newsroom’ Matthew Krouse Election coverage on television was a long and protracted low-key drama. Jumping to the different polling stations with the SABC, one got a good look at South Africa in its winter garb. Sadly, we must be the worst-dressed nation on earth. Of course, the coverage wasn’t a fashion show. Rather, it was […]
Thandi Mahlangu While most party leaders were ushered to the front of long lines of voters on Wednesday, Northern Cape Premier Manne Dipico steadfastly refused to jump the queue, waiting in line for seven hours before he finally cast his ballot. “I can’t go to the front – I must wait like everyone else,” Dipico […]
SOUTH Africans Ernie Els and Retief Goosen finished joint fourth in the British PGA Championship on Monday. The even was won by current holder Colin Montgomerie. Pre-tournament favourite Els struggled with his iron play on the final day on Monday and took 68 for a share of fourth place on 277. He was later joined […]
WITH six team members in the top 10 of both the drivers and co-drivers championships and currently leading four of the six classes, Team Total looks set to make its presence strongly felt in the 1999 Sasol Rally, which starts in Sabie (Mpumalanga) on June 18 and ends in Nelspruit on June 19. It will […]
Mungo Soggot The United Democratic Movement this week slated the business community for the African National Congress’s majority, saying business could have thwarted the landslide victory had it supported opposition parties The UDM emerged as a significant opposition player, on track this week to bag at least nine seats in the National Assembly, which will […]
Last weekend M-Net presented prizes totaling R230 000 to the winners in the various language categories of the annual M-Net Book Prize, given to a novel published within the previous year. The winners were: l English: The Tikieline Yuppie by Mehlaleng Mosotho (Vivlia) l Afrikaans: Op Soek na Generaal Mannetjies Mentz by Christoffel Coetzee (Queillerie) […]
Andrew Muchineripi in Durban Soccer The moment of truth has arrived for Bafana Bafana after a 2000 African Nations Cup qualifying campaign that has proved more difficult than many supporters expected. South Africa lead the Group 4 standings with seven points entering the penultimate round this weekend followed by Gabon with six, surprise packets Mauritius […]
John Matshikiza With the Lid Off So what has changed in the past five years? I’ve seen quite a lot of this country recently, travelling both by road and by air. South Africa remains a highly peculiar place. In the air, the service has got much better, and the cabin crews no longer seem to […]
THURSDAY, 6.00PM: WITH the panic of a market crash abating, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange dragged itself through a very lacklustre Thursday. All key indices ended at the low-end of the trading range, with Andre Crawford-Brunt of Deutsche Morgen Grenfell describing the day as “soggy”. There was praise all round, however, for Reserve Bank governor Chris […]
It may be worth losing a few percentage points growth on your investments in exchange for a peaceful night’s sleep, writes Shaun Harris Investment decisions should be amoral, shouldn’t they? In a perfect world, perhaps. But suspending moral judgment is not easy in modern society where the profit motive is still widely regarded with suspicion […]