and continued: “‘Tis none of your business, dear friend, for the gentleman of Caucasian extraction possesses a palm that is two times your visage. Glasses ar expensive …” In revolutionary zeal, I had neglected to look at the size of the offending whitey and thought onl’ of my self- righteous blackness and how I could […]

Native tongue Bafana Khumalo WHY do these things happen to me? I must be cursed. Of all the billions of people in the world, I am the only one who will encounter an alien and the alien will not say anything profound like “take me to your leader”. To other people, yes, he will say […]

A new book, Share Analysis and Company Forecasting: How to=20 Make Money on the JSE by Weekly Mail & Guardian financial=20 journalist Jacques Magliolo aims to demystify the=20 Johannesburg Stock Exchange for the investor and to outline=20 how analysts assess companies. Areas covered include: understanding the JSE; how to read=20 share price pages; outlining shareholders’ […]

An outcry from conservatives and threats to cut advertising forced the SABC ‘s hand. Justin Pearce reports The SABC has begun to beat a hasty retreat over its new- look SAfm station, as board chair Dr Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri this week tried to paper over the growing rifts in the Staffers accused the board of pandering […]

Clive Simpkins A CHALLENGE to South African marketers is keeping pace with=20 the changes occurring daily as a result of the awakening of=20 the once-sleeping giant of black enfranchisement. Black women, historically the bottom of the heap in terms=20 of earning power, status and direct influence in business=20 and society, are emerging as a major […]

RUGBY: Jon Swift WITHOUT so much as a by your leave, the flatulent winds of=20 change have blown through the sombre portals of the=20 stuffily named Rugby Football Union, the home of the game=20 in England. The stink raised by the Will Carling affair spells the end=20 of the game of rugby as it is […]

Nelson Mandela’s Budget speech last week was co-written by a dozen white female secretaries in Cape Town, a group of female squatters in Gauteng, and some coloured professionals in the Cape. And they didn’t even know it. Call it Rule by Focus Group. The impact of Clinton pollster Stanley Greenberg in the last election has […]

This week’s Orkney mine accident comes on the eve of the report of a judicial commission on mine safety, reports Eddie Koch The accident at the Vaal Reefs Mine near Orkney, which killed up to 100 workers on Wednesday night — the biggest underground disaster in more than a decade — is set to push […]

Justin Pearce While Dr Allan Boesak was making headlines daily in South Africa with allegations of corruption, a United States corporation was blissfully unaware that its $50 000 donation to the Foundation for Peace and Justice (FPJ) was never used for the purposes for which it was intended. This week Kerry Traubert, a representative of […]