MONDAY, 4.00PM KENYAN President Daniel arap Moi on Monday dissolved the country’s seventh parliament Monday in preparation for general elections expected later this year. A statement issued by Moi’s office at State House in Nairobi said the parliament and all other elected bodies have been dissolved. No date has yet been set for the elections. […]

MONDAY, 11.00AM: LEADING credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s visited SA last week as part of a review process that could see SA’s international credit rating being upgraded. The agency has refused to comment on the visit, which was confirmed by the finance department. S&P has given SA a credit rating one notch below the […]

MONDAY, 12.30PM: KAIZER Chiefs dropped two valuable points as they played to a 1-1 draw with Supersport United in a Premiership match at Rand Stadium on Sunday. United’s Chicco Lawrence opened the score in the 12th minute after a Thomas Madigage cross. Thembinkosi Biyela equalised for Amakhosi after receiving a pass from Mark Williams in […]

Charl Blignaut A decade ago, when South African pay channel M-Net was launched, the company had already attracted its fair share of critics. There were those who complained that the Hollywood-crazy, sport-obsessed, money-making television service was not really interested in an African broadcasting agenda and was not intending to invest in much local television production. […]

A powerful lobby is fighting for free commercial speech, writes Hazel Friedman Graham Langmead is an unashamed fag hater. But if there is one thing he hates more than fags it is any attempt to ban advertising them. And while he believes breast is best, he virulently opposes restrictions on advertising substitutes. Just in case […]

After three years of controversial transformation at the SABC, we ask what it is getting right. Ferial Haffajee reports The SABC sealed its transformation this week with the adoption of a new logo. The logo symbolises a broadcaster in tune with the dictates of the market. The new broadcasting barons now have their eyes on […]

In an effort to protect its election chances, the ANC chose to shield warlord Sifiso Nkabinde despite his reign of terror in Richmond, write Sechaba ka’Nkosi and Wonder Hlongwa The African National Congress was warned five years ago that KwaZulu-Natal warlord Sifiso Nkabinde was an apartheid spy – but chose to shield him to avoid […]

The African National Congress’s demand in response to the findings of the Dreyer Commission of Inquiry into the Mpumulanga housing scandal that those who tried to “drag” Minister of Housing Sankie Mthembi- Mahanyele into the scandal should apologise is laughable. The commission, as the ANC well knows, was precluded from probing into the minister’s role […]

On the eve of the investors’ conference, Paul Jourdan puts the case for the government’s development initiatives Spatial development initiatives (SDIs) are a proven means of giving government more job-creating bang for its very limited bucks. It is too important and successful a strategy to be derailed by vested interests and narrow agendas. The furore […]

Marion Edmunds The parliamentary session ended in acrimony this week as opposition parties rallied around Pan Africanist Congress firebrand Patricia de Lille. She has become embroiled in a fight with the party after accusing some of its top officials of spying for the apartheid government. The National Party’s Jacko Maree yesterday walked out of the […]