Fifty years ago Jackie Robinson kept a date with destiny to defy the bigots. Pat Putnam celebrates the historic day when a major talent stepped up to bring baseball’s race barriers tumbling down IT has been a Lincolnian two score and 10 years since the time when sport was an all- white domain in the […]
A board official said this week that the board had accepted 115 000 out of about 125 000 applications in the 12 months to March.
If Eugene de Kock were to be tried now, taxpayers would not have to face footing his legal bills, reports Mungo Soggot.
battle Jim Day A JOHANNESBURG marketing company is fighting the Airports Company Ltd (ACL)for damages incurred after the parastatal vrestricted business relating to the rugby World Cup. On April 15 the ACL regulator will hear the case between the parastatal and tiny Airport World Sales (AWS), which claims practices by ACL cost it R950000 in […]
The probe which prompted Van Zyl’s suspension is far from complete, raising suspicions of a witch-hunt, reports Mungo Soggot SOUTH AFRICA’S top state oil official, suspended last week, is taking the blame for a sanctions-busting deal cut for the former government. No evidence has yet been found that he personally benefited from the deal. It […]
SWAPNA PRABHAKARAN speaks to Calvin Hunt about the upcoming visit to South Africa of the famous Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre Company CALVIN HUNT does not stay in any one place for very long. As the general manager of the renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre Company, his job is to travel ahead to various […]
Organising Jo’burg’s streets is crucial to new investment, but street traders are taking issue with the new laws, reports Ferial Haffajee THE implementation of state-of-the-art by- laws to streamline hawking on Johannesburg’s streets has been indefinitely delayed as the Johannesburg Metropolitan Council hurries to start a hawker education programme, meant to have been completed by […]
Zaire’s president has reinstated a dictatorial governor he removed four years ago. Chris McGreal reports from Lumbumbashi IT is four years since Kyungu wa Kumwanza tried to revive an independent Katanga with the brutal ethnic cleansing of one million people. He even went so far as to declare secession from Zaire. It cost the demagogic […]
Ferial Haffajee COMMUNICATIONS Minister Jay Naidoo is definitely going to sell another 10% of Telkom. He just hasn’t worked out how he’s going to do it yet. Last week’s R5,58-billion deal to sell a third of Telkom to American and Malaysian partners was signed without an empowerment component. Naidoo’s next task will be to fine-tune […]
This year’s Rustlers Valley Easter Festival became a battle between the ravers and the hippies, reports SUZYBELL A WOODPECKER screeched as 900 Gemini twins howled at the half-eaten moon. Yup, the rave scene has infiltrated this once laid- back hippie pastoral happening – Rustlers Easter festival. “It’s just thud, thud, thud, thud,” moaned the hippies. […]