THURSDAY, 12.30PM: The slow pace of entries for this year’s Comrades Marathon has made a sudden turnaround and organisers are now expecting a record entry for the June 16 downhill race after a last-minute rush of entries last week. From just over 1 000 entries the previous week, total entries soared to 4 410 by […]
THURSDAY 12.00NOON The trade and industry department yesterday announced the early termination of the controversial General Export Incentive Scheme due to budgetary constraints. The scheme will cease on July 11 The scheme was introduced in 1990 to offer financial incentives to local manufacturers to increase exports after years of apartheid isolation. Payouts in terms of […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH African tennis international Wayne Ferreira seems set on a career as a serial loser after bowing out of a major tournament once again. The third seed and world number 10 opted out of the first round of the $425 000 BMW Open yesterday with the same 6-3 6-4 score against the same […]
THURSDAY, 2.00PM: TWO stock thieves were shot dead and several people were injured yesterday afternoon when a group of rustlers on horseback attacked a group of SA and Lesotho security force members rounding up stolen livestock at Qubenga on the Lesotho border. About 60 horsemen surrounded the group, firing on them and attacking them with […]
Hazel Friedman SOUTH AFRICAN art and culture can look forward to some of the whopping R68-million extra that has been allocated to art, culture, science and technology in the 1997/98 budget. But very little will reach arts and culture. This is due to an increase in the size of the administration budget and the growing […]
`decent death’ What do you do when a patient asks for `help at the end’? Bert Keizer gives his response THERE has always been a mad fringe around the euthanasia debate, which could make you forget that behind all the nonsense there must be the possibility of a sensible conversation about the subject. About a […]
Sanco is struggling to survive amid tensions between its socialist stalwarts and newborn capitalists,reports Mungo Soggot ONE of the bulwarks of the anti-apartheid struggle, the South African National Civics Organisation (Sanco), has virtually ground to a halt, crippled by debts of R1,5- million. A report read by former Sanco secretary general Penrose Ntlonti at the […]
A change of venue from Zaire to Togo is as good as a holiday for South Africa’s footballers, but they will have to work hard to get a good result SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi LET us start by separating fact from fiction. South Africa can defeat Zaire in the World Cup this weekend and fail to […]
The welfare minister insists new, leaner grants for poor children must be made for the sake of equality. But critics say she is robbing Peter to pay Paul. Marion Edmunds reports THE Cabinet may ram the government’s controversial child grant system through Parliament by proclamation, if there is not enough time to get a Bill […]
Fifties jazz stars, The Manhattan Brothers, are being reclaimed in a new documentary. GLYNISO’HARA recalls the days of King Kong and kwela MEETING and listening to musicians active before the rock’n’roll era is a pleasure rarely savoured in this country. Peter Rezant, the leader of the Merry Blackbirds, formed in 1929, and active into the […]