MONDAY, 2.00PM: SPORTS Minister Steve Tshwete said on Sunday that the constitutional “impasse” caused on Thursday when National Council of Provinces Chairman Patrick “Terror” Lekota refused to allow Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s Adjustments Appropiation Bill to be debated after 10 Cabinet ministers failed to attend the sitting, was “resolved” after hours of top-level government deliberations […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH African Elana Meyer broke her own world 21,1km best time at the Kyoto City half marathon in Japan on Sunday, exactly a year after beating German Uta Pippig’s time in the same race. Last March the athlete from Stellenbosch ran in a time of 67minutes 36seconds. She bettered that mark by seven […]
FRIDAY, 6.30PM: PAKISTAN’S batting collapsed in their second innings on Monday, leaving them reeling at 120/7. Asked to chase 394 for victory, the tourists were always going to have a hard task but, as in the first innings, their batting could not take the South African attack’s pressure. Allan Donald picked up two wickets, with […]
MONDAY, 6.30PM: ANGOLAN rebel movement Unita on Friday declared the complete demilitarisation of its troops, bringing to an end the tortuous demilitarisation process and finally meeting the key condition in the 1994 United Nations-brokered peace accord. The long-awaited declaration, signed by Unita vice-president Antonio Sebastiao Dembo, that “Unita declares its complete demilitarisation from today, March […]
MONDAY, 12.45PM: AFRICAN Explosives and Chemical Industries (AECI) has reported a 14% drop in full-year earnings, but says it will return to a real earnings growth this year. Group managing director Mike Smith attributed the earnings drop to R187-million lost at the Kynoch fertiliser plant through production difficulties and low nitrogen prices. Most of the […]
Njongonkulu Ndungane: UBUNTU When liberation came to South Africa in 1994, people rejoiced that at last there was freedom. Indeed, in the years just prior to the 1994 elections, we saw a surfeit of freedoms of expression that we had previously only known to exist in democracies like the United States. Not all these were […]
Jack Schofield Plastic television and computer screens could be printed out by the yard using technology from Cambridge University and its development partner Seiko-Epson, a large Japanese manufacturer of computer printers. And because plastic screens can be flexible, TV sets could be hung on the wall and rolled up afterwards. The new screens are based […]
FRIDAY, 6.00PM: SHARES on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange staged a late rally after a dull day on Friday, much to the consternation of dealers who were at a loss to explain the recovery. The all gold index slipped 2,1 points to 742,7. The industrial index rose 69,9 points to 8187,2, and the financial index, 103,3 […]
Belinda Beresford There’s something sensual about the feel of a fat wad of crisp new banknotes. The rippled paper is a small piece of attempted perfection which took a month to forge and contains dozens of security devices. All South African paper money is printed by the South African Bank Note Company (SABN), although the […]
Stepping from the relentless glare of a Johannesburg summer morning into the cool darkness of the Wits Theatre is not unlike entering a secret, parallel universe. One minute you’re dodging a stream of sausage-factory suits hurtling along the pavement to work, the next you’re watching a man in a loincloth sweep his arms over a […]