Mungo Soggot A respected arms expert, who was finance director for a South African company implicated in a massive weapons smuggling case in the United States, has been picked to run Armscor. Llewellyn Swan, who started as managing director of the weapons procurement company last week, has worked in the local arms industry for 22 […]
Use investment as a tool to manage your money instead of letting it manage you, writes Donna Block The market is cruel. It gives with no joy and takes with no mercy. If anyone’s forgotten this, the events of the past few weeks should serve as a reminder. Stock markets have been tumbling worldwide and […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 6.00PM. ZIMBABWE has increased the number of its troops backing the Democratic Republic of Congo army against rebels from 600 to 2800 in the past few days, which have seen an escalation in fighting, the Zimbabwe Independent reported on Friday. “Initially, we had underestimated the number of foreign troops in […]
The government’s economic policy will not be debated at the forthcoming jobs summit, writes Howard Barrell The government has beaten off the threat of a direct public challenge to its economic policy at the presidential jobs summit now due to take place before the end of October. This is another setback for embattled leftwingers in […]
Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week The Coen brothers – Joel and Ethan – made their first movie efforts on 8mm while they were kids, doing remakes of famous Hollywood movies they had seen. Eventually they did a pilot for a noir comedy-thriller, Blood Simple, and managed to gather enough money to film 30 minutes […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer Premier Soccer League chief executive officer Trevor Phillips has tried and failed to reduce the size of the 18- club Castle Premiership, the richest national championship in Africa. This week, his South African Football Association counterpart, Danny Jordaan, tackled the same problem from a different angle, proposing that his organisation buy two […]
front David Hirst Last month an “important announcement” appeared on a website, , “in the name of God the merciful, the compassionate”. It consisted of a brief interview which the journal al- Murabitoun – mouthpiece of al-Gama’a al-Islamiya, Egypt’s largest underground organisation – had with one of the group’s exiled leaders, Sheikh Abu Yasser Rifai […]
MONSTER MACHINES by Caroline Bingham (Dorling Kindersley) This book describes 12 different types of the “biggest, heaviest, chunkiest machines on the move”. These include a Boeing 747, a giant mining shovel with a mass of 240 tonnes and an enormous mobile crane with 18 wheels. The text is very simple and quite devoid of technical […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dakar | Friday 11.00am. SOUTH African hammer thrower Chris Harmse, who is the African record holder in the event, won the gold medal at the African Athletics Championships in Dakar, Senegal ,with a throw of 72,11m on Thursday night. Nigerian competitors dominated on Thursday, with Clement Chukwu and Falilat Ogunkoya doing a double […]
Angella Johnson VIEW FROM A BROAD It was a bitterly cold night. The kind where a chill seeps into the marrow of your bones and you think your body will never be warm again. Sitting in his car, Tiny Nortje let out a lengthy sigh; he had forgotten to wear a jumper for his vigil. […]