With seven new commercial radio stations, advertisers and listeners are flirting with the dial. Brett Davidson and Ferial Haffajee report Seven new commercial radio stations have jumped on the bandwagon – both FM and Medium Wave – this year, sparking a listening revolution. Station managers say many listeners are flirting with the dial, dipping into […]

Peter Preston Gerald Scarfe was one of the most vicious cartoonist-satirists of the Sixties. He made Harold Wilson lick LBJ’s backside, Richard Nixon wipe his with the American flag. He hacked open heads and let the cortex of politics drip to the floor. He was the scabrous spirit of a slimy age. And now? Meet […]

Andy Duffy One of the country’s most influential ambassadors has rejected an invitation to join Western Cape Premier Hernus Kriel’s provincial Cabinet. Kriel, who is to reshuffle and expand his Cabinet in line with the province’s new Constitution, approached LT Links, South Africa’s ambassador to the European Union, to persuade him to take a seat […]

Madeleine Wackernagel The world’s central banks hold 28 years’ worth of gold supply, and signs are they are not going to step out of the market in a hurry. First Australia, then Russia and the Swiss, and now the Germans have sold down their reserves in the past few months. Other European central banks could […]

A Second Look : Timothy Trengove-Jones aIt is a truism that the love which once dared not speak its name is now unstoppably voluble. On stage, on screen, in the media, yes, even on the streets, homosexuals are articulating their presence with increasing confidence. And, on November 25 1997, almost 100 years after the (in)famous […]

The word scandal is so easily bandied about these days that it has lost some of its meaning. Perhaps, when contemplating the activities of Don Mkhwanazi, head of the Central Energy Fund, it is worth reminding ourselves of the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of the word: something which occasions “general feeling of outrage and indignation”. […]

Ferial Haffajee At least eight women will have been raped by the time you read to the end of this page. Three years into the new democracy and a woman is still raped every 36 seconds in South Africa, perhaps even more frequently if the growing numbers of reported rapes indicate an increase in the […]

Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer On a cold, wet evening in the industrial heartland of Germany the inevitable happened last weekend with the champions of Europe showing the champions of Africa just how wide the gap is between the continents on the football field. Bafana Bafana apologists have made much of their understrength team, conveniently forgetting […]

THURSDAY, 5.30PM: THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange today made up Wednesday’s losses, with the all share index rising 31 points to 6423, the industrial index climbing 35 points to 7950 and the financial index 90 points stronger at 9917. The all gold index shed 6 points to 785. The all gold index shed 6 points to […]

FRIDAY, 11:30AM: The shortlist of bidders for the government-owned resort company Aventura was announced on Thursday by Public Enterprises Minister Stella Sigcau. Among them: Kopano ke Matla, which is Cosatu’s investment trust, and includes Protea Hotels, Rennies Travel, Samrand, the International Finance Corporation and a Danish group, the Danish People Holiday Landsorgnisationei; Sanco Consortium, which […]