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 […]
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 […]
Jan Taljaard LESS than a day after a police raid last week, rebel radio station Radio Donkerhoek defied the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) by going back on the air. The defiant right-wing broadcaster sprung into action once more from the same cellar in which station chief Willem Ratte last Wednesday threatened that the station’s equipment […]
Jacques Magliolo The Board of Executive Corporation (BOECorp) has once again proved to investors that it is a financial force to be taken seriously. In the first six months of its present fiscal year, the company has more than satisfied its shareholders, producing a 94,4 percent annualised increase in attributable income. Other annualised figures are […]
Gerald Combrinck ORLANDO Pirates take the ever growing reputation of South African soccer a step further this weekend when they travel to Nigeria to face BCC Lions in an African Champions Cup second round first leg game. To say that Pirates will be stepping into the “lion’s den” is an understatement, because there is no […]
Critical Consumer Pat Sidley THABO MBEKI, the deputy president, raises some important issues as he tramples on some dearly held principles. But, perhaps, in the debate which follows in the wake of his desire for the government to colonise our airwaves to get its message across, he may take stock of what this critical consumer […]
THERE is something both sad and courageous about Bert’s Buskers, a Johannesburg skiffle band that contains six of the oldest musicians in the country. Sad because, in the case of their eldest member, 81-year-old spoon-player Gunner Burns, time is getting on; courageous because, despite their age — the average is seventysomething — their capacity for […]
Peter Rorvik THE Tuesday weather map depicted a pair of cold fronts heading up from the Atlantic, with rain and cold expected at Splashy Fen. Well, it got cold but, unlike last year, it didn’t rain. In fact, there were some glorious sunny spells at the festival last weekend– people swam in the river every […]
With Kenya and Italy sending weak teams local athletes won’t really be facing much competition this weekend ATHLETICS: Julian Drew THE curtain comes down on the domestic athletics season in Cape Town tomorrow with the first athletics Test match in South Africa since 1966. Italy and Kenya will compete against a South African team and […]
Steven Ntuli Labour Minister Tito Mboweni is struggling to find workers for his department. The problem, he says, is that he pays too little. The former trade union leader made this candid admission at an impromptu speech at Rhodes University this week. ”I am struggling to get black workers to work at the department because […]