The innovative recording label MELT2000 is proving to be a home for new musical talent Claire Bezuidenhout Robert Trunz sits with his hi-tech Nokia mini office gadget retrieving e-mails, sending MP3s, surfing the Net, answering calls from hopeful musicians and drinking ice cold water. He is one of a few people who can handle 18 […]
The National Chamber Orchestra is set to follow the National Symphony Orchestra into oblivion Belinda Beresford The legacy of Lucas Mangope is haunting Shadrack Bokaba, one of South Africa’s few black orchestral violinists. Bokaba had been due to audition for a place at the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) in January. Unluckily his audition was on […]
PAPER and pulp manufacturer Sappi on Thursday forecast significant gains in earnings per share this year and more progress in trimming debts. ”[Sappi] is on track for a substantial increase in earnings per share and a further significant debt reduction in the current financial year,” chief executive Eugene van As told the group’s annual general […]
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GAUTENG moved to the top of the Standard Bank log after beating former table-toppers Easterns by five wickets at Willowmoore Park in Benoni on Wednesday. Easterns were all-out for 112 in just over 40 overs and Gauteng looked set for an easy win. They did not reckon 19-tear-old Albie Morkel into the equasion, however, and […]
DOCKERS in Ivory Coast’s main port Abidjan lifted a wildcat strike threat on Wednesday after the ruling military junta made clear that it would not tolerate any more stoppages. Dockers leaders and senior government officials said the dockers, who were threatened with arrest if they ignore the warning, have agreed to negotiate via their recognised […]
ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba has committed 800 peacekeepers to Sierra Leone and said his country would welcome a role in policing the ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Returning from a regional conference in Egypt, Chiluba told reporters that Zambia had been formally asked to contribute 800 soldiers to the peacekeeping effort in Sierra […]
BOLAND beat Western Province by 19 runs in a Standard Banl League thriller on Wednesday. Boland’s Charl Langeveldt and Charl Willoughby did most of the damage, bowling out Province for 142. Boland scored 161 after suffering a collapse on 150/5. Boland move into second spot on the log with the win over their neighbours.
RUSTENBURG police are still searching for a man alleged to have killed his ex wife and two other people on Monday night. Hendrik Slippers, 38, shot and killed Hazel Slippers, 28, and her future in-laws, George and Merle Smith, 46 and 44 respectively. The Smith couple’s daughters, Wendy, 21, and Judy, 18, were both wounded […]
HEALTH commentators on Tuesday widely slammed as “laughable” comments by a health department representative that the ministry may reappraise scientific evidence that HIV causes Aids. They were reacting to a statement by Dr Ian Roberts, a special adviser to Health Minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, that the department is looking into the feasibility of getting a […]