Thabo Mbeki’s task team is fine-tuning a strategy to tackle its brief on government communications, writes Jacquie Golding-Duffy THE 10-member media task group appointed late last year by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki plans to take trips abroad in a bid to conduct in loco inspections of foreign government communication departments. Task group convener Mandla Langa […]
Archery isn’t a big sport in South Africa, but members of the Olympic team are out to show that they can shoot with the best in Atlanta ARCHERY: Julian Drew COUNTRIES like Korea and Japan count their competitive archers in the tens of thousands and most of them compete in the recurve (Olympic) bow category. […]
Simon Segal A repeat performance two years later, and still the markets and critics did not learn. The sky did not fall in when Derek Keys resigned as finance minister in October 1994. The equally sudden resignation of Keys’ successor from the private sector, Chris Liebenberg, again caused an over-reaction, especially from those traders who […]
Young and restless — or just dazed and confused? HAZEL FRIEDMAN reports on an exhibition by a group of Johannesburg conceptual artists IT was one of those rare, ironic intersections between art and life which reveal the gulf between them. At the opening of The Young and the Restless Without Permission, at the Sandton Art […]
Trevor Manuel, new minister of finance, in The Mark Gevisser Profile ASK any Western Cape activist the secret of Trevor Manuel’s success and you’ll be told, ”Hy’t gejob innie area.” He’s a homeboy; he worked his own ‘hood. In the worlds of Davos and Brussels, he might be the smoothest South African product to have […]
Rehana Rossouw The attorney general of the Cape of Good Hope is considering taking action against a former American dentist, now resident in South Africa, for tax evasion, it emerged in the Cape Supreme Court this week. Dr Robert Hall, who is suing The Argus and the monthly investigative news magazine noseWEEK for a total […]
Ann Eveleth Inkatha Freedom Party Izingolweni chairman Sipho Ngcobo is under investigation in connection with allegations that a firearm he allegedly reported stolen in June last year was linked to two prior murder cases. The Mail & Guardian has established Ngcobo is the man referred to by the special investigation team probing a spate of […]
lively in Rome TENNIS: Jon Swift THERE is, provided you are not a tennis player, something remarkably special about Rome. The city lives. This vibrancy in the very air you breathe in the Italian capital is in sharp contrast to the stadium where the nation plays its tennis. The Foro Italico is as dead as […]
Pieter-Dirk Uys, South Africa’s most playful political commentator, digs into the truth commission in an effort to define what is true and what is just another aspect of reality THROUGHOUT our lives, I bet you, we’ve all at one time or another sweated before a truth commission. As small children, in front of the giggling […]
The Kenyans dominated the world cross country championships once again, but the organisers were the real winners ATHLETICS: Julian Drew SOUTH AFRICA’S aspirations to host the world’s top sporting events received a significant boost after last Saturday’s world cross country championships in Stellenbosch which many experienced observers considered the best they had ever attended. The […]