Meshack Mabogoane detects big underlying shifts in black business at the Nafcoc congress There was a strong government presence at the 31st annual conference of the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce (Nafcoc) held this week at Sun The main theme of the conference was how black business could emerge from the sidelines to become […]
Gavin du Venage GAUTENG Safety and Security Minister Jessie Duarte has=20 been snubbed by magistrates after they refused to meet=20 her to discuss bail conditions for people charged with=20 violent crimes. Duarte asked for a meeting last month to discuss bail=20 conditions, in particular those for people accused of=20 taxi-related violence. The request was turned […]
MARIKE DE KLERK won’t be lunching with President Nelson=20 Mandela on Friday — she wasn’t invited. Tienie Vorster=20 and Elize Botha will be there, alongside Adelaide Tambo=20 and Albertina Sisulu, at a lunch hosted by the=20 President for the wives of former South African prime=20 ministers, presidents and liberation movement leaders.=20 Amina Cachalia, who was […]
The much vaunted development programme is paying dividends on the Under-19 tour to England CRICKET: Rupert Cox WHEN West Indian batting star Brian Lara interrupted his busy schedule for a whistle-stop visit to help with the development programme last September, he confessed to being stunned by the raw talent he observed at cricket clinics throughout […]
He lives in Britain, but competes for South Africa, and at just 16 Alexander Heath has qualified for the world cup skiing competition SKIING: Julian Drew ALEXANDER HEATH’S parents probably rue the day when Odibe Mfenyana gave their eight-year-old son a pencil case at his farewell party in Cape Town back in 1988. That innocent […]
IN more than 45 years of investigative journalism,=20 Arthur Gavshon, who wrote occasionally from London for=20 the Mail & Guardian, broke stories and investigated=20 incidents that turned history on its head. Born in Johannesburg, he joined the Associated Press in=20 London in 1946.=20 ”As a journalist,” wrote colleage Tam Dalyell in an=20 obituary, ”he quickly […]
JUSTIN PEARCE discovered a generous, unaffected soul behind Joan Armatrading’s shaggy fringe JOAN ARMATRADING on record is an emotion-enriched voice and elusively perfect melodies that can move cynics to tears. Joan Armatrading on stage is a face grinning from behind a shaggy fringe of hair, an unaffected, slightly awkward manner, and a demeanour that defies […]
THEATRE: David Le Page CUBA and His Teddy Bear: it sounds like a children’s=20 play, and by and large it is likely to be adolescents=20 who will most enjoy this frank work about the=20 relationship between a father, Cuba, his son, Teddy,=20 and drugs — a rather unique menage a trois, in which=20 the imperfection […]
A behind-the-scenes battle is raging in the government as state communication agency Sacs fights for its life, reports Gaye Davis A battle for the heart and sole of government communications policy is underway. The first shots have been fired in a series of behind-the-scenes skirmishes between government spokespeople and the central state information agency, the […]
Bruce Cohen Government is disorganised, if the stationery used by various cabinet ministers is anything to go by. Every ministry which responded to our letter has its own unique letterhead in terms of design, typography, logo, choice of colours and paper. The logos range from the extravagant gold or silver foiled coat of arms (Finance […]