I READ your article “TML’s nervous editors” (April 19 to 25) with keen interest. The editors and their managers have every reason to be nervous. In fact, they should be shaking in their boots. If a black consortium does take over Times Media Limited, it should bring an end to racism at this self-proclaimed citadel […]

Mungo Soggot THE truth commission could be paralysed by being forced to operate like a normal court after the Cape Supreme Court’s decision this week to allow retired policemen access to truth commission documents, lawyers said this week. They said the decision could set a precedent which opened the gap for other judgments to order […]

As demand for South African exports increases, mining houses can expect profits, but the consumer will be hard hit, writes Bronwen Jones COAL will be in short supply this winter as overseas demand soars and the rand makes foreign sales more attractive. Add to this the lulls in production enforced by heavy rains earlier this […]

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A FRISSON of fear is running through the ranks of junior advocates, following the recent decision of the Bar Council to allow attorneys to appear in court with senior advocates. Attorneys were given the right to appear in court on their own last year, but the latest move is seen as more of a threat […]

A strong South African team is expected to win many medals at the Paralympics in Atlanta, writes Julian Drew ONE group of South African sportsmen and women whose potential for gold is far greater than most of those who will go to the Olympic Games have received barely a mention as the hype around Atlanta […]

SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi Star defender Mark Fish has been persuaded to make one more appearance for Orlando Pirates, and it could be his most vital yet AN important occasion was given added significance this week when Mark Fish agreed to don the black and white one last time and play for Orlando Pirates in the […]

Mungo Soggot RESERVE Bank governor Chris Stals said this week he feared lifting exchange controls because of the heavy “pent-up demand” in South Africa to invest abroad that had built up in the past 30 years. Talking about the rand’s meltdown and the Reserve Bank’s relationship with the government, Stals rejected the view that the […]

Lyndon Johnson, when asked why he kept J Edgar Hoover on as head of the FBI, made the famous observation that “I’d much rather have that fellow inside my tent pissing out than outside my tent pissing in”. It is a philosophy which has governed President Nelson Mandela’s attempts to handle Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi for […]