SARAH BULLEN in Johannesburg | Friday 6.00pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange rallied on Friday to end a turbulent week in positive territory, taking its cue from Hong Kong’s remarkable rebound to push all indices higher. The day’s spike after the badly battered 33-stock Hang Seng Index regained much of the ground lost this week to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 12.30PM. DEREK CROOKES and Martin van Jaarsveld were the heroes in South Africa A’s seven wicket win over Sri Lanka A in an unofficial limited-overs match played in Moratuwa on Saturday. The win gives South Africa the series with one more match to play. Crookes scored 60 runs in the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Sunday 7.00PM. MASHONALAND West governor Peter Chanetsa at the weekend evicted nearly 900 families from surrounding resettlement schemes who had invaded nine commercial farms in the region, to the west of the Zambabwean capital Harare. Chanetsa said government will not tolerate lawlessness and land-hungry people will be settled following planned procedures, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kinshasa | Sunday 6.30PM. AS European governments flew military aircaft to Kinshasa to evacuate their nationals, a South African Air Force Boeing 707 arrived at Waterkloof air base near Pretoria on Sunday morning carrying more than 100 people, three dogs and a cat from the capital of the embattled Democratic Republic of Congo. […]
movies Philip French Stephen King’s movie career got off to a strong start in 1976 when his first novel, Carrie, provided Brian de Palma with his first hit and brought Sissy Spacek an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a gawky teenager who uses her telekinetic powers to revenge herself on schoolmates and neighbours. Blood […]
Stuart Hess Three employees of the Independent Development Trust (IDT) brokered more than R200 000 worth of business deals for their own company while in the employ of the organisation. This emerged in a Cape High Court application by Bonile Jack, Agnes Nyamande-Pitso and Baby Mogane- Ramahotswa, who are suing the IDT for more than […]
wealth Angella Johnson VIEW FROM A BROAD Is there a group of people more irritating, self-righteous and unnaturally enthusiastic than a bunch of sales folk trying to punt their wares? Well, imagine being trapped in a hall heaving with them. Not a great way to spend a Sunday, but who can ignore the lure of […]
oppression? There are people who would have us believe that our computers could destroy the planet – not by taking control of the nuclear arsenals or enslaving humanity, but by sapping our resources and literally polluting us to death. They may be right. I came across some shocking estimates in a bulletin produced by a […]
Tim Radford reports on problems in bringing Mir down to Earth The troubled Mir spacecraft could land on populated areas when it ends its 13-year endurance trial in orbit, say British scientists. Russian scientists plan to nudge the elderly space hotel and laboratory into the atmosphere and lose it in the Pacific Ocean at the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 9.45PM. SOUTH Africa A have won the first match of their unofficial limited-overs series against Sri Lanka A at the Uyanwatte Stadium. Man of the match, Derek Crookes scored 95 not out and was involved in several important partnerships as South Africa A scored 209/5 in reply to Sri Lanka’s […]