Lizeka Mda: CITY LIMITS Six o’clock in the evening and there is no parking space left in the Old Edwardian Sports Club in Lower Houghton. Cars overflow outside the club’s gates on to Fourth Street, all the way to 11th Avenue. These are the premises of the Old Edwardian Society, prime real estate in this […]
Sharon Hammond Unknown to the rich and idle in Nelspruit’s version of Sandton, farm workers have established a small village and self-sustaining chicken farm in their midst, as part of a unique land project. Four workers at Hoogland Estates, which borders the upmarket suburb of Steiltes, have qualified for a share-equity scheme on the farm, […]
FRIDAY, 1.00PM HEADLINE share earnings for Liberty Life rose 20% in 1997 to R12,15, helped by a new, internationally standardised accounting system. The dividend rose 33% to 425c, including a 40th birthday 40c share bonus. Earnings attributable to Liberty Life shareholders rose to R1,18-billion, new business rose 32,6% to R3,08-billion, and total assets increased from […]
The community of a mine was the environment for one of the SABC’s most memorable dramas ever, but it’s unlikely The Villagers will provide any reference point – bar its common setting – for the SABC3’s new homegrown, four-day weekly soap. The as-yet unnamed serial, which is pinned for the 6.30pm slot Mondays to Thursdays, […]
Chris Opperman Former foreign affairs minister Pik Botha and several senior retired Armscor officials will be among the key witnesses in a sensational case due to resume in a Paris court later this year. It is expected to expose details about South Africa’s top-secret international weapons transactions during the days of the arms embargo. A […]
Charlene Smith Political change is destroying Soweto shebeens, says shebeen king Godfrey Moloi and most tavern owners agree. When business was booming, from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, Moloi (63) was one of the wealthiest men in Soweto, with gold jewellery and big houses. He would screen guests who came to his shebeens or […]
WHO ARE . . . JOEL NETSHITENZHE AND YACOOB ABBA OMAR? Ferial Haffajee It’s appropriate that the modest Joel Netshitenzhe is reading Primary Colours. The novel about an obscure southern governor and his election trail to the White House is a testament to spin doctors – the powerful back-room advisers whose job it is to […]
In a world of restless and edgy markets, Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel managed to project a reassuring image of amiable calm during the delivery of his budget speech that shows, at the very least, that he has become a consummate salesman. Despite the innate conservatism of the budget, the gradual swing towards more investment […]
Jack Schofield ‘Think of us as a networking company,” says Intel’s executive vice- president, Frank Gill. Intel is already the world’s largest chip manufacturer: its Pentium processors have about 80% of the desktop computer market, and a growing share of the market for the servers used to run corporate applications. Now it wants to provide […]
Belinda Beresford If you’re one of those people who finds it irritating listening to the ubiquitous ringing of telephones over dinner, on the golf course or – most odious of all – at the movies, you’ll find it hard to resist cheering at the news that cellphone imports are to be hit with customs duties. […]