SAILING: Jonathan Spencer Jones JUST over seven months and some 27 000 miles after setting out from Charleston, United States, 35-year-old Frenchman Christophe Auguin on Sceta Calberson, sailed into the record books when he arrived back in Charleston on April 27 to capture his second straight Class I and overall victory — and the $100 […]
Provincial governments may be on the verge of bypassing the IBA, reports Justin Pearce Provincial governments, furious at being sidelined by SABC television coverage, are planning to hit back at the Auckland Park monolith. Representatives of eight of the nine provinces met last month in Ulundi to discuss their unanimous concern that the SABC is […]
Furniture companies’ are beginning to shine on the stock exchange, reports Jacques Magliolo For the first time in five years, furniture companies are performing well on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange dispelling investor concerns that these companies are doomed never to resurface as players of note. Their return to prominence on the JSE board is a […]
Justin Pearce How can the provinces turn the idea of provincially-based broadcasting into a reality? While this matter is still up for discussion, the Bophuthatswana Broadcasting Corporation this week presented the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) with a proposal to open up Bop Broadcasting’s facilities as a resource for all the provinces. This plan would see […]
Marketing Clive Simpkins GOING to the movies has always been a somewhat ritualistic event. Right from my childhood, going to Johannesburg’s Yeoville “bughouse”, as we used to call it, was a great adventure. Buying “coolies” (cool drinks) and noisily wrapped sweets was all part of the entertainment, as was being daring enough to rest your […]
The points of agreement and disagreement between business and labour about weighty issues are seldom scrutinised together. The Community Agency for Social Enquiry (Case) research agency did just this in a survey commissioned by the Weekly Mail & Guardian, the South African Chamber of Business (Sacob), and the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Business editor Reg […]
Business considers the March 15 Budget a resounding success, reports Reg Rumney Business response to the first Budget of the Government of National Unity was overwhelmingly positive. A survey of 100 of South Africa’s top business people, undertaken by the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (Case) just after the Budget of the GNU, shows almost […]
Dr Sibongile Zungu in the Mark Gevisser profile Something quite miraculous happens to Dr Sibongile Zungu, nkosi of the Madlebe tribe, when she dons her chiefly regalia: the rather frumpish, prematurely-matronlike woman, swaddled in a faux-kente caftan, transforms into the coquettish ntombi; flirtatious and swaggering in equal measure. Previously, sitting inside her classically bourgeois living-room […]
After sitting among the fanatical crowd at Newlands last weekend, Luke Alfred believes it was a futile exercise WE can surely all agree that the game between the South African President’s XV and Western Province at Newlands last Saturday was a fairly futile exercise. At times the bad tempered, money-spinning event looked almost worse than […]
Ann Eveleth ENGEN’S oil refineries are the biggest air polluters in the Durban South Industrial Basin, a Durban Water and Waste representative Niel MacLeod said this week. He told about 200 delegates at a workshop on pollution problems affecting residents of Austerville, Wentworth, Merebank, Isipingo,Lamontville and Umlazi, that Engen produces nearly 48 percent of sulphur […]