Paul Dixon and Nicola Gain Foreign investment is on the increase. While falling short=20 of pre-election hype, the tide is changing, with inward=20 investment is gaining strong momentum. United States firms have taken the lead — not surprising=20 since they disinvested heavily during the 1980s.=20 Current activity may only be the tip of the iceberg, […]

Pearl Connor NATHAN ”Dambuza” Mdledle, who has died aged 72, was the lead singer with The Manhattan Brothers, and found fame in Britain when he starred in the Fifties musical King Kong. Blessed with a magnificent baritone voice, good looks and a charming manner, Mdledle was the spokesman for the group. The son of an […]

Eddie Koch WHY did only black workers die in last week’s tragedy? The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) says it is because racial segregation is still rife on the mines. The charge is denied by the owners of the Vaal Reefs Gold Mine. Union officials say black and white mineworkers are hoisted separately on many […]

Stefaans Brummer DEPUTY Minister of Constitutional Affairs Mohammed Valli Moosa this week intervened in the border dispute between Eastern Transvaal Premier Mathews Phosa and Nothern Transvaal Premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi. It is understood Moosa’s move to resolve the dispute over Bushbuckridge — part of the former Lebowa and Gazankulu homelands at present demarcated in the Northern […]

THEATRE: David Le Page FARCE in South Africa has come to mean, typically, an=20 evening of imported bourgeois Anglo-Saxon capers –=20 romantic, sexual and ridiculous. However, the Anglo-Saxons=20 are not deeply into muti, and so they’ve never been=20 inspired by a love potion called Afrodizzia to an evening=20 of leap-frogging, overlapping and incongruous infatuations.=20 But […]

Three new books on the 1950s freeze history in photographs,=20 HAZEL FRIEDMAN. Is this a valuable lesson or just wallowing=20 in nostalgia? FOR each of us there is a special time and place on which=20 is indelibly stamped the word “golden”. Part reality, part=20 myth — the rough edges and contradictions blurred by=20 memory — […]

Indigent people may soon gain wider access to legal representation, reports Justin Pearce Contingency fees — where lawyers are only paid if they win the case — could soon be officially recognised. This will enable the poor to invoke the power of the law without the financial risk of losing a case. Although contingency fees […]

Pieter Schoombee argues that the life assurance industry is=20 often far from transparent THE fat cats on the assurance industry gravy train are=20 notoriously touchy about criticism, as Dorian Wharton-Hood=20 so insultingly illustrates in the Mail & Guardian’s April=20 21 to 27 issue. Big assurance business has evidently decided that Professor=20 George Marx is getting […]

Moveable Feast Jean-Pierre Rossouw OF course, food should mix with art and wine at every=20 street corner of the Cape. Unfortunately, this is a popular=20 legend that no longer holds any reality. It may have been=20 true a couple of decades ago, but we Capetonians have to be=20 honest, and say that much now rides […]

Anouk Mommer Fathers of children born out of wedlock will soon have a fair chance to gain access rights. The Minister of Justice has referred a number of important recommendations of the Law Commisssion to Parliament in the form of a draft Bill. Fathers currently have no rights over children born out of wedlock — […]