WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: RESERVE Bank governor Chris Stals said on Tuesday that a cut in the interest rate before the introduction of the new money market reproduction system on March 9 is unlikely, unless there is a significant change in market conditions. “With the introduction of the repo system the central bank will be forced to […]

TUESDAY, 11.30AM: PAUL Adams showed he is still in good form when he destroyed the Eastern Province batting with a haul of six wickets for 90 runs to help Western Province achieve a 123-run Supersport Series victory at Newlands on Monday. Adams’ figures would have been even more impressive, career best in fact, had ‘keeper […]

MONDAY, 12.30PM: HELLENIC beat African Wanderers 3-2 at Kings Park soccer stadium on Sunday to ease their worries of relegation. The defeat further compounded the woes of Wanderers, who are facing serious relegation trouble. Hellenic were 1-2 down at half time, but managed to score twice in the second half without reply before a paltry […]

Lesley Cowling : Material World Jetlag could be cured by shining a light behind your knees, say scientists who have discovered light-detecting equipment there. Experts in circadian rhythms, the daily nature cycles that cause flowers to open during the day, have found what they call “extraocular circadian phototransduction” behind the human knee. They tested 15 […]

Feminist hero or sex-fantasy figure? An icon for our times or archetypal goddess? Richard Kelly Heft discusses Barbie’s appeal She’s disparaged by feminists, studied by academics and is a subject of artists. Two Barbie dolls are sold every second of every day and now she is a cultural icon of our times. Barbie can inspire […]

Before you invest offshore, ensure that your tax records are in order or the taxman could come knocking at your door, warns Belinda Beresford You’re considering emigrating, you want to diversify your investment portfolio, or perhaps you just want to bet on the continual fall of the rand. But the time has come to invest […]

shot Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer What a difference two years makes. When South Africa hosted the 1996 African Nations Cup they had partisan support, familiar conditions, a settled team, a successful coach, and duly triumphed. While Jomo Sono, the former national star who succeeded Barker last month on a caretaker basis, speaks confidently of retaining […]

Andy Duffy More than 530 people died at the hands of the police in the last nine months of 1997. Early investigations pinpoint police negligence as a main cause of the deaths, though the police watchdog, the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD), has also found evidence of murder and culpable homicide. The ICD’s figures show that […]

hospitals Ann Eveleth Horror stories of South African public hospitals abound, but perhaps none more poignantly than recent claims by paediatric staff at Durban’s King Edward Hospital that “children have died because of insufficient staff being available”. The hospital’s paediatric department has battled “for years” to convince provincial health authorities to give it more nurses, […]

Lizeka Mda : City Limits It’s no Swiss bank account, nor is it a safe full of jewels. But nevertheless, it is an inheritance. A spot under the Anderson Street overpass off the M2 freeway is Ntombeyiningi Zondi’s inheritance from her mother. Every morning she leans a table against a freeway pillar and sets out […]