Coach Bob Woolmer is full of innovative ideas that will=20 have the old guard choking on their gin and tonics CRICKET: Ahitisham Manerjee PIONEERS in sport come in many guises. Occasionally=20 they are even unaware that they are breaking new=20 ground. The South African under-24 cricket squad,=20 having just completed a highly successful month-long=20 tour […]

The Independent Broadcasting Authority report released this week is an important step towards a healthy and open broadcasting system. The juggernaut SABC is to be reduced to a manageable size to allow space for other broadcasters. Local content regulations will stimulate the television production and music industries without being unachievable. Cross-media ownership limitations should help […]

The only possible threat South African banks face is=20 foreign competition.=20 Reg Rumney reports Foreign competition is the biggest threat to the=20 margins of the banking industry — but foreign banks=20 are unlikely to want to upset the domestic applecart. Alan McConnochie of broker Ed Hern Rudolph, writing in=20 accountancy firm KPMG’s 1995 Banking Survey, […]

This week’s SADC summit saw quibbling among the region’s leaders, but a few strides were made nevertheless, reports Stefaans Brummer WHEN the Southern African Development Community heads of state and government postponed their lunch at Johannesburg’s World Trade Centre on Monday, observers suspected there was serious quibbling in the air. Two closed sessions of an […]

ANC MP Ela Gandhi argues that the state’s social assistance schemes are discriminatory, and should be extended to all Among the many pieces of apartheid legislation in our country there is one which has major implications for the Government of National Unity — the Social Assistance Bill and its regulations. In terms of this Bill, […]

The Constitutional Court is about to decide on the legality of banning porn, writes Justin Pearce Pornography will be in the dock next week when the Constitutional Court considers whether a section of the Indecent or Obscene Photographic Matter Act of 1967 should be scrapped in terms of the free speech provisions and other constitutional […]

Consol is restructuring its glass operation in a drive=20 to becoming globally competitive, reports Karen=20 Packaging and rubber manufacturer Consol of Germiston=20 is undertaking a major restructuring of its glass=20 operation to become globally competitive through=20 greater throughput and better utilisation of man hours. Speaking at the annual financial results, chairman Piet=20 Neethling said a […]

Karen Harverson Local coal producers will be vying to clinch the=20 remaining coal contracts for Eskom’s R10-billion Majuba=20 power station which, when completed, will consume some=20 13-million tons of coal a year. =20 The power station, which has a design capacity of 40=20 036 megawatts, will entail the construction of six=20 sets, each consisting of […]

With a few more good performances, Claire Nitch can=20 attain her goal of a top eight ranking SQUASH: Mark Lamport-Stokes REALISM would rank high among the many qualities=20 possessed by South Africa’s number one women’s squash=20 player Claire Nitch. The 23-year-old from Gauteng, while not sacrificing a=20 burning ambition to be the very best she […]

CINEMA: Stanley Peskin MIAMI Rhapsody is a quite amusing film about the=20 related themes of married life and adultery. Love is,=20 as Louis Armstrong informs us over the credit titles,=20 “just one of those things” and the self-indulgent=20 heroine Gwynn Marcus (Sarah Jessica Parker) comes to=20 the conclusion that love, hardly ever rhapsodic, is=20 like […]