More active policy and less macro-economic theology is the only way to get South Africa on to agrowth path, argues the SACP’s Jeremy Cronin A friend in the finance ministry of a West African state once described a visit from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Meeting with the ministry, the IMF official hauled out his […]
Danielle James WINNING an endurance event is an achievement in anyone’s book, but getting to the top and staying there, year after year against all odds and changing circumstances, takes one from the realm of the possible to the impossible. Equestrian star Graham Winn is a man who operates in the realm of the impossible. […]
FRIDAY, 10.30AM THE Reserve Bank, in its drive to boost reserves ahead of its July 1 lifting of exchange controls, has acquired yet another foreign credline, this time a $1,5-billion revolving credit facility with a group of international banks. “The Reserve Bank is confident that, taking account of the current level of the official foreign […]
Wheeling and dealing in government money has left some officials dazed, confused … and in trouble A year ago, Terror Lekota fired a man. The action led to his own `redeployment’. Now a report shows Lekota may have been right, writes Rehana Rossouw THE senior African National Congress official who helped oust former Free State […]
Benjamin Pogrund THE GOOD NAZI: THE LIFE AND LIES OF ALBERT SPEER by Dan van der Vat (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, R190) THE title tells the story. There is none of the toing-and-froing, did he know, didn’t he know about the fate of the Jews under Nazism, as portrayed by Gitta Sereny in her monumental Albert […]
THURSDAY, 3.30PM THE Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species summit in Harare on Thursday approved a compromise proposal on the lifting of the worldwide ban on the ivory trade to allow Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe to sell their ivory stockpiles to Japan under tightly controlled conditions. After an earlier vote on the proposal was […]
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Yes, you can find peace and quiet (and free babysitting) in Johannesburg – among the books at the city’s main library, writes Katy Bauer AT 7.30am, parking beneath the Library Gardens is easy to find. A highly missable single wooden door at one end of the garage allows for super-safe, almost covert access to Johannesburg’s […]
air Mungo Soggot FORMER Central Energy Fund chair Roy Pithey has swatted suggestions this week from Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs Penuell Maduna that the operation engaged in irregular accounting practices. Maduna told Parliament that the results of his investigation into the fund’s post-1992 operations would be handed over “soon”. The probe -which triggered […]
Gustav Thiel AN international human rights commission has accused the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of ignoring the role played by psychiatrists and psychologists in abusing human rights under the apartheid regime. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights said it had uncovered a “determined effort by the apartheid regime to use the field of mental health […]