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/ 25 September 2001
DARREN SCHUETTLER, Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH Africa’s Gold Fields Ltd said on Monday it was eyeing more acquisitions in Australia and would spend up to $15-million a year searching for more gold on its two new mines in the western outback. Gold Fields announced on Friday that it had reached an agreement with Australia’s WMC […]
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/ 25 September 2001
THE South African bourse edged higher at Wednesday’s open with mining giant Anglo American recovering from Tuesday’s drubbing. Market heavyweight Anglo hopped up 1,89% or 180 cents to R96,80, boosting the benchmark all-share index 0,23% to 7,899.1. Financial stocks also crept back on optimism that the central bank will cut interest rates this week after […]
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/ 25 September 2001
Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH African shares bounced 2,5% higher in mid-morning trade on Tuesday, inspired by Wall Street’s overnight rebound, but traders said weaker US futures could cap further advances. The benchmark all-share index gained 187 points to 7,568 at 0900 GMT, led by mining house Anglo American Plc. Anglo, the bourse’s biggest share, hurdled […]
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/ 21 September 2001
b>Creature feature of the week: </b> Johnston has dispensed almost entirely with lyrical wonder and concentrated on horror and violence, the result is a dark, almost morbid picture that is unsuitable for younger children and squeamish adults, writes Philip French.
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/ 21 September 2001
Costume drama of the week:</b> In <i>The King Is Dancing</i>, Corbiau leaps from one scene to the next, without much bridging or build-up, and keeps the emotional temperature high. He all but dispenses with the recitative; the film is all arias, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 21 September 2001
Sarah Jones is on a mission to influence the depiction of black people in the media. She’s visiting South Africa along with fellow poet Steve Colman, writes Thebe Mabanga.
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/ 21 September 2001
The organisers of South Africa’s first significant all-digital, non-commercial exhibition are calling for entries. Hoping to create a new awareness of the digital medium as an art form, the exhibition will open on October 31 at the Vega School of Brand Communication in Benmore, Sandton.
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/ 21 September 2001
Argentinian-born film producer Fernando Sulichin will be in Durban during the city’s International Film Festival to conduct several workshops and to introduce the South African prèmiere of the Sulichin-produced <i>Bully</i>, the new film by Larry Clark — a frank and explicit portrait of the violent, nihilistic youth of the United States, based on a real-life murder in Florida.
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/ 21 September 2001
Comment Charlotte Raven Most people in the world had more than one response to what happened to the United States last week. I think it is safe to say that apart from three or four Palestinians, everyone is sad to see so many of their fellow humans killed in such horrendous circumstances. That goes for […]
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/ 21 September 2001
THE United Nations offices in Pretoria were evacuated on Wednesday after police sniffer dogs reacted to two vehicles in the basement car park during a routine check, UN official John Ohiorhenuan said. The bomb squad was brought in and police evacuated everyone as a precaution, he said, but after a thorough search nothing suspicious was […]