The Markets=20 Jacques Magliolo=20 Stockbrokers are slow to accept change and nothing=20 upsets them more than when their old boys’ club is=20 interfered with. =20 Now, only seven months after being forced to allow=20 institutions to become corporate members of the=20 exchange, the realisation that they have no choice and=20 no way out is finally […]
Bruce Cohen=20 A bitter battle for the knock ‘n drop newspaper market=20 in Gauteng between the Argus Company and Caxtons has=20 ended — and just begun.=20 The Appeal Court this week upheld an appeal by Caxtons- CTP against an 18-month-old Supreme Court judgment which=20 allowed Argus to publish freesheets in competition with=20 Caxtons, which was […]
BALLET: Stanley Peskin=20 IT has not been established whether Emma Livry’s costume=20 caught fire while dancing the title role of Taglioni’s=20 Papillon (1860) or during a rehearsal of Auber’s opera=20 La Muette de Portici, in which the role of the dumb girl=20 was traditionally played by a ballerina. =20 Whichever account of her death is […]
Eddie Koch A COMMISSION set up this week to probe Thor Chemicals’ importation of toxic waste to South Africa may be presented with evidence of links between employees of the British multinational and a covert weapons The Environmental Justice Network Forum (EJNF), a coalition of environmental groups, this week said it feared the commission would […]
THEATRE: Guy Willoughby=20 IT’S nearly two months to go before the World Rugby Cup,=20 and Paul Slabolepszy’s getting in early. The country’s=20 chief analyst of the white male ego couldn’t hope for a=20 better setting, and in his rumbustious new comedy Heel=20 Against the Head (at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town) he=20 scores nearly […]
In film and fiction, vampires are bigger than ever. Now,=20 a new author has given the ‘undead’ a vigorous new life,=20 writes Shaun de Waal=20 EXACTLY a century ago, Bram Stoker was hard at work on=20 his novel Dracula, which was to become the prototype for=20 innumerable incarnations, in books and films, of the=20 figure […]
Louise Flanagan Defence Minsister Joe Modise says he wants to get to the bottom of the Anton Lubowski affair — but he is refusing to meet a Weekly Mail & Guardian request to view the files which Military Intelligence (MI) supposedly have on the assassinated Namibian advocate. By producing the files, the military should be […]
Native tongue Bafana Khumalo I am sitting in an apartment in Hillbrow and opposite me is a white man dressed in a hood that is similar to that of some medieval monk. He hands me a bunch of metal coins with holes in them and tells me to shake them in my hands and throw […]
A new airline brings more travel options to South=20 African travellers. Andre van Zyl reports=20 A new airline, Avia Airlines, has taken over the slot=20 created by Virgin Atlantic Airlines to bring an end to=20 the domination of South African Airways and British=20 Airways on the lucrative and historic Johannesburg- London route.=20 Avia’s crew will […]
Despite her ranking as one of the more prominent and most highly-regarded women in the African National Congress caucus, Brigitte Mabandla’s appointment as Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture, Science and Technology has come as a surprise. Mabandla, a constitutional and human rights lawyer, has no experience in either the arts or the technology world. […]