As part of a new management plan, the Kruger National park plans to reintroduce elephant culling Fiona Macleod The Kruger National Park is proposing to cull between 400 and 1E000 elephants a year over the next five years to control the elephant population in South Africa’s premier game park. No elephants have been culled in […]
Shaun de Waal REVIEW OFTHEWEEK Showing simultaneously at Johannesburg’s Goodman Gallery are two shows by important young South African artists, but beyond that they have little in common: if one expects some kind of dialogue between Lisa Brice’s Work in Transit and Hentie van der Merwe’s ‘Trappings’, one may be left in a state of […]
Matthew Krouse CD OFTHEWEEK I must have been 10. A difficult age to decide what you want when mother offers you a gift. I chose a Meccano set, my older sister demanded a copy of John Lennon’s album Imagine. By the time I turned 11 I was already bored with the Meccano, but somehow I […]
Shaun de Waal MOVIE OFTHEWEEK We have become accustomed, over many years now, to the sound of old-time jazz – accompanied by those plain white-on-black credits, always in the same slightly ornate, old-fashioned type – opening a Woody Allen movie. Now, for the first time, in Sweet and Lowdown, these jaunty strains signal the beginning […]
John Young CRICKET England’s lack of a Test-class all- rounder has been the subject of more than one article during their tour of South Africa. Andrew Flintoff’s tour ended with his foot in in plaster, so we won’t know for some time whether he has learned enough during this tour to become what England need. […]
Stephen Gray MACBRIDE’S BRIGADE: IRISH COMMANDOS IN THE ANGLO-BOER WAR by Donal P McCracken (Four Courts Press, Dublin) Under the Brixton Sentech tower there is a curious monument in memory of those who lost their lives fighting for the Boer cause a century ago in the various Irish Transvaal Brigades. Opened by Betsie Verwoerd in […]
The Unemployment Insurance Bill imposes harsh penalties on defaulting employers Barry Streek The extensive revamping of the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) will not only extend cover to domestic workers and seasonal workers, but is also aimed at putting the fund on a sounder financial basis and giving it a more representative board of control. The […]
David Beresford ANOTHER COUNTRY A British judge, Justice Martin Stephens, found himself in hot water last week during a case in the Old Bailey when he told the court that he had difficulty distinguishing one Ethiopian witness from another. The judge was trying to be helpful at the time, advising members of the jury as […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 5.10pm STRUGGLING state-owned diamond miner Alexkor forecast on Friday that it will halt its spiral of losses this year, helped by continuing initiatives to try to cut costs ahead of its possible privatisation. Alexkor CEO Larry Neuhoff said the mine, which has made losses since 1994, expects to show […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 7.00pm SHARES end lower for the third day in a row, with the all share index at a three-month low as futures players jostle for positions ahead of the the March contracts close-out next Thursday. The all share index ended 19 points or 0,25% at 7925, its lowest closing level […]