OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 5.00pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange ended its four-day bull run on Thursday, dropping around 2,5% on profit taking, with sentiment suffering as extreme volatility infects Asian markets and European exchanges take big hits. The Dow Jones opened on a downward streak in the afternoon, rattled by recessionary fears and a […]
airwaves Ferial Haffajee Allister Sparks is an unlikely Ted Turner. Other than the grey hair, the local journalist has until now had little in common with the American media magnate. Now Sparks is the driving force behind SABC-Africa, a 24-hour news channel going head-to-head with Turner’s CNN for supremacy of the African airwaves at least. […]
The makers of South Africa’s foreign policy need a long, hard think, suggests William Boot The king of Lesotho is seldom permitted to make public utterances. But sometimes his private observations are passed on by friends and advisers – like what he said when he returned from the recent Southern African Development Community (SADC)summit in […]
These days, the Market Theatre management claims, people book tickets because they want to and not out of some obligation to the place that, once upon a time, changed South African culture. If you pop into the theatre now you’ll find a video monitor fixed to one of those pillars laden with brass plaques. The […]
The battle for Kindu is crucial to the course of the Congo war, writes Ann Eveleth and Howard Barrell This week’s battle for the mid-eastern town of Kindu in the Democratic Republic of Congo marks a turning point for the two-month-old civil war. A victory for the rebels would open the way for them to […]
Andrew Worsdale picks the best out of an exciting line-up for the Spanish film festival The Spanish ambassador to South Africa, Miguel Angel Carriedo, is a devoted film fan. A few years ago he even became part of a consortium that invested in movies and, sadly, like many others, lost money. He did enjoy a […]
Is it time to junk your video cassette recorder or CD player now that there is the new digital video disc? Jack Schofield advises caution It’s the next big thing since the last big thing, which might have been Sony’s MiniDisk or Philips’s digital compact cassette or DAT audio tape, or CD- interactive (CDi) or […]
Robert Kirby: Loose cannon Reading last Monday’s editorial in the Cape Times, I felt a cloak of nostalgia envelop me. At the best of times a second-hand emotion, nostalgia does, however, have its uses. On this occasion it took me all the way back to 1966 and to a brief appointment I had with broadcasting […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, New York | Friday 9.00pm. THE United Nations said on Friday that an ”immediate re-adjustment” of the its observer mission in Angola will start in early December if all hopes for peace have collapsed by then. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said the 1,100-strong UN force would pull back to six main regional […]
Wonder Hlongwa Residents of the township of Mpuma- langa in KwaZulu-Natal are living in fear of an alleged serial killer who they believe is being protected by the authorities because he is a police informer. Sbusiso ”Sbra” Makhaye (22), who has been implicated in nine murders in the past four years, was mysteriously released from […]