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/ 28 November 1997
Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer The first final of the richest domestic club competition in African soccer demands worthy participants, and Kaizer Chiefs and Sundowns certainly fit the bill for the Rothmans Cup climax at FNB Stadium on Saturday. Sundowns lead the national championship by one point from Bush Bucks as the halfway mark approaches and […]
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/ 28 November 1997
processors Steve Shipside It’s a depressingly familiar scenario. Your film comes back with 10 underdeveloped pictures, 10 overdeveloped, three shots of your thumb, and four cases of red-eye that make close family members look like Zoltan, Hound of Dracula. Precisely that disappointment is driving the digital photography market, says Steve Hoffenberg, director of the Digital […]
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/ 28 November 1997
Intel maintains its dominance of the microchip market by suing companies that compete with it. Tim Jackson tells the story of one of these battles In the mid-1980s, George Hwang decided to start a new business combining his own expertise in process technology and manufacturing with the talents of Bob Woo, a friend with an […]
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/ 28 November 1997
office Chris McGreal in Kinshasa Beyond the grave, and from his own bedroom, Mobutu Sese Seko is being pursued. Investigators, tracking down billions of rands of cash and property that were plundered by the late Zairean ruler and his cronies, have installed themselves in one of their early finds – a house Mobutu gave to […]
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/ 28 November 1997
Company Market capitalisation (R) African Harvest 1 848 000 000 African Life Assurance 3 867 469 814 Botswana Rst 4 494 820 Capital Alliance Holdings 3 284 101 143 Carson Holdings 1 187 700 749 FBC Holdings 477 048 343 Hosken Consolidated Investments 1 177 066 683 JCI 2 523 065 577 Johnnies Industrial Corp […]
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/ 28 November 1997
FRIDAY, 2.20PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S last wickets fell quickly on Friday afternoon, taking the team to 468 all out, with Pat Symcox reaching 54. Western Australia have started off strongly, with 117 for 1 wicket at close of play on the second day. FRIDAY, 9.35AM: South Africa cruised to 440/7 at lunch on the second day […]
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/ 28 November 1997
Andy Duffy The president’s office is paving the way for Nelson Mandela to break his promise to South Africa that no teachers would be kicked out of their jobs. Department of Education officials and teaching unions both view the president’s promise, made last year, as binding and a key political obstacle to dismissing state teachers. […]
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/ 28 November 1997
Karlin Lillington asks why we should read a book from cover to cover when it’s possible to dip in and out Now read on – or back, or sideways, or anywhere. Welcome to the world of hypertext fiction, the latest genre to win critical acclaim. “There is no simple way to say this.” The opening […]
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/ 28 November 1997
FRIDAY, 5.00PM: The key M3 money supply for October has suddenly jumped by R5 667-million rand to R364 457-million — from R358 790-million in September, a far worse figure than expected. But economists warn against taking a single month’s figure as proof of a trend. According to figures released by the Reserve Bank on Friday, […]
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/ 28 November 1997
Mail & Guardian reporters The beginning of November was D-day for radio stations: one in five songs or 20% of their music must now be a home-brew. Although a number of radio stations are below that quota, only one has applied to the Independent Broadcasting Authority for a broadcasting exemption. Highveld Stereo’s station manager Malcolm […]