Leader: Laurent Kabila General area of operations: western and southern Congo. Forces: Armed Forces of the Congo (FAC): 40 000 to 45 000 poor-quality troops, most of them formerly in Mobutu’s army, collected by Kabila and stationed around the country. Angolan armed forces: 2 500 to 3 000, stationed mainly around the diamond mining centre […]
Shaun de Waal American movie of the week Playwright Neil LaBute’s first film, In the Company of Men (never released theatrically in South Africa, but now on video) is a nasty tale of twisted games- playing. It is driven by the character of an amoral man seeking revenge on womanhood in general, and picking on […]
Jacques Rautenbach Product: Acer TravelMate 330T Price: R18 995 With so much new kit having entered the technology market over the past year, one tends to start feeling a little blas about new products. Things don’t seem to be changing radically enough to impress. But every now and then you come across a real gem […]
Michael Fitzpatrick Body Language Every weekday, 14-year-old Junko Satoh is forced to wear the clothes that have a nation in sexual and moral turmoil. Cotton socks, loafers and prim navy suits are not the stuff that unbuttons most male libidos, but to Japanese men, wrestling with a Lolita complex, school uniforms have become highly provocative. […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Friday 12.30pm. EVEN with 24 hours to go before the kick-off of the Iwisa Charity Soccer Spectacular, the real winners and losers in the annual one-day extravaganza are already known. Ajax Cape Town (formerly Seven Stars) are the winners after accumulating a staggering 56683 votes (43580 telephonic and 13103 postal). What […]
Phillip vanNiekerk >From the Editor’s Desk In his lengthy reply last week to Evidence wa ka Ngobeni’s article, ”Top academic in R20-million funding row”, former University of the North vice-chancellor Professor Njabulo Ndebele failed to refute the essence of the story: that an independent commission of inquiry found that the funding for Ndebele’s company, Edupark, […]
TWO Netball South Africa players were gunned down in a parking lot at the close of the Unibank South Africa Open Championships on Thursday night. Irma du Preez (27) from Port Elizabeth, and Lia Liebenberg (30) from Kempton Park, were both shot in the head at in the parking lot of the Avion Park stadium. […]
NEDBANK and two of its strategic partners have acquired a 75% stake in the Finance Corporation of Malawi, following its devolvement from government. The general manager of Nedbank Africa, Keith Key, said that the purchase is a new strategy for Nedbank to establish a network of banks in the sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the Southern […]
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Thursday 5.30pm. SOUTH African markets waited for direction from the release of US Consumer Price Index information on Thursday, and then stayed with the data’s “no-direction” message. Most JSE indices closed without much change on Thursday, and bonds and the rand weakened slightly. US CPI data showed consumer prices unchanged in […]
CAMEROON triple jumper Francoise Mbango broke the African record in the discipline in La Roche-Sur-Yon, Frnace, on Sunday jumping 14.66m to beat the old mark set by Algeria’s Baya Rahouli by 47cm. The 23-year-old, whose jump put her into the world’s top 10 performances, remained unmoved by her achievement. “Before I came here I had […]