighs. Now he uses his head as well, and […]
`THEY’VE changed everything,” said Paul Dickens, a 32-year-old civil servant, fluffing a newly spiked hairdo last weekend at the Sex Pistols’ first British gig in 18 years. You wouldn’t have known it to look at the four beer-bellied market traders on stage in Finsbury Park, north London, but these were the erstwhile swearing, gobbing punk […]
TWO pulsating European Championship semi-finals both ended in exactly the same way on Wednesday night when the sudden-death penalty shoot-out sealed the fate of England and France. In the first match favourites France had the most chances against a Czech Republic team determined not to concede a goal. France’s Youri Djorkaeff came closest to scoring […]
Madeleine Wackernagel Official unemployment may not be as drastic as previously thought, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) report released last week, but levels of inequality are still abnormally high. And while there has been some progress on redistribution between the races, intra-racial inequality is growing. “The gap between the haves and the have-nots […]
Mungo Soggot IN a bid to become more transparent and accountable, Transnet has appointed three ombudsmen to handle complaints from employees, customers and business partners. They are chairman Louise Tager, general manager of auditing Nigel Payne and non-executive director Magamola Nana. Tager this week dismissed the suggestion that the appointment of three top company officials […]
Alex Duval Smith in Bourges Musicians from Sting to Sir Yehudi Menuhin are backing a campaign by French culture minister Philippe Douste-Blazy to reduce value-added tax (Vat) on recorded music across the European Union. This town in central France hosts one of Europe’s biggest music festivals every spring and Douste- Blazy chose a conference here […]
Ann Eveleth THIS week’s local government elections will change next to nothing in the white right-wing stronghold of St Lucia, following a successful campaign by white business owners to keep most of their black employees off the voters’ roll. While black voters won a partial victory during a revision court hearing last week, the vast […]
Jacquie Golding-Duffy SABC staffers have to sign personally for their salary cheques after the corporation discovered that ex-employees were claiming salaries long after they had left the broadcaster. Head of the SABC’s internal investigations unit, Andy Sello, was tight-lipped relaying a message via a colleague that he is ”too busy” to comment, although it is […]