Sarah Duguid
latest news & developmentsANC ‘behaving like Nat regime’
The African National Congress government is following the example of the apartheid regime in its handling of World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) protests,…
Victims reconcile with IFP
An emotional meeting in Boipatong saw the date set for a formal reconciliation between the Boipatong victims group and the Inkatha Freedom Party.
US cuts funding to UN health care agency
The Bush administration is undermining international efforts to use conferences such as the World Summit on Sustainable Development to improve health care and family planning for…
Quacks bring nuts-and-jolts Aids ‘cures’ to Orange Farm
CHARLATANS gull squatter camp residents with bizarre machines, crystals and health foods. People queue to see the man they call "the electronic doctor". No one can say exactly…
Beware, office deadbeats
CORPORATE crime is increasingly coming under the spotlight and slackers, as much as thieves, are in for a hiding
Big news for business
SINCE 1994 thousands of people have left the safe world of permanent employment and a guaranteed pay cheque to start their own businesses
New life in death business
AS economists predict the onset of a national emergency, one industry is looking into the future and rubbing its hands with glee: the funeral industry. The world’s population is…
Gold theft is big business
Thieves pillage 35 tons of pure gold, at a value of nearly R2-billion from South African mines, every year – and arrest rates are steadily declining