Simon Segal THE great seven-year haggling game between divergent interest groups around the establishment of a regulated bond market appears at last to be moving towards a resolution. Last week the Bond Market Association (BMA) submitted its application to the Financial Services Board (FSB) to be licensed as South Africa’s bond market exchange. The FSB […]
Visiting jazz pianist Keith Tippett explores three decades of South African connections in conversation with GWEN ANSELL ‘SERIOUS musicians have to make a choice,” says visiting UK jazz pianist Keith Tippett. “Are they going to be curators or creators?” The question is typical of the man, whose own three-decade career has spanned jazz, jazz- rock, […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift IT IS not overstating things to say that we all live in an unequal world. This is true at the top of the rugby pile where George Orwell’s contention that some are more equal than others freely applies. Certainly this is the type of thinking that prevails in England’s top rugby circles […]
oldies Some of South Africa’s triumphant team of African Nations Cup champions have been described as too old, and now they must take on a young team of magicians from Brazil SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi BRAZIL are the benchmark by which national football teams are judged and at the FNB stadium on Wednesday evening it will […]
Rehana Rossouw ONE of Cape Town’s most notorious gang leaders, Rashied Staggie, was caught red- handed breaking into a Woodstock home last year. Last week, he walked free out of court after the charges against him were dropped. The police investigating officer could not produce the three witnesses lined up to give evidence against Staggie, […]
The green jacket that comes with winning the Masters at Augusta is the most sought-after prize for golfers GOLF: Jon Swift THERE is surely no professional golf tournament which concentrates the mind of the world’s top players more than the Masters at Augusta National. There is little time to stop and smell the azaleas along […]
The future role of the Land Bank is fraught with conflict and vested interests, reports Aspasia Karras AS South African institutions face transformation under the Government of National Unity, the Land and Agricultural Bank has been singled out for major reform. Established in 1912 to ensure preferential loans and subsidised protection to white farmers, the […]
Jacquie Golding-Duffy The conventional belief among commercial radio stations that education programmes lose rather than gain listeners has been challenged by the popularity of educational programmes on community radio stations. Siven Maslamoney, director of Ulwazi educational radio project, a non-profit, pilot educational radio project for adults, says it is “encouraging to see that the commitment […]
Nelson Mandela asked Washington for help in rescuing South African journalist Phillip van Niekerk from Liberia after he was trapped in the fighting this week. When the guns began firing in down-town Monrovia, Van Niekerk, the Southern African correspondent for the M&G’s sister newspaper The Observer, was the only foreign newsman left in Liberia. South […]
Ann Eveleth The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal is bringing a Constitutional Court action aimed at settling the question at the heart of the region’s political conflict: how much power should traditional leaders hold? The ANC is challenging the Inkatha Freedom Party-led provincial government’s interpretation of a constitutional clause guaranteeing traditional leaders ex-officio representation in […]