OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.30AM. AFTER losing more than a full day’s play to rain, South Africa’s three-day match against Essex in preparation for the fifth Test at Headingly ended in a draw. When play was abandoned, South Africa had scored 406/5 declared in their first innings, and 27 without loss in the second. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 5.30pm SOME 8000 chemical workers in the rubber and plastic sectors were still locked in talks with management on Monday afternoon in a bid to end the Chemical Workers’ Industrial Union strike, which started at midnight on Sunday. At a number of factories, including Port Elizabeth-based pharmaceutical companies Pharmacare Lennox […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.00pm. SANLAM’S chief economist Jac Laubscher said on Monday he concurs with Reserve Bank governor Chris Stals’s assessment that the rand appears to be levelling off, and he would not be surprised to see it dip below the R6 to the dollar mark. Speaking before the National Council of Provinces’ […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cheltenham | Sunday 1.00PM. SOUTH Africa’s final warm-up fixture against Essex failed to get off the ground on Sunday, when a combination of heavy overnight rain and a malfunction in the drainage system resulted in a waterlogged outfield. Play is expected to resume at 3pm. The local fire brigade was called in to […]
Gill Moodie The battle for your brain has arrived in South Africa as an international campaign over health fears linked to cellphone use begins to target local consumers. Leading the way in convincing local users that cellphone calls may be frying your brain is Johannesburg-based Radiation Cellutions, the local importers of Microshield, a British product […]
Greig Coetzee’s plays have shown alternative sides of the male psyche. Denise rack Louw probed him about his characters `For me, writing is a passion. At times it can also be a pain in the ass; but, like eating and sleeping it’s something I simply have to do,” says Greig Coetzee, author and executor of […]
Richard Hall Joseph Conrad described one of his villains as a “papier-mch Mephistopheles”. That was the image of Tiny Rowland, who has died aged 80. His secretive nature and mocking smile seemed to fit perfectly with Edward Heath’s descriptive tag: “An unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism”. Despite his Old Etonian airs, Rowland was born […]
Mail & Guardian reporter Job-seeking graduates tempted to put a “willing to do anything legal for cash” ad in the classifieds, take heart: the Mail & Guardian graduate recruitment fair will make sure your expensive education takes you further than waiting tables. The fair, to be held at Cape Town’s Good Hope Centre from August […]
Heather Connon The publishing industry could be transformed by the Internet in the same way that the music business was revitalised by the compact disc in the Eighties, according to Michael Lynton, president and CEOof Penguin. Sales of books through the Internet have been growing rapidly. Amazon.com, which created the market when it launched in […]
Tim Radford reports on a new probe of the red planet British scientists are hoping to land an instrument on Mars that will “sniff” the presence of extraterrestrial life. Beagle 2 – the name evokes Charles Darwin’s world- changing voyage aboard HMS Beagle in 1831 – could be launched aboard a European mission called Mars […]