A striking aspect of debate on matters of public interest in South Africa nowadays is the racial sub- text. Developers produce a scheme for the transformation of Johannesburg’s Zoo Lake. The issues are environmental. The sub-text is black business empowerment. Eugene Nyati is accused of creaming off public funds. The issue is financial accountability. Nyati […]

Neil Bierbaum AN independent advertising “sales house” has been launched to facilitate the buying of advertising airtime on television in the new multichannel Oracle Airtime Sales Limited (Oracle) will represent those channels in the MultiChoice bouquet available off PanAmSat4 (Pas4) which will take advertising. It is not yet clear which channels will take advertising, although […]

Meshack Mabogoane When the African Bank went through its first major scam involving forex irregularities in 1988, the Reserve Bank seconded Jack Theron, an experienced banker from Trust Bank, to take over from then-chief executive Moses Maubane. Theron’s brief was to salvage the mess, then hand the reigns back to a black chief executive. Ironically […]

Rehana Rossouw DISTRICT SIX could be the first case to be heard by the Land Claims Court, but the issue it will address — hotly disputed by some former residents — is whether to block individual restitution claims in parts of the The area is internationally regarded as a symbol of the Group Areas Act […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift IT WAS, as Ali Bacher commented before the announcement of the squad for the short tour of Zimbabwe next month, “an interesting side”. It was made even more intriguing by the rationale offered by convenor of selectors Peter The squad which will travel north between October 10-23 is, Pollock maintains, “an experiment […]

After a year away from the game, Jeff Butler has returned to coach Kaizer Chiefs SOCCER: Lungile Madywabe WITH eight weeks to go before the end of the season, the deadline for the registration of players in NSL teams has come and gone. Kaizer Chiefs were reported to be interested in the services of Ernest […]

Despite being at the end of a hard season, Maria Mutola will be going for a record at the opening of the new athletics stadium in Johannesburg ATHLETICS: Julian Drew WHILE most of the athletes attending the two-day meeting to inaugurate Johannesburg’s new R97-million athletics stadium this weekend are at the tail- end of a […]

The diamond-rich Lundas are the last battlefield in Angola’s civil war. Philip van Niekerk reports on a deal that is brokered to share the diamonds among the warring parties AFTER sundown the town of Saurimo in northern Angola is alive with gunfire — the rattle of AK47s and pistol shots. A nonchalant United Nations peacekeeper […]

Foreign investors want growth, not deregulation, argues ANC MP Rob Davies THE announcement of the appointment of a Cabinet “super-committee” to co-ordinate government strategy to promote economic growth has provoked a good deal of media comment. Some have seen the establishment of this committee as an implicit acknowledgment by the Government of National Unity of […]