More than a third of South Africa’s economically active population earns between R1 000 to R5 000 a month, a category that generally sitsEuncomfortably above the basic housing subsidy level, but below theEusual financial criteria needed to qualify for a conventional housingEloan from a retail bank. That’s why changes to the Pension Funds Act,Eallowing trustees […]
THE black empowerment Uthingo consortium will operate South Africa’s state lottery, Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin announced on Friday. The lottery should be up and running in six months, Uthingo chief executive officer Humphrey Khoza said at a Johannesburg news conference where the announcement was made. The lottery is expected to contribute R100 million […]
Of the half-a-million `convicts’ shipped to Siberia to fuel the engines of the Stalinist regime, only a few survived. Eventually, they were given their freedom, and a paper to say they had not committed any crime. Yet 50 years on, many are still living in their icy prison. James Meek reports On a winter’s day […]
Shaun de Waal Pop movie of the week Stephen Somers’s film, The Mummy, updates the 1932 original via Indiana Jones, making of it an adventure romp rather than a mere horror flick, though the monster still takes centre stage in this hugely enjoyable creature feature. He is not the somewhat sad figure provided by Boris […]
Net users used to say that “information wants to be free”, but the new trend is for websites that will pay you to read them. Frequent surfers can collect cash in the form of “ipoints” or beenz the way frequent flyers collect air miles, as website owners sign up for rewards schemes that encourage customers […]
Jack Schofield & Sean Dodson What’s New Apple is expected to unveil a portable and probably colourful Macintosh computer aimed at consumers at the MacWorld show in New York later this month (July 20 to 23). The P1, which may be called the WebMate, is being made in Taiwan by Alpha Top, and is expected […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: THE South African Under-21 team beat their English counterparts by 41-12 in their Sanzar/UAR U21 Tournament match in the second round of the event at the UWC Stadium in Bellville on Wednesday night. The South Africans, who lost 41-6 to Argentina in their tournament opener, blitzed the English with a five-try strike in […]
University of the North vice-chancellor Njabulo Ndebele says he is proud of Edupark and its achievements.
Review of the week Struan Douglas When Nelson Mandela opened the National Arts Festival’s anniversary celebrations with his compassionate shuffle on June 29, African jazz started going mad all over town. Ebbing, flowing, dipping, peaking, threatening boredom, crying unprogressive yet ensuring its longevity. We’ve had the retrospective perennials. July 1 was devoted to old timers […]
Anthony Egan ROGUES, REBELS AND RUNAWAYS: 18TH-CENTURY CAPE CHARACTERS by Nigel Penn (David Philip) When asked how their latest work is doing, academics sometimes joke ironically about selling the film rights. In Nigel Penn’s case, a discerning film producer really could turn these true stories of violence, sex, race and class into costume epics of […]