Marion Edmunds Former Denel chief executive Johan Alberts walked away from the arms parastatal with a whopping R18-million in pension and restraint-of-trade payments, according to a senior government source. Minister of Public Enterprises Stella Sicgau is sitting on an explosive forensic audit that exposes how Alberts and other top managers at Denel paid themselves huge […]
Andy CapostagnoCricket If this is the beginning of a new age, then it’s particularly appropriate that South Africa will go into the Newlands Test against opponents who are, in the best sense of the word, old fashioned. Sri Lanka may be the world champions in one-day cricket, b ut their approach to Test cricket, if […]
Andrew Muchineripi: Soccer His French accent was thicker than coarse-cut breakfast marmalade, but the message spelt out by new Bafana Bafana coach Philippe Troussier at his first media conference this week was crystal clear. The White Witchdoctor believed the national team had great potential and would not provide cannon fodder for Group C opponents France […]
Lower interest rates and a consumer-friendly budget are sure to put extra money into the pockets of consumers – which should bring smiles to the country’s retailers and value to their shares. While some of the bigger South African stores have had a difficult time in the last year with low levels of consumer spending […]
Please allow me to add some comments and correct some historical errors regarding John Grobler’s article (“Still no redress for Herero”, March 13 to 19). As Grobler correctly points out, the Herero-German war resulted in genocide – the first genocide to take place in our genocidal century, before the mass killings of Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, […]
Has Microsoft reached its “sell by” date? Has the meteoric rise and rise of the company reached a peak, with the prospect of a slippery downward slide making Microsoft go beyond aggressive competition – into monopolistic, unfairly competitive and arrogan t business practices? Some early warning signals are appearing. But, let me lay my cards […]
Joseph Heller thinks Catch-22 makes him America’s greatest novelist. What more can a man achieve? Well, he could try and be a bit nicer, writes Lynn Barber Everyone told me beforehand that I would love Joseph Heller, and, of course, I already loved his writing. I belong to the generation that wore “Yossarian Lives!” badges […]
Lynda Gledhill It may not be possible to put a price on someone’s life, but doctors know it takes enormous amounts of money to give the thousands of South Africans infected with HIV a longer, healthier life. Drug therapies have proven to be very effective at fighting the virus and have dramatically improved the outlook […]
FRIDAY, 9.45AM: AMANDA COETZER, world women’s tennis number five, has confirmed that she will play in the $200 000 MTN Women’s Classic at the Northgate Dome from April 23-26. Coetzer was a doubtful starter for the tournament, as she was scheduled to defend her title at the Budapest Open, but a berth was kept open […]
Sechaba ka’Nkosi An African National Congress task team headed by Minister of Welfare and Population Development Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi to investigate a “communist plot” at its national congress last year has ignited a bitter internal wrangle between two factions of t he South African Communist Party. As the SACP prepares for its 10th national conference in […]