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.
SOUTH AFRICAN voters remain highly intolerant of their political opponents, according to the latest Markinor/Idasa Opinion ’99 survey. The survey found one in four voters openly admits being ready to take action against political opponents including being prepared to block speeches, rallies and other normal political activity. Up to half of African National Congress supporters […]
Review of the week Peter Makurube Five Guys Named Mo is a first rate musical set in Forties America – a story of love and friendship threaded around the music of jazz great Louis Jordan. The main theatre at The Market is the perfect venue for a show of this magnitude that has thrilled countless […]
`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. […]
The consummate politician didn’t wear socks. Thabo Mbeki’s sockless feet was one of few down-home symbols as the new-look African National Congress leader made one of his first forays on the hustings last weekend. On a sodden Saturday afternoon in Soweto, Mbeki displayed the political colours he will wear on the election trail. Like being […]
WORKERS at Zimbabwe’s Boka Tobacco Auction floor, which belongs to the late tycoon Roger Boka, have reportedly not been paid for two months. Several of the business empire’s bank accounts have also been compulsorily closed. Boka, once seen as the champion of black empowerment in Zimbabwe, died after a long illness last month. Workers are […]
ANDRE MARKGRAAFF has picked two new caps for the Cats team to play the Sharks in a Super 12 rugby match at Ellis Park on Saturday night. Pieter O’Neill from South Western Districts and Riaan van Jaarsveld from Boland will be playing at flyhalf and centre respectively. In another backline change, Jorrie Kruger comes in […]
The introduction of six bull elephants seems to have sorted out the `aberrant behaviour’ of the young males in Pilanesberg, writes Barbara Ludman It was the sort of scene certain to delight visitors lucky enough to come upon it: a young bull elephant and two much younger males browsing peacefully together in the sparse bushveld, […]
Imagine you’re a Parisienne and morning by morning, as you sit on your balcony sipping cappuccino, you notice that the Eiffel Tower is slowly getting shorter. One morning you almost swallow your croissant whole when you discover that it’s no longer there. It’s been dismantled and no longer exists. The city’s signature has become memory. […]
FRANCE said on Thursday it expects Libyan leaders to uphold the life sentences handed down here against six Libyan agents for the 1989 mid-air bombing of a French UTA airliner that killed 170 people. “Libya has to uphold the verdict in line with pledges it made, notably in a letter by Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi […]