Donna Block Share World They say variety is the spice of life. So if you’re looking to spice up your investment portfolio, warrants could be just the ticket. Warrants are a right to buy or sell a specific asset at a specific price for a designated period of time. They make it possible for investors […]
South African art history, such as it is, is marked by a pattern of selective amnesias and cyclical returns. Remembering Legae, the Goodman Gallery’s homage to this artist, who died earlier this year, is a return, if you like, that offers a fascinating insight into that history, a still point in which to consider the […]
The David Gleason Column Now that the euphoric Mandela years of transformation are about to become history, the hard part will begin. The imperative for the next president will be to deliver growth. And that, given the bizarre policy actions adopted by the Reserve Bank, is being made more difficult daily. Governor Chris Stals is […]
FACup Andrew Muchineripi Soccer For FA Cup read Bob Save Super Bowl, for Manchester United read Kaizer Chiefs, for Newcastle United read SuperSport United. The Red Devils defeated the Magpies 2-0 on the green turf of Wembley last Saturday and it would come as no surprise if the Amakhosi triumph by the same margin this […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.30PM: SOUTH Africa’s women’s hockey team lost their final pool match at the World Cup against Australia in Utrecht, but gave the girls from down under quite a runaround in the match, which ended at 5-2. The score may look like a walkover, but the Australians had to pull out all the stops to […]
Alex Clark THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham (Fourth Estate) Michael Cunningham’s new novel – winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction -may have been inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (working title: The Hours) but it quickly slips free of these moorings to become a far more daring, imaginative project than might be implied by […]
Nigeria’s transition to democracy will come full circle on Saturday. Chris McGreal reports Nigeria’s first elected president in two decades will be sworn in on Saturday to grapple with a plundered treasury, decaying infrastructure and unrest in the oil fields, while wondering if there’s a soldier waiting to take his job. President Nelson Mandela is […]
Mungo Soggot Mafia boss Vito Palazzolo surfaced in the Johannesburg High Court recently to bat off extraordinary claims that two Johannesburg businessmen paid him R2-million for the use of his police contacts. Although Palazzolo only gave evidence, he retained former Witwatersrand attorney general, Klaus von Lieres und Wilkau, SC, to sit in on his testimony […]
MILITARY personnel are now allowed to join labour unions, following a Constitutional Court ruling on Wednesday, but this does not give them the right to go on strike. The Court has confirmed a 1998 Pretoria High Court ruling that an Defence Act ban on military personnel belonging to unions is unconstitutional. The South African National […]
Sue Williamson Art Dialogue is yet another initiative which had its germination in the Second Johannesburg Biennale in 1997. (A point worth making to all those with cultural money to allocate who consider biennales a waste of time and money). Ralph Seippel, who shows young international artists in his Cologne gallery, came to Johannesburg for […]