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/ 13 February 1998
Andrea Dworkin Monica Lewinsky is in a terrible, terrible mess. She’s being threatened by a very mean special prosecutor who has unlimited powers. And he plays hard ball. She has my sympathy. Of everyone who is a player in this game, she is the one who is going to be destroyed by it. We are […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Managed currency funds provide limited-risk offshore investments, writes Dan Atkinson from London As the turmoil on the currency markets abates, there can still be few easier places to make or lose a million. Novice investors are ill-advised to take a ride on roller-coastering foreign exchanges. But managed currency funds will allow the adventurous to play […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Gino Rossi: Share World As the Asian economic turmoil abates, South African financial markets are again speculating about the possibility of an interest-rate cut. For the past three weeks the rumour mill has been spinning at a fast pace, particularly on Fridays when the South African Reserve Bank usually makes announcements about cuts in the […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Don Mkhwanazi has been enjoying Emanuel Shaw II’s largesse since the controversial contract was arranged, reports Mungo Soggot Emanuel Shaw II, the Liberian politician handed a R3-million state oil job, has been bankrolling the man who gave him the contract, Central Energy Fund chair Don Mkhwanazi. Bank records show that one of Shaw’s South African […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Mail & Guardian reporter Tony O’Reilly spends as he earns – liberally. When the estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis came under the hammer at Sotheby’s two years ago, O’Reilly paid $2,6- million for a 40-carat diamond engagement ring given to the former first lady by Aristotle Onassis. The former Ireland rugby star-turned-ketchup king was last […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Werner Menges An ambitious attempt to clean up an apartheid eyesore has landed Namibia’s former housing minister – the winner of a United Nations housing award – and top officials in the Ministry of Housing in the largest corruption trial since independence. The Windhoek High Court heard evidence about confused responsibilities, denials and disregard for […]
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/ 13 February 1998
football Alex Duval Smith In a world where a single transfer fee for a top football player could save the economy of a small country, it seems almost inconceivable for one of the poorest nations on the planet, Burkina Faso, to be organising a major soccer championship. But as the African Nations Cup play-offs gather […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Mandela claims crime is waning, but criminal syndicates could be gaining strength, writes David Beresford South Africa appears to be teetering on the brink of the nightmare of crime which is reality for Russia and Colombia, in the wake of the recent heists and the controversy surrounding this country’s so-called “public enemy no 1”, Collin […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Mail & Guardian reporters Hollywood loves a spectacle – and a spectacular blockbuster goes straight to its heart. That’s why Titanic, the most expensive movie ever made and also a huge hit, has matched the record for the most Oscar nominations (14). That’s a tie with 1950’s All About Eve, though Titanic is beginning to […]
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/ 13 February 1998
The Mail & Guardian announces two new features. From this week we are launching a new political column, Crossfire, which is to be written on a rotational basis by some of the leading commentators in the country. In the first Crossfire, Jeremy Cronin asks under what conditions a merger between the African National Congress and […]