MIH, subsidiary of the South African company MIH Holdings (MIHH), is to be listed on the United States’s Nasdaq bourse in New York and the Amsterdam Stock Exchange in mid-April. This will give it access to international capital markets and will be the first time a subsidiary of a listed South African company will list […]

Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week `Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.” So said award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard who, together with Marc Norman, penned the faultless script for Shakespeare in Love. If they don’t get an Oscar nod for […]

ANGLO American Platinum Corporation disclosed on Thursday that its new R1,2-billion Bafokeng Rasimone platinum mine, 10km from Sun City, will be brought into full production 21 months ahead of schedule in April next year. By that time the mine will be milling 200000 tons of ore a month. Business manager George Viljoen said the new […]

EGYPTIAN actress Yusra has been acquitted of outraging public morals over a risque photograph published on the cover of a cinema magazine four years ago, court officials said on Friday.Yusra was convicted after two Islamist lawyers complained that she appeared “nearly nude” in the November 1995 cover photograph of Al-Cinema wal-Nass.Defence lawyers argued that the […]

There’s trouble ahead for South Africa’s banks as they try to pursue First World banking in a developing economy. Donna Block reports South African bankers have turned the simple act of squirming into an art. Perhaps it’s all the practice they’ve been getting. They squirmed when United States Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin took them to […]

PUBLIC Enterprises Minister Stella Sigcau told Parliament on Wednesday that long-struggling South African Airways is finally back in the black. Speaking during her department’s Budget vote, Sigcau said that SAA reflects a R8,4-million profit from October to December last year and has made R40-million this year.

One of South Africa’s most under-resourced hospitals has been named as the research base of a new Aids drug. David Shapshak, Evidence wa ka Ngobeni and Aaron Nicodemus report Ga-Rankuwa is an unlikely place for an Aids breakthrough. The dusty, dishevelled hospital outside Pretoria has been almost abandoned by the health system, leaving it critically […]

Neil Manthorp in Christchurch Cricket `It couldn’t have happened at a better time in my career. I grew up more in that week than I did in the rest of my life put together. If I hadn’t and I’d been the same person I was before then, I would never have survived, I just wouldn’t […]

`We are trapped in a wilderness of mirrors,” James Jesus Angleton, the former head of counter- intelligence for the CIA, is quoted as having once said. Angleton was referring, of course, to the impossibility of finding one’s bearings in a professional world dedicated to bluff and counter-bluff, where nothing is what it appears to be. […]

aRonald Bergen on the life and films of Stanley Kubrick, the enigmatic and reclusive director who died recently aged 70 Over his 40-year career, the director Stanley Kubrick made only 13 feature films, yet the scrupulous care with which he chose his subjects, his extremely slow method of working, the years of planning, the secrecy, […]