Donna Block Last year I wrote about the London and Frankfurt exchanges merging and how that was going to give European investors bigger and better trading opportunities. Well, forget it. Then I gave you the low-down on lots of other European exchanges that were poised to take off. Forget that too. You can forget it […]
divider Zimbabwe was once seen as one of the success stories of Africa after colonialism. But there are pictures which still tell a tale of division. In 1999, the issues are black and white, but also about class, writes Andrew Meldrum The Harare Club’s teak-panelled walls speak of years of tradition, privilege and exclusivity, dating […]
Oupa Bodibe One of apartheid’s many enduring legacies is the culture of secrecy that pervades public and private sector institutions. Our Constitution recognises a right of access to information, and Parliament has to enact legislation by February 2000 to give full effect to this right. This week, the portfolio committee on justice held hearings on […]
THE Southern African Development Community Task Force is poised to establish a command structure to effectively rebuff a rebel onslaught in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “We felt that such a unified command structure will co-ordinate our forces and strategically combat fierce fighting in the east of the country,” Brigadier-General Denga […]
THE South African Under 19 rugby team got their 1999 IRB/Fira Junior World Championship campaign off to a winning start on Wednesday night in Newport, Wales, with a hard fought 17-12 victory over Newport Juniors. Wing Jacques Booysen, centre Jean de Villiers and lock Louis Holtzhausen scored the sides’ tries while talented flyhalf Daniel Philander […]
Lisa Buckingham A new equities index, which will include the world’s largest and most international companies, is to start in London later this year. FTSE International, the organisation that operates Britain’s share indices, is about to sign a contract to run the new benchmark, which has the working title Global Multinational Index. A series of […]
Howard Barrell:OVER A BARREL As President Nelson Mandela prepared his farewell to Parliament this week, I could not help feeling that the grand old man was not the only person deserving of applause. Every MP could also justifiably take a bow. So, too, could each South African. For Mandela’s farewell on Friday March 26, the […]
AFRICAN club championship fixtures this weekend (first-leg score in brackets): Champions League: Preliminary round, second leg Kaloum, Guinea v Real Banjul, Gambia (2-0) First round, second leg Al-Ahly, Egypt v Maji Maji, Tanzania (3-0); AFC Leopards, Kenya v Rayon Sport, Rwanda (1-2); Raja Casablanca, Morocco v Ndiambour, Senegal (0-1); Cotonsport Garoua, Cameroon v Djoliba, Mali […]
With most of the productions developed by community theatre groups, the FNB Vita Drama Festival is at the right place – the Windybrow Centre for the Arts, writes Bafana Khumalo The house is perched on a hill – a hill that a group of joggers use as a kind of masochistic obstacle course, running backwards […]
It was obvious, from the early stages of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, that it had no hope of uncovering the “whole truth” of the apartheid era. The best that could be expected was some kind of broadly representative truth. But this week’s release of the criminal indictment against Wouter Basson reminds us that there […]