Simon Segal THE great seven-year haggling game between divergent interest groups around the establishment of a regulated bond market appears at last to be moving towards a resolution. Last week the Bond Market Association (BMA) submitted its application to the Financial Services Board (FSB) to be licensed as South Africa’s bond market exchange. The FSB […]

Philippa Garson A radical shake-up in tertiary education has been proposed by the National Commission on Higher Education. Chaired by Jairam Reddy, former rector of the University of Durban Westville, the commission appears to have met a wide range of needs without bowing to the specific demands of any group. It embraces a vision for […]

Serjeant AT THE BAR The Truth and Reconciliation Commission should not be treated like a court of law THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission kicked off, this week, in an appropriately dramatic and South African fashion — with threats of litigation and bombs at the first hearing. There will probably be plenty of both over the […]

With youthful rebels on a cannibal rampage, Westerners are fleeing the anarchy in Liberia, a country abandoned by the West, writes Phillip van Niekerk TWO-and-a-half weeks ago, soldiers overran the village north-west of Monrovia where Sensi Momoh lived. They were young, some no more than teenagers, and heavily armed. They fired at random and ransacked […]

FINE ART: Hazel Friedman SLEAZY hotel rooms belong to the “lay now, pay later” way of life. A conflation of private and public domains, with their starched sheets and lumpy mattresses, they are imbued with an air of erotic anonymity. And to the artists of Visible Traces (at the Market’s Rembrant van Rijn Gallery) — […]

Shadley Nash A national strike is looming in the chemical industry, should demands by workers for a centralised bargaining council not be met. This warning was issued on Wednesday by Welile Nolingo, vice-president of the Chemical Workers and Industrial Union (CWIU), at a mass protest march in Port Elizabeth. The union also used the opportunity […]

RUGBY: Jon Swift IT IS not overstating things to say that we all live in an unequal world. This is true at the top of the rugby pile where George Orwell’s contention that some are more equal than others freely applies. Certainly this is the type of thinking that prevails in England’s top rugby circles […]

oldies Some of South Africa’s triumphant team of African Nations Cup champions have been described as too old, and now they must take on a young team of magicians from Brazil SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi BRAZIL are the benchmark by which national football teams are judged and at the FNB stadium on Wednesday evening it will […]

Philippa Garson and Jacquie Golding-Duffy THE South African Police Union (Sapu) has called for the resignation of controversial South African Police Services communications director Craig Kotze who was recently given a permanent job in the force. Sapu secretary general Peter-Don Brandt said Kotze was “running a union-bashing” exercise and had acted in bad faith by […]

HOCKEY: Julian Drew SOUTH AFRICA eagerly awaited the 1993 Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Nairobi as their first step back into international competition, but this year’s version has come at an awkward time for a side preparing for greater things. In three months time South Africa will take part in the Olympic Games in […]