Lizeka Mda: CITY LIMITS Six o’clock in the evening and there is no parking space left in the Old Edwardian Sports Club in Lower Houghton. Cars overflow outside the club’s gates on to Fourth Street, all the way to 11th Avenue. These are the premises of the Old Edwardian Society, prime real estate in this […]
Belinda Beresford While there still may be some international scepticism about South Africa’s future, Trevor Manuel has signalled the government’s confidence by a further relaxation of exchange controls. Those unbelievers wanting to leave the country have been given a goodbye present – they can now take up to R1-million of household and personal effects. If […]
The community of a mine was the environment for one of the SABC’s most memorable dramas ever, but it’s unlikely The Villagers will provide any reference point – bar its common setting – for the SABC3’s new homegrown, four-day weekly soap. The as-yet unnamed serial, which is pinned for the 6.30pm slot Mondays to Thursdays, […]
The battle for a free Namibia has been won, but the Herero people still suffer from a defeat at German hands in 1904, writes John Grobler In the small, dusty graveyard of Usakos, Adelheid Tjijorokisa-Ndjavera points to headstones marking the graves of her family. The impressive headstone of Karl-Heinrich Knaeble, born in Oberndorf, Bavaria, and […]
FRIDAY, 11.30AM: FORMER anti-apartheid activist Dean Snyders, who was arrested last week on charges of dealing in uncut diamonds with a value of R1,8-million, has accused his former friend, Northern Cape Premier Manne Dipico, of framing him in a sting operation as a result of a power struggle between senior African National Congress officials in […]
Trevor Manuel’s budget held few surprises, writes Belinda Beresford Forget the call to restore flogging and other old-fashioned punishments for crimes. Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has a similar frontier penalty in mind for tax-dodgers – public shaming. Where once South Africans could keep an eye on their friends, neighbours and enemies via the gossip […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM LATEST economic and financial projections published by the Reserve Bank on Friday predict a 3% growth rate for 1998/99 — in line with estimates presented in the Budget this week. Reserve Bank governor Dr Chris Stals told a parliamentary finance committee on the Budget that the Budget will enable monetary policy to be […]
Julian Drew Two years ago at the Atlanta Paralympics I was fortunate enough to stay with a wonderful family who were all involved with the Games in one way or another as volunteers. Alistair, the second of three children, was born with cerebral palsy but like all the athletes who descended on Atlanta for those […]
In a world of restless and edgy markets, Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel managed to project a reassuring image of amiable calm during the delivery of his budget speech that shows, at the very least, that he has become a consummate salesman. Despite the innate conservatism of the budget, the gradual swing towards more investment […]
Marion Edmunds Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel’s copy of the 1998/1999 budget speech was a prize attraction this week at a lavish banquet for South Africa’s top black businesspeople who gathered to toast Manuel and the country’s foremost black entrepreneur, Cyril Ramaphosa. The document – which included some gentle tax cuts for the richest of […]