THE Jewish Board of Deputies in the United Kingdom is investigating complaints that an exhibition by leading South African artist, William Kentridge, is anti-Semitic. Offence has reportedly been caused by some of the animated films which form the focus of the exhibition and depict characters called Soho Eckstein and Felix Teitelbaum. Kentridge, himself a Jew, […]
NINE oil exploration firms have come together to launch the Offshore Petroleum Association of South Africa (Opasa), a pressure group to convey the upstream industry’s interests to the government. The firms are Energy Africa, Forest Oil Corporation, Mossgas,PanCanadian Petroleum Limited, Phillips Petroleum SA, Petroleum Limited, Pioneer Natural Resources SA, Sasol Petroleum International and Soekor. The […]
GUNMEN shot dead a grandmother, mother, teenager and baby, all from the same family, near Pomery in KwaZulu-Natal province at the weekend, police said on Monday. The killers then burnt down the Ndlovu family’s rural homestead. Police believe the massacre was in revenge for the killing of a traditional chief, also from the Ndlovu family, […]
MICROSOFT SA, the Associated South African Music Industry and the Pretoria branch of the police commercial crime unit this week joined forces against copyright violation. In a joint statement issued on Friday, the three bodies said the police, at the request of Microsoft and ASAMI, conducted a raid on a person suspected of making illegal […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kingston | Monday 9.00am BAFANA BAFANA completed a two-match tour of the Caribbean by drawing 1-1 with Jamaica at the Independence Stadium in Kingston on Sunday. The 1996 African champions, who suffered a shock 2-0 loss in Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday, showed greater urgency and commitment in a friendly match that seldom […]
A 900-ton arsenal of weapons was tracked down and destroyed in Mozambique during the last few months by a specialist unit of the South African Police Service. Sunday newspaper Rapport said the top secret operation formed part of Operation Rachel, which was started in 1995 to stop the flow of weapons into South Africa. Included […]
ALLAN Boesak, who has petitioned the Chief Justice for leave to appeal following his recent six-year sentence for theft, has confirmed that his wife Elna is five months pregnant with their second child. “I’m ecstatic,” Boesak is reported in the Cape Times as saying. He was sentenced in March to six years imprisonment for stealing […]
HOOKER James Dalton, only recently recovered from a groin injury, has re-injured his groin on the same side while kicking in a training session. Dalton has played a couple of club games for Rand Afrikaans, but has not suited up for a Super 12 match yet, and will miss tests against Italy and Wales. James […]
DIMENSION DATA, South Africa’s largest communication systems integration company, completed an excellent six months to end March 1999, with turnover increasing 54% to a record R2,7 billion. Headline earnings rose 90% to R176,9-million and headline earnings per share increasing 61% to 27,1 cents. The group ended the six months with a 178% increase in its […]
VISITING Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe held talks with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Khatami on Saturday on ways to promote political and economic ties, state radio said. Mugabe, who arrived here on Friday, said Zimbabwe was willing to expand cooperation in various sectors, including agriculture, mining and refining. During his three-day visit, Mugabe is also due […]