Anglo American and its associated companies are facing a $3-billion lawsuit in the United States after allegations that it “interfered” in a tender already awarded to another mining company in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s fabulously rich copper belt. On Wednesday, the Arkansas-based junior mining company America Mineral Fields (AMF) filed the damages suit against […]
The Market’s new play is set in the Big Top, without words — just the sound of a violin. Janet Smith spoke to star Sue Pam- Grant When you’re a kid, you don’t notice the inevitable mud that accompanies a circus because some soft adult is lugging you through the brown slush towards the glitter […]
When Evelyn Groenink set out to investigate the murder of Dulcie September, she found herself embroiled in a Kafkaesque world full of French secret service plots and fake publications In March 1990, while investigating Dulcie September’s workplace for the period just prior to her murder, I discovered something odd. The small company across the hallway […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: WORLDWIDE demand for gold rose 16% last year as falling prices led to a higher demand for gold in jewellery, electronics and coin production. Total demand rose to 4 025 tons from the 1996 figure of 3 477 tons. The rise, however, was offset by record sales of above-ground gold by central banks, […]
FRIDAY, 4.30PM: SRI Lankan spinning pair Muttiah Murilitharan and Jayanatha Silva on Friday ripped apart the Zimbabwe batting in the first Test, keeping the visitors to a paltry 140 runs. This leaves the Zimbabweans with a deficit total of 329 runs. The woes of the Zimbabweans did not end, however, and at the close of […]
FRIDAY, 4.30PM: THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange ended Friday 1% down amid continuing fears that Asian markets have not yet seen the end of their financial crisis. Dealers said sentiment was bearish, not only in South Africa, but on around the world, as investors are getting to grips with the impact on corporate earnings of the […]
He’s a white Californian with an internationalist musical style. Janet Smith speaks to guitarist Ry Cooder about his Cuban recordings An old man is dressed for the superb Havana afternoon: dazzling white shoes like ice- creams peeking out from his trouser bottoms; shimmering white hat slithered low over his brows. He lifts his hand to […]
Marion Edmunds The government is considering taking disciplinary action against an Eastern Cape public health specialist who last year suspended the use of a cheap Korean hepatitis B vaccine in 14 East London clinics because he doubted its efficacy. The head of the department of public health at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital, Dr Costa Gazi, said […]
Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer After the carefully selected, diplomatically correct words of Clive Barker, new Bafana Bafana coach Jomo Sono has hit the scene like a bolt of lightning from the blue. Sono resembles those gunslingers we worshipped as children at the bioscope. He walks with the same self-belief and is ready to let rip […]
Everyone involved in educating this country’s children, from Minister of Education Sibusiso Bengu to the most junior teacher, should be forced to sit an exam this week, a test containing a single question: define the word responsibility. If they can define it, they might wantto consider how the word applies tothemselves. For these people together […]