MONDAY, 5.30PM: THE Malawi High Court on Monday began the process of validating the will left by late former president Hastings Kamuzu Banda, at the request of his family. Banda’s will has been the object of ongoing controversy after it was revealed following his death in November that most of the sizeable fortune he amassed […]

MONDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH Africa’s Ernie Els drew level third on 282 at the $940 000 Heineken Classic golf tournament in Perth on Sunday The tournament was won by Denmark’s Thomas Bjorn after he shot a final-round 74 to beat third-round leader Welshman Ian Woosnam by one stroke. Els tied with Padraig Harrington (Ireland), Jose Maria […]

MONDAY, 12.30PM: ZIMBABWE-based Brazilian Adilson da Silva kept his cool to record a two-stroke victory in the R500 000 Nashua Wild Coast Sun Challenge. Da Silva carded a superb 66 to take him to a two-shot victory over Chris Davison, Marco Gortana, Hennie Walters and American Scott Dunlap Da Silva won with a seven-under-par 273 […]

FRIDAY, 11.10AM: INDIA’s Under-19 squad beat Pakistan by five wickets in their MTN U19 World Cup semifinal match at Kingsmead on Thursday, but it was not enough to take them into Sunday’s final at the Wanderers. Pakistan hit 188 all out in 47 overs, to which India replied with 191/5 in 40,1. South Africa are […]

South Africans have cottoned on fast to the saving — not spending — prospects of credit cards, reports Belinda Beresford More and more South Africans are using their credit cards to save as well as to spend. Banks report rising numbers of customers using their plastic as de facto savings accounts to take advantage of […]

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Kathryn Flett : Gender While I struggle by with my shampoo, cleanser, facial scrub and one pot of posh moisturiser, it has come to my attention that my thirtysomething male lodger possesses an expensive and extensive range of unguents that rehydrate, soothe and psychoanalyse. But does the man who uses a bit of butch moisturiser […]

The powerful number crunchers keep getting it wrong, writes Alex Brummer Every decade or so the men in grey suits from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington touch all of our lives. Today it is happening in Asia. In its early years the fund’s main customers were the Western economies themselves: even the mighty […]

FRIDAY, 5.45PM: THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange ended slightly firmer on Friday following a good performance by industrials. By the close the JSE the financial index had slid seven points to 11 209, and the gold index was likewise seven points weaker at 881, as the gold price failed to hold recent gains. The industrial index […]

Ferial Haffajee and Janet Smith The figures alone are enough to make you square-eyed. Together seven bidders for this country’s first national private and free television service have laid out R2.1- million to apply for a licence and each claims to have already spent between R2 and R3-million to finance the biggest media race yet […]