MONDAY, 12.00PM: A DEVELOPMENT fund for Southern Africa has been mooted by officials of the Southern African Development Community. The proposal was made during a recent meeting of SADC’s finance and investment sector, which is led by South Africa’s Finance Department. There is a strong possibility that the World Bank will contribute to the proposed […]
MONDAY, 12.30PM: FIVE consortiums have submitted binding bids for 100% of Aventura Resorts, the state-owned resorts company. The bidders are Kopano ke Matla (the investment trust of the Congress of South African Trade Unions), Phalafala Leisure Consortium, Sanco Consortium, Boiketlong Consortium and Shomang Investment Holdings. The winner is expected to be announced soon after April […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM: THE National Sports Council on Saturday gave the controversial South African Rugby Football Union’s executive an ultimatum to resign within a fortnight or lose the Springbok badge and face international sports sanctions. NSC president Mluleki George, himself a rugby official, called on the Sarfu executive, including controversial rugby boss Louis Luyt, to resign […]
MONDAY, 12.00NOON: UNITED States President Bill Clinton has called for more private investment in Africa and will ask the US Congress to raise development assistance to historically high levels, he said before leaving Johannesburg for Botswana on Sunday. He also promised to ask for $1,6-billion in debt relief for Africa from the US Congress and […]
MONDAY, 5.00PM: MPUMALANGA Premier Matthews Phosa on Sunday said that many of Mozambique’s ecomomic troubles are the direct result of the former South African government’s destabilisation policies, and that South Africa has a moral obligation to compensate Mozambique for the gap between the two countries’ economies. African Eye News Service reports that Phosa stressed, however, […]
MONDAY, 12.30PM: THE Springbok sevens rugby squad reached the final four of the Hong Kong Sevens tournament, but lost heavily to Western Samoa on trying to reach the finals. The Boks were trampled 45-7 in a one-sided game, which the strong and mobile Islanders dominated from the start. The South Africans reached the semi-finals after […]
IN BRIEF 21 DIE IN SOMALI FIGHTING AT least least 21 people were killed and 29 injured when heavy fighting broke out between clans in the southern Somali port town of Kismayo on Monday. The fighting is reported to have died down, but the town, 500km south of the capital Mogadishu, remains tense. The renewed […]
Who is James Bond, the gunman in a tux? And why do we love him so? As the latest Bond movie opens in South Africa, Peter Conrad considers a 20th-century icon The image is contradictory. A man in a tuxedo tilts a gun; his arrogant smirk indicates that he is ready to use it. But […]
Ken Barris A BLESSING ON THE MOON by Joseph Skibell (Abacus, R99,99) A Blessing on the Moon is Joseph Skibell’s account of his own grandfather’s death in the Holocaust: the novel starts with Chaim Skibelski being shot, together with 3 000 fellow Jews, outside a small Polish town. Although dead, Skibelski is unable to enter […]
Brenda AtkinsonOn show in Johannesburg If the word “sculpture” makes you think of bronze, discreet formal objects and Platonic Ideals, and if the words “British sculpture” send you scrambling for your Jeff Koons catalogue, take a deep breath, lock your car doors, and head off to the Johannesburg Art Gallery. A Changed World – an […]