Is Chris Stals about to scrap the financial rand? Jacques Magliolo Looks into the rumours A statement by Reserve Bank governor Chris Stals this week fuelled rumours that the financial rand would be scrapped within weeks. However, according to a number of economists and analysts, the speculation seems optimistic. The finrand was introduced by the […]

Marketing Clive Simpkins IF South Africa is serious about hosting the World Cup and, more distantly, the 2004 Olympics, we’re going to have to rectify accommodation and infrastructure deficiencies. If not, our marketability as a big-event venue is at stake. I was in Cape Town for the opening of parliament. Weeks ahead, there was virtually […]

THEATRE: Justin Pearce ART imitates life, life imitates art, and theatre imitates cinema ’cause movies are a whole lot more successful than plays … No, no, foul, unfair! It’s tempting to speculate that Ian Fraser’s venture into the world of vampirism, Story of an African Vampire, at the Pieter Roos Theatre at the Civic, is […]

Two pioneers are using art therapy to help Soweto children heal the wounds of poverty and violence. Hazel Friedman reports THEY beckon like neons in the smog and debris: two zozo huts decorated with bright murals of frolicking children and flowers. These are the Dube and Othandweni headquarters of Matep (Mokhele Art Therapy and Education […]

Craig Williamson has revealed that South African security police carried out a London bombing raid. But he hasn’t told the whole story, say former colleagues. Stefaans Brummer reports ONE-TIME spy Craig Williamson’s revelations about the March 1982 bombing of the ANC offices in London do not go farenough, former police Security Branch colleagues say. They […]

It’s time for South Africans to move beyond the furore over Allan Boesak’s Geneva posting, writes Peter Vale. This week’s report by the Commission for Global Governance highlights the real international challenges facing the country OUR Global Neighbourhood, the report released in Cape Town this week by Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson and Sonny Ramphal, […]

Annie Mapoma MANAGEMENT at two of Johannesburg’s most popular flea markets, Rosebank and Bruma, are surveying their traders and intend taking serious measures against those who threaten the city’s flourishing flea market industry by overpricing. The issue was brought to light when customers complained they were being ripped-off by certain traders, especially on items like […]

ATHLETICS: Julian Drew WHEN Shadrack Hoff sliced more than five seconds off Matthews Temane’s eight-year-old national 5 000m record in Stellenbosch two weeks ago, it signalled the beginning of a new era for South African distance running. In the dark years of the apartheid inspired sports boycott distance running turned in on itself in this […]

ELANA MEYER will use tomorrow’s Old Mutual ASA international half marathon challenge in Cape Town to sharpen up for April’s Boston Marathon. The challenge is part of the Cape Town marathon and half marathon which features teams of two men and two women from Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia and Zimbabwe as well as the South African […]

Inge Ruigrok A SHIP loaded with deadly nuclear waste, including weapons-grade plutonium, may sail through South African waters on its way from France to Japan within the next two weeks. The Cape Town-base Environment Monitoring Group has urgently appealed to the government to notify the Japanese government of South Africa’s formal opposition to these shipments […]