The IMF has forecast a drop in South Africa’s growth rate=20 for this year, reports Reg Rumney International Monetary Fund economists have cut their=20 forecast for South Africa’s growth rate for the 1995=20 calendar year by half a percentage point because of=20 drought. This was revealed at a press seminar held in=20 Windhoek by the […]
South African firms will have to go global, but do our=20 company directors understand how to operate across=20 international borders? Jacques Magliolo reports International competition is rapidly becoming a way of life=20 in South Africa; however, the ability of local directors to=20 understand how the new global village will function in the=20 immediate future is […]
Restaurants are just like the theatre, says Robert Colman,=20 whose latest play is all about eating. Matthew Krouse=20 AS a two-year work-in-progress reaches fruition, Robert=20 Colman — author and director of Afrodizzia, at the=20 Johannesburg Civic Theatre — reflects on the times and=20 traumas that formed his fantastical farce about food. The idea of setting […]
THEATRE: Guy Willoughby THE honeymoon is over, and a year down the line all of us=20 voters — the slapgatte as well as the sentient — should=20 start subjecting the new political order to sharp scrutiny.=20 That’s the premise of You ANC Nothing Yet, Pieter-Dirk Uys’=20 fine new revue at Cape Town’s Dock Road Theatre, […]
CINEMA: Stanley Peskin IN Mike Leigh’s Naked, a 27-year-old man comes from=20 Manchester to London. Claiming to be fascinated with all=20 things peripatetic, Johnny (Daniel Thewlis) is unable to=20 find any meaning in or make any commitment to people, life,=20 or any religious belief. In a series of encounters with friends and strangers he=20 meets […]
A new book, Share Analysis and Company Forecasting: How to=20 Make Money on the JSE by Weekly Mail & Guardian financial=20 journalist Jacques Magliolo aims to demystify the=20 Johannesburg Stock Exchange for the investor and to outline=20 how analysts assess companies. Areas covered include: understanding the JSE; how to read=20 share price pages; outlining shareholders’ […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift THERE is a lot of truth in the old adage that there is no=20 remarks column on the scoreboard. But, with only a four- point edge in the 104 points scored in two warm-up matches=20 against Western Province and Natal, the World Cup squad=20 have some serious thinking to do. There are […]
The death of veteran anti-apartheid activist Yusef Cachalia was a “great personal blow,” President Nelson Mandela said this week. Cachalia, who had been ill for some time, died on Tuesday at the age of 80. Mandela said he and Cachalia had been friends since the ANC veteran Walter Sisulu said he and Cachalia, who had […]
Michael McMurray THE Constitutional Court has been asked to rule on a controversial dagga law which automatically turns dope smokers into dope dealers if they’re found with more than a handful of the weed. At stake is the validity of the so-called “suspicion” or “presumption” clause in the Drug and Drug Trafficking Act of 1992. […]
Kader Asmal, the Minister of Water Affairs, has entered the debate on the controversial plan for a steelmill at Langebaan. Eddie Koch and Rehana Rossouw report WATER Affairs Minister Kader Asmal wants a “total reassessment” of the impact that Iscor’s proposed steel mill will have on the ecology of the Langebaan lagoon — and will […]