Shaun Harris TAKING STOCK Small investors’ nerves are getting frayed, it seems, as we approach the end of the year. That was the clear message to come out of the last unit trust quarterly results, which showed a strong move out of equity funds into low-risk money market funds, or out of the unit trust […]

The English cricket team lack the talent necessary to win on their tour of South Africa, writes Neil Manthorp England seem determined to ensure that attitudes, approaches, appearances and results on their tour of South Africa stay the same as on all their other tours this decade. Based on performances so far, it will take […]

Justin Pearce travelled to the Ethiopian province of Tigray, a hot spot in the country’s border conflict with Eritrea The colonel sits in a cabin lined with plastic grain sacks (“net contents 100kg”) and decorated with paintings of the Ethiopian kings who kept the Italians at bay in the 19th century. “The moment our sovereignity […]

Will a virtual currency, transferred over the Internet, make hard cash redundant? Charlotte Denny investigates He is the darling of Wall Street, credited with engineering America’s longest post-war economic expansion. But the man who holds the future of the world economy in his hands, Alan Greenspan, the head of the United States Federal Reserve, is […]

Untiring, unrepentant and unscathed, ‘Teflon Don’ is boxing on, writes Donald McRae ‘See you in Paris, baby,” Don King had promised as the diamond-studded crucifix swung gently from his massive neck. And so, big Don being a man of his word, it came to pass. A day later we walked through Paris together. His cross […]

receive their rewards Awhopping R700 000 is on offer for organisations which deliver innovative poverty reduction programmes, writes Barry Streek A programme to recognise and reward innovative poverty reduction projects for government delivery programmes with R700 000 to 15 different projects has provoked huge interest from both the government and NGOs. In a rush to […]

Brenda Atkinson unpicks the curatorial pitfalls in the current Liberated Voices exhibition in New York In an article on an exhibition of new South African ”visual languages” held in Zurich (”Dialogue lost in transit”, September 17 to 22), I wrote that exhibitions which prioritise the national ”identity” of the production they frame ”[touch] sides with […]

Paul Kirk A controversial medication that is a form of legalised dagga has been withdrawn from the market, avoiding a court battle that would have challenged the illegality of dagga in South Africa. Elevat is the trade name for medication that contains the active ingredient dronabinol. Hailed as a wonder drug for the alleviation of […]

KING Mswati III appointed Mbabane lawyer Phesheya Dlamini as Swaziland’s Attorney General on Thursday, with Mzwandile Fakudze as his deputy. The under-secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Noreen Maphalala, has been appointed Auditor General. The Attorney General’s post became vacant two months ago when the contract of Ghanaian Martin Dwamena expired, leaving the government without […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 6.50pm. NEW boys Andrew Flintoff and Chris Adams prevented England suffering another embarrassing batting collapse to steer the tourists into a comfortable position against a Combined Free State/Griqualand West XI. England, put in to bat in good batting conditions, were hopeful their top order would respond by spending useful […]