MONDAY, 1.30PM DELEGATES to a British conference on economic crime have been warned that rivalry between South African government departments has delayed the creation of a money-laundering watchdog for more than a year. Confusion over whether the proposed Financial Intelligence Centre will come under the authority of the Reserve Bank, the finance department, or the […]

MONDAY, 6.00PM TEENAGE rightwinger Stephanus Coetzee, sentenced to 40 years in jail a fortnight ago for his part in the Christmas Eve bomb blasts in Worcester, has refused to testify against his fellow accused. Johannes van der Westhuizen, Cliffie Barnard and Abraham Myburgh have pleaded not guilty to murder charges related to the bomb blasts, […]

Carmen Morris : Cape Town cafs Continental drift is a geographical term that is being redefined by Cape Towns latest influx of imported restaurants. Forget South African cuisine and decor. International and foreign flavours are the way to satisfy Cape Towns more sophisticated palates. The Atlantic Grill at the Table Bay Hotel, Joes Caf and […]

Brenda Atkinson : Style Faith Popcorn may have a silly name, but this is the woman who coined the term cocooning way back in the 1980s to describe a lifestyle trend that would hit the upwardly mobile in the beleaguered 1990s. Popcorn predicted that in an increasingly confusing and often hostile urban environment, people would […]

Amway has arrived in South Africa. Its products may work but the marketing is a minefield for the uninitiated, warns Andrew Worsdale On June 20, at 3.13pm, my household (or at least my PC) received unsolicited e-mail from Australia. Id never heard of the correspondent, nor sent unbidden cyber-mail to him. It said: I am […]

FRIDAY, 3.00PM ONE of the country’s most wanted men was arrested on Friday morning in connection with a series of murders and other acts of violence in the Richmond area of KwaZulu-Natal, police said. Spokesman Director Reg Crewe confirmed that Skumbuza Patrick Ndlovu, 30, known in the Richmond area as “Comrade Bob”, was arrested at […]

Deion Sanders is a great footballer, a mean baseball slugger, a reformed womaniser, a born-again Christian (surprise) and a top shoe salesman. Hes nursing a bad divorce |and a worse injury. George Kimball reports on a hectic start to the NFL season On a recent Sunday morning the parishioners of an Atlanta church were the […]

Christopher Zinn An odd sign adorns the entrance to the small national park on Norfolk Island, a tiny island in the middle of the South Pacific. It reads: ?Yorlye Cum Look Orn,? which, in the rich Norfolk language of 18th-century English and Tahitian, means: ?Do come and have a look.? And well you might, for […]

Andy Duffy The controversial private deportation camp linked to prominent African National Congress women faces closure. The Ministry of Home Affairs fears it can no longer afford to pay the women?s group, Dyambu Holdings, to continue using its camp, and is expected to end the contract by year- end. Lindela camp, in Randfontein on the […]