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It will be bloody, but Hewlett-Packard and Compaq were left few options other than a merger and radical surgery Edmond Warner As they strode into work last Tuesday morning, Wall Street’s finest must have believed that at long last they were witnessing the turn in the investment banking cycle. The New York Times was carrying […]

Gavin Willacy speaks to Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, who is in his final season at Old Trafford You’ve bought some world-class players, which means a couple of others are going to have to sit out matches. How do you think those star names will cope with being left out? Well, it’s not easy for […]

Giles Foden Stories about him are legion. How he was known as one of the “Gucci muj”, the scions of rich Arab families who poured into Afghanistan in the late 1980s to help the rougher-hewn mujahedin fight the Soviets. How, having won his spurs, Osama bin Laden led an assault in the siege of Jalalabad […]

Kabul | Friday AS US strikes against Afghanistan appear more and more likely, the whereabouts of terror suspect Osama bin Laden remain a closely guarded secret. Rumours are rife that he has been on the move since Tuesday’s horrific terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, but no one outside his inner circle of close […]

Noam Chomsky The terrorist attacks were major atrocities. In scale they may not reach the level of many others, for example, Clinton’s bombing of the Sudan with no credible pretext, destroying half its pharmaceutical supplies and killing unknown numbers of people (no one knows, because the United States blocked an inquiry at the United Nations […]

Drew Forrest The government and labour are on the brink of an agreement that would mean the dropping of a state plan to break up and concession a major part of Spoornet’s freight business to private operators. Earlier this week the Department of Labour’s head of restructuring, Leslie Maasdorp, suggested that the listing of SAA […]

There is a view among some South Africans that the United States had its just desserts when hijacked airliners cannoned into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon this week. Some even suggested that the attacks marked the beginning of the end of the “American empire”. The idea that US military and economic muscle has […]

M&G reporter Bato Star Fishing formed a development initiative in 1996 with the Mineworkers” Investment Company (MIC) and Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union Investment Group (SIG). Management interest in Bato is held through Intlantzi Ze Afrika while controlling shareholding is held by SIG through the South African Amalgamated Union Fishing. Through SIG and […]

Patrick Collinson Insurers on the World Trade Centre’s twin towers will pay out for the loss of only one tower because experts believed that the collapse of both towers simultaneously was too far-fetched to be worth insuring, it emerged on Wednesday. The Port Authority of New York, the owner of the towers, is likely to […]

CHRISTOPHER MICHAUD, New York | Friday THE developer who led the group that bought a 99-year lease of the trade center said he was determined to help rebuild the complex, as well as 7 World Trade Center, a neighboring building that also collapsed, the Wall Street Journal said in its online edition on Friday. “It […]

Justin Arenstein and Ongeri John The two South African Aids quacks who were booted out of Tanzania last week left behind a string of debts, including a R68 000 telephone bill. Jacques Zigi Visser and Themba Khumalo were deported last Saturday in the wake of mounting controversy about their role in trials of the discredited […]

Marianne Merten Cape gang boss Rashied Staggie, who three years ago claimed he had found the Lord and renounced gangsterism, is facing charges of raping and kidnapping a 17-year old girl. He was released on bail of R10000 by the Mitchells Plain Regional Court on Monday after a week in custody. His co-accused’s bid for […]

The World Trade Centre not only dominated the skyscape of New York, but towered over the American imagination. Darryl Pinckney, who watched it being built, mourns the loss of a landmark No one I know loved the World Trade Centre, or recalled their first visits to it, in the way that they remember being taken […]

KathrynSmith 65 Galway Road, Parkview, Johannesburg. Opening on September 28 at 6pm for a very short run, Carol Lee presents Incidental Landscapes, an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Carl Becker. Thereafter, it’s open all day on September 29 and 30 with viewing by appointment from October 1 to 3. Tel: 486 0526. African […]

Barry Streek Far from shunning small and medium enterprises in the fishing industry as most other finance houses have done until now, Business Partners established after the demise of the Small Business Development Corporation (SBDC) has continued to support them. Business Partners, which is 80% owned by the private sector and 20% by the government, […]

STUART GRUDGINGS, Tokyo | Wednesday TRAUMATISED financial markets showed signs of steadying on Thursday, helped by a huge fund injection by world central banks in response to the vicious attack on US power centres. But deep uncertainty as well as horror at the human cost ensured trade remained very light and stock markets were still […]

