The Markets Jacques Magliolo Does anyone actually know what is going on out there? The markets are becoming more confusing and complex by the day. Investors have to keep track of a vast amount of changing Johannesburg Stock Exchange and company law regulations, market movement, fundamental issues as well as the factors which affect these. […]

Weekly Mail Reporters MOST of the 14 regions of the ANC’s Women’s League have condemned the recent decision of 11 members of the league’s National Executive Committee (NEC) to resign their posts without proper consultation. The league’s Northern Natal secretary, Nokwethemba Biyela, said 12 of the 14 regions had “stood up” at the NEC meeting […]

Life assurers are honing their strategies in order to capture the multi-billion rand funeral business, reports Jacques Magliolo How big is the funeral business? Big enough for the life assurers to fight tooth and nail for it. Financial Services Board long term insurance manager Oppie Opperman says: “In 1993 total premium received by the life […]

Native tongue Bafana Khumalo ‘MY name is Keith, I am 25 years old.” The young black man hesitated for a while, took a sip from the styrofoam cup filled with a dark liquid in his hand, which was shaking slightly. He looked at the group of people dressed in hand-printed clothing around him and wondered […]

Marius Schoon plans to lay charges against Craig Williamson for the murder of his wife and child, writes Mark Gevisser The conscience of white South Africa is a self-assured Standard Six pupil whose voice has just broken, who is soccer-mad, and who witnessed his mother and sister blown to smithereens when he was two years […]

SOCCER: Clinton Asary WHEN Clemens Westerhof took charge of Sundowns this season he predicted that the “Brazilians” would win the league this year. But it has been a far from satisfactory start for the “supercoach” who led Nigeria to the 1994 African Nations Cup, and the last 16 of the World Cup the same year. […]

Making quick runs on the slow wickets in New Zealand is an art Gary Kirsten seems to have mastered CRICKET: Krish Mi’rams in New Zealand The pitches in New Zealand are notoriously slow but on Thursday the ground was completely soggy as the vital match between South Africa and the home team was rained off. […]

Critical Consumer Pat Sidley THE Gauteng administration this week made history for its citizens and consumers. It called together a gathering of consumer organisations, groups with a consumer interest such as civics and trade unions, and those journalists who have had to do the job of consumer groups in the absence of adequate ones. Some […]

Colin Jackson THE nation’s broadcasting heritage can be summed up with the Broederbond’s cherished term, “consensus broadcasting” — which meant not challenging the regime. The old SABC left no established editorial values, because they only formally accepted that the role of the public broadcasting service was to shine the torch of truth. A critical and […]

The Seventies smash hit Saturday Night Fever first shot John Travolta to stardom. Now he’s made his comeback, receiving an Oscar nomination for his role in Pulp Fiction. Nik Cohn, the creator of Fever, met him in New York THE first time that I didn’t meet John Travolta was in Brooklyn. It was 1976, and […]