Simon Segal COMPARED to our survey at the beginning of the year,=20 South Africa’s major economic forecasters have slightly=20 scaled down their economic growth forecasts.=20 On average, the 10 forecasting units now expect gross=20 domestic product (GDP) to grow 2,9 percent this year=20 and 3,3 percent next year. GDP estimates at the=20 beginning of the […]
The dream final — the single mindedness and skill of=20 the All Blacks against the ‘one team, one nation’=20 determination of South Africa=20 RUGBY: Jon Swift IT IS fitting, given the World Cup trials and=20 tribulations of Francois Pienaar’s South African side,=20 that the final hurdle should be in the form of this=20 country’s traditional […]
The Rugby World Cup has been an enormous success as a=20 catalyst for the kind of national unity which is possible in South Africa, writes Jon Swift
CINEMA: Stanley Peskin IN Walt Disney’s 33rd animated feature film,=20 Pocahontas, a native American heroine, is cast in the=20 mould of the Little Mermaid, Beauty and Jasmin, all of=20 whom are free spirits. With her sculpted features and=20 long flowing black hair, she goes wherever the wind=20 takes her. And it leads her directly to […]
Meshack Mabogoane reports on the saga that has been=20 played out at National Sorghum Breweries National Sorghum Breweries (NSB) has teamed up with=20 Indian brewing giant, United Brewery International=20 The deal means NSB will now produce the Indian brewer’s=20 Kingfisher Lager at Vivo’s brewery. The joint venture marks the most extensive Indian=20 investment in South […]
Misapprehensions and misrepresentations followed the=20 Irish Republican leader on his visit to South Africa,=20 writes David Beresford There was, it must be said, room for misunderstanding,=20 and misunderstanding there surely was as the Irish=20 Republican leader made a triumphant entry into the=20 Transvaal shanty town of Phola Park on Sunday. “I don’t know who this […]
TELEVISION: Luke Alfred ALTHOUGH former Radio Rat Jonathan Handley is on the=20 other end of a telephone, one can imagine his eyes=20 lighting up at the magical sound of “pop”. The word has=20 special connotations for the man who, years ago, penned=20 that eerie local classic, Z-X Dan. For Handley, now in his 40s and […]
Bruce Cohen WEB FEET Aliweb’s the key The World Wide Web (WWW) browsers Netscape and Mosaic=20 are the virtual keys to the virtual world — but they=20 only unlock the door to cyberspace. Once you’re in,=20 where do you go? What makes the Internet truly=20 accessible are the search engines that have been=20 established around […]
NATIONAL Party MPs gave a fresh fillip this week to=20 their long and deserved reputation for hypocrisy by=20 their demands for a referendum on capital punishment.=20 As one of the parties to South Africa’s political=20 settlement the Nats can hardly fail to be aware that=20 there is a division of constitutional powers which puts=20 the […]
Eddie Koch A BUSINESS organisation, which this week promised to=20 mobilise more than 100 000 workers of all races to=20 neutralise union mass action against the labour bill,=20 collaborated in dirty tricks operations to undermine=20 the ANC and its trade union wing in 1991 and 1992 –=20 long after Nelson Mandela was released.=20 Top secret […]