TONY LAWRENCE, London | Friday 11.00am. PAKISTAN and South Africa meet on Saturday in what may prove to be a dress rehearsal for the World Cup final. Mark I, however, will be as hotly contested as Mark II. South Africa, edged out by Pakistan as tournament favourites over the last few days, badly need to […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Thursday 5.40pm. STORMERS player representative Andy Marinos and captain Corne Krige will face an independent disciplinary committee hearing next Thursday about their team’s refusal to play in a Super 12 semi-final. The Stormers were crushed 33-18 by the Otago Highlanders on May 22 after they refused to take the field unless […]
TANZANIA and Kenya plan to co-host the 2004 African Nations’ Cup finals, the Football Association of Tanzania (FAT) said on Monday. FAT Secretary-General Ismail Aden Rage said FAT and its Kenyan counterpart, the KFF, reached the decision when top officials of the bodies met in Nairobi last week. Rage represented FAT in the meeting while […]
The David Gleason Column Most South African financial advisers cannot distinguish between a prospectus and marketing information, are unaware of the legal requirements relating to a prospectus, cannot read or understand financial statements, are unable to assess institutional risk and are unlikely to make intelligent inquiries about the nature of the security underlying secured debentures. […]
Peter Makurube The release of three jazz albums at the same time? It’s enough to overwhelm the ancestors of South African jazz – a night of their dreams! June 5 sees the launch at Mega Music Warehouse of three new CDs by artists who’ve stayed in the country, who neither emigrated nor sold out to […]
NIGERIA’S first parliament in more than 15 years opened Thursday in Abuja, electing a former state governor from southeast Nigeria to the country’s third-highest ranking constitutional position. The 109-member Senate and 360-member House of Representatives, elected in landmark polls in February, were declared opened by the clerks of the two assemblies. The upper chamber elected […]
Philippa Garson Class Struggle There’s nothing like an avalanche of blunt facts to send politicians and theorists scuttling back to the drawing board – at least one hopes so. When confronted with the disturbing, grainy footage of real life, rather than the crisply sanitised version stamped on to the pages of our many White Papers […]
The kugel version of the township chop- shop has found its way to Kensington, reports John Matshikiza I didn’t know what to do when I discovered the looted doors of my house in an elegant antique shop in Kensington, eastern Johannesburg. Everything had been stripped from my home with skillful precision, and the shell of […]
Cameron Duodu Letter from the North Nigeria’s new President, General Olusegun Obasanjo, has delighted his supporters by darting straight into the heart of Nigeria’s core problem: corruption. He has ordered that all contracts awarded and appointments made since January, by the military administration from which he has just taken over, should be reviewed. By doing […]
Armed robbers rammed a revolver into Jeremy Daphne’s mouth and dumped him in the veld. He lived to tell the tale Reversing out my drive, radio playing, looking forward to a cheery supper with friends. Feeling good in my new, second-hand denim jacket. Hope they will enjoy my R11,99 dry red wine. Flashy new combi […]