Maurice Hamilton: Motor racing: If JacquesVilleneuve and Michael Schumacher pick up where they left off at the end of last year, they are in danger of fighting for the crumbs rather than the biggest slice of championship cake when the season opens in Melbourne on Sunday. Schumacher’s questionable habit of crashing into his opponent as […]
Craig Bishop A two-year-old agreement with Danish funders to fund community radio projects jointly has finally been honoured by the South African government. Dr Pallo Jordan, the former minister responsible for broadcasting, agreed in 1995 to match a two-year Danish contribution of over R3-million to develop community radio through an independent fund. The agreement stressed […]
A craze for shark-cage diving has its dangers … for sharks, writes Ellen Bartlett The bartender from Miami is standing tall on the port side of the boat, face to the wind, eyes in a happy squint in the glare of the morning sun. “There’s bungee jumping, there’s jumping out of an airplane and there’s […]
stand Jansie Kotze and Jonathan Ancer The volk were armed with cellphones. And the leader was reduced to flogging off two bottles of mampoer dressed in a vierkleur, in his last-ditch bid to stay out of jail. It was all a long way from the Battle of Majuba. Or, for that matter, the heady days […]
Investing in listed companies with interests in the gaming sector may be a dangerous gamble, but some are bound to hit the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) jackpot. Legislation passed a year ago legalised casino gaming in South Africa for the first time, setting in place a race between local and international gaming companies for the […]
FRIDAY, 6.15PM: TRADING in the shares of Rand Merchant Bank, Southern Life Association, First National Bank Holdings and Momentum Life Holdings was suspended by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Friday at the request of the comapnies’ boards. The suspension came as discussions of a merger between Anglo American and RMB’s financial interests progressed. The various […]
Mukoni T Ratshitanga More than 200 striking farm workers, including 26 mothers and their babies, were arrested in the Northern Province for allegedly violated a high court ruling preventing them from intimidating colleagues. Their lawyer, Phillip Sebola, said the workers included three pregnant women, five of their visitors and 33 parents who had left children […]
Iden Wetherell Ignoring government threats of dire consequences, Zimbabwe’s workers this week stayed at home in response to calls for a peaceful protest against tax increases from trade union leaders who have proved once again that they represent a powerful challenge to President Robert Mugabe’s arthritic regime. The capital Harare and other major centres were […]
Andrew Worsdale: Movie of the week If Barry Levinson had got hold of the script for Good Will Hunting he would have turned it into another Rain Man – mawkish, sentimental and filled with the kind of Hollywood gloss that makes a potentially touching story just seem unreal. So it’s a credit to producer Lawrence […]
A bright new agency says the advertising industry is still on the old path, writes Ferial Haffajee ‘Hi, I’m calling from MDS.DD&M.” Say what? In an industry where acronyms abound, this one can get you more tongue-tied than most. The somewhat unwieldy name masks a new advertising agency with a very clear agenda. It wants […]