A set of readers, written by teachers, will reach about 160 000 learners throughout South Africa Jubie Matlou Road safety awareness is one subject very close to Alice Segola’s heart. This is not surprising because this is a subject that affects many of her pupils at St Ann’s primary school in Atte-ridgeville, outside Pretoria. When […]

Neal Collins So it’s all off. The Champions League fixtures have been cancelled. No more talk of Manchester United’s “life-or-death” clash with Olymp-iakos, or the “tragedy” of Arsenal’s defeat at Real Mallorca on Tuesday. No, the sensible course has been taken. Call it all off; give us time to reflect, let life, for those of […]

Now the applications have been completed, officials are faced with the tough task of allocating fishing rights Barry Streek The first phase of one of South Africa’s biggest empowerment deals the allocation of new fishing quotas was completed this week. Between 6 000 and 9 000 applications were expected for the 1 000 to 1 […]

Alex Sudheim African Art Centre, first floor, Tourist Junction, 160 Pine Street. One of Durban’s top contemporary art galleries hosts a showcase of KwaZulu-Natal artistic talent titled Asibuke Abantu: Looking at People, an exhibition featuring the work of 31 invited artists. Some of the artists are well-known painters Sfiso ka-Mkame, George Msimang, Carl Roberts and […]

REVIEW Gavin Foster Toyota Camry, R175 651 to R270 320 The new Australian-built Toyota Camry is here, and it offers pretty well what its predecessor did spacious, safe, reliable motoring in a conservative package. Toyota says that the car is aimed at existing and previous Camry owners, and will be marketed as a family car […]

WAYNE COLE, Singapore | Wednesday POLICY makers and central banks around the world are pulling out the stops to prevent the US terror attacks from so unhinging business and consumer confidence that a recession becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert McTeer spoke for many on Wednesday when he said it […]

On the 20th birthday of the PC, the launch of Windows XP could be the end of DOS as we know it, says Jack Schofield At the end of last month the grey skies over Seattle turned blue after a week of rain, and a helicopter took off from the Microsoft campus with briefcases holding […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Two days after the World Conference against Racism ended in Durban, thousands of Eastern Cape residents went on the rampage, looting shops belonging to foreign, Muslim businessmen. Kwanobuhle police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Nkosinathi Isaac, who described the incident as the “worst xenophobic incident ever in the Eastern Cape”, said Somali and […]

The US mobilises support from its Western allies for a crusade against Islamist terrorism Julian Borger in Washington, Richard Norton-Taylor and Ewen MacAskill in London and Ian Black in Brussels Nato is drawing up an emergency plan for a massive attack on Afghanistan if proof emerges that Osama bin Laden, the wanted Saudi-born terrorist sheltered […]

Chris Roper 3rd I Gallery, 95 Waterkant Street. Telling Tales is a group exhibition of narrative art work, art based on the classic theme of telling a story. The exhibition showcases art in a wide range of media and includes work by artists such as Lien Botha, Kevin Brand, Randy Hartzenberg, Peter van Straten, Arlene […]

in my beloved country this week from South Africa, which I have come to call home, has forced me to reflect on these catastrophic events in a way that is probably different from most of my fellow citizens living back home. While on the one hand millions of people around the world are horrified by […]

Nicholas Guyatt predicted the attack The American military has overwhelmed its opponents abroad and an increasing reliance on air power and guided missiles has mini-mised disruption or even awareness of these conflicts at home. Given the increasing pace of technological change, however, it is hard to believe that the United States will continue to go […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Combined Fishing Enterprises, one of a few of the genuine black-owned family businesses in the fishing industry, has weathered many a storm in realising its goals. Its vision is to become a formid-able force in the South African fishing industry and to have a world-renowned brand of quality products. The family […]

Ghosts of electricity CDs of the week Bob Dylan:Love and Theft; The Essential Bob Dylan Shaun de Waal The first track on Bob Dylan’s new album, Love and Theft (Columbia), makes one fear the worst. Hearing Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, with its careless rhymes and silly metaphors, you think: Oh no, not another Under […]

The clothes at this year’s Fashion Week were creative and youthful, more wearable and affordable Charl Blignaut Bustling through the doors two shows late and already out of breath on the first day of Fashion Week, you’ve got to wonder how there can be next to nothing going down in Jo’burg for weeks on end […]

Belinda Beresford As President Thabo Mbeki waded back into the controversy surrounding HIV/Aids, the government was preparing to defend itself in court against its former allies, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). The TAC lawsuit accuses the national and provincial health departments of breaching the Constitution by failing to provide anti-retroviral drugs to HIV-positive pregnant women. […]