Jacques Magliolo WHILE local stores-listed companies fight for market=20 share on South African soil, there is a universal trend=20 for retailers to become world players. The Americans,=20 Asians and Europeans have suddenly realised the=20 advantages of the global village and they intend to=20 make the most of its conveniences. Everyone has heard of easy access […]

CINEMA: Stanley Peskin THE brilliantly coloured and designed credit titles for=20 High Heels (1991) are shots of high-heeled shoes which=20 in the film come to be associated with the world of=20 fashion and show business, as well as with=20 impersonation and performance. These are replaced with=20 shots of revolvers, and so murder and mayhem are=20 […]

Estimated expenditure for the Office of the President,=20 which includes President Nelson Mandela’s salary,=20 amounts to R16,3-million, an increase of R272000 from=20 last year, according to the 1995/96 Budget. Expenditure for the office of Deputy President Thabo=20 Mbeki is estimated at R8,8-million, a decrease of R1,2=20 million. Expenditure for the office of Second Deputy=20 President […]

This week, the Weekly Mail & Guardian presents a simple lesson in how to prevent corruption among Members of Parliament and provincial legislatures. We publish below the ANC’s Code of Conduct, which sets out the rules the organisation has set down in a bid to prevent its members from being corrupted. Much has been said […]

Native tongue Bafana Khumalo It was that time of the evening when one can glare at the boss and waltz out of the office and the glare is followed by a smug smile that says: “This time is mine and there is nothing you can do about it. For the next couple of hours I […]

Pace against power in the loose forwards is a question=20 that will be highlighted in the Super 10 clash between=20 Transvaal and Western Province RUGBY: Jon Swift THERE can be little doubt that Transvaal have already=20 taken on the look — and demonstrated the drive in=20 patches — of this country’s preeminent provincial=20 Despite what […]

NOW at last we know the precise mathematical point between a rock and a hard place. It’s Marcia Clark’s life.She’s the prosecutor in the OJ Simpson trial, a case so high-pressure and so celebrated that it’s headline news if she drops a verb. She’s a single mother competing with the big boys. When she tried […]

So far the battle between the Zulu king and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi has been a war of words — now it’s headed for the courts, writes Ann Eveleth INKATHA Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s new power base in kwa-Zulu/Natal, the controversial House of Traditional Leaders, came under a double-edged legal sword this week following […]

SOCCER: Clinton Asary BOASTING a smile as wide as Kimberley’s famous big=20 hole, there is no doubt that Kaizer Motaung was by far=20 the happiest man at Rand Stadium last Saturday, as he=20 watched his side crush Hellenic 5-1. But it was not the scoreline that had the Kaizer Chiefs=20 camp smiling, rather the way […]

CINEMA: William Pretorius BLUE SKY, in which Jessica Lange plays the=20 unconventional wife of an army officer, is British=20 director Tony Richardson’s last film. Working in=20 Europe, Britain and the United States, Richardson’s=20 career has veered wildly from brilliant (Tom Jones) to=20 awful (The Hotel New Hampshire), with seldom a dull=20 He has a definite […]