The property market has turned, but it has not yet gathered momentum. Reg Rumney reports The property market is at long last showing signs of a sharp revival. Boland Bank’s latest Economic Review notes that both the value and volume of property market transactions have been accelerating gradually for around 12 months. The reason is […]
… but when The Rolling Stones took the stage last weekend, it was a show to rival the biggest-budget Hollywood movie, writes Shaun de Waal ARE you going to The Rolling Stones? That was the question everyone seemed to ask everyone else for weeks, and the answer usually seemed to be yes. And when the […]
Native tongue Bafana Khumalo THE SAUK, nice place that is, has received more abuse than a whore on a good night for business. It started with the Nationalist white male going out of his way to make sure that the good aunt was going to prostitute herself for the cause of apartheid. Well, like a […]
As a ship filled with nuclear waste heads for South African waters, environmental groups are concerned by the government’s lack of action, writes Inge Ruigrok DOES silence mean permission? A ship conveying 14 tons of the most concentrated nuclear waste ever transported, including a deadly cargo of bomb-grade plutonium, is likely to sail through South […]
Clive Simpkins Talk about tweaking the tiger’s, or is it the pussycat’s, tail? There were howls of protest from the advertising industry at my comments in the February 17 column Selling with a nudge and a wink, on phallic or sexist advertising, defending their use of it in order to “stand out in a crowd”. […]
GOLF: Jon Swift WHILE this country basks in the glow of a memorable inaugural win in the Alfred Dunhill Challenge at Houghton, there are some areas which requrie some thought before next season’s professional tour kicks for next year, there is no Dunhill Challenge to take the edge off some of the problems which lurk […]
THREE times British wrestling champion Dave Morgan promises to have his opponent carried out of the ring in a coffin when he meets India’s Gama Singh at Turffontein’s Wembley Indoor Arena on Friday night. Described by promoters as a wrestling explosion, this is the first South African event to attract five international wrestlers. Four of […]
SAILING: Jonathan Spencer Jones AFTER 29 days and 16 hours at sea, Frenchman Christophe Auguin on Sceta Calberson arrived in Punta del Este, Uruguay, to win the third leg of the BOC Challenge singlehanded around the world race with a new record, some one day 11 hours better than the previous record set by compatriot […]
Late bloomer: Bungu can add to belated acclaim against BOXING: Gavin Evans VUYANI “The Beast” Bungu is a young man who was groomed to be one of life’s worthy supporting acts, and yet has somehow risen to the foothills of fame, fortune and more than a dollup of mass acclaim. Of all South Africa’s boxing […]
Winnie’s fall could spell the end of the populist elite in the ANC, report Stefaans Brummer and Eddie THE fall of Winnie Mandela may sound the death knell for the “populist” faction within the ANC and could have strong repercussions, reaching as far as the race for succession to President Nelson Mandela. The extraordinary occurrence […]