MONDAY, 6.00PM: GOLD shares dominated the day’s events on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Monday, climbing with unusual energy as the gold price continued to rise towards the $300 an ounce level. Merger speculation helped financials, while industrials followed hopes that the new Reserve Bank repo rate will start at 15%, down from the current […]
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/ 27 February 1998
Janet Smith If you’re thinking of sharing your copies of Seymore Butts Meets the Pleasure Girls and Sluts and Angels in Budapest with your coterie of fellow porn-lovers, think twice. The South African Police Services (SAPS) in Port Elizabeth – which had obviously had enough of pornography being peddled with scant regard for the law […]
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/ 27 February 1998
Pat McDermott Cricket The nagging thought about the Pakistan team at present embroiled in the second Test against South Africa at Kingsmead is whether their captain Rashid Latif really wants to play or not. Again on the sidelines, as he was during the controversy-racked and rain-sodden abortive opening encounter in the three-Test series at the […]
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/ 27 February 1998
FRIDAY 12:30PM AMERICANS Bruce Vaughan and Scott Dunlap led the charge on seven-under-par 65 at the end of the first round of the R500 000 Royal Swazi Sun Open. Both golfers, who were later matched by resident Swazi pro Paul Friedlander, took full advantage of preferred lies, minimal rough and near-perfect weather to open up […]
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/ 27 February 1998
Anthony Egan BEYOND THE COLOUR LINE: PAN-AFRICANIST DISPUTATIONS by Kwesi Kwaa Prah (Vivlia, R49,99) The other subtitle of this book gives the reader fair warning of what to expect: Selected Sketches, Letters,Papers and Reviews. Although the pieces are all about Pan-Africanism and its potential as an alternative to current African policies, the book is a […]
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/ 27 February 1998
Janet Smith On show in Pretoria A young man looking forward to getting his first job phoned famed Mexican architect and photographer Oscar Hagerman to tell him a wonderful story. He had never forgotten the day when Hagerman came to his village and took his picture – a portrait of a beloved and beautiful child […]
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/ 27 February 1998
Crime is an easy target for foreign journalists, but some are finding new angles on South Africa writes Lynda Gledhill When CNN’s Mike Hanna reports that South Africa is on the brink of anarchy, millions around the world sit up and listen. Recently this global television news empire devoted half an hour to spiralling crime […]
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/ 27 February 1998
Luis Bernardo Honwana, a founder of modern Mozambican literature, now works in South Africa, representing Unesco. He spoke to Stephen Gray Mr Honwana, please describe your job. I was despatched to this country by Unesco [the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation]after the 1994 elections, as their director here, to negotiate the re-entry of […]
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/ 27 February 1998
Maria McCloy Advertising CD-ROM advertising and promoting products on the Internet are becoming increasingly popular, but certain brands and advertising companies are finding that one of the best ways to reach South Africans is to target them when they’re travelling to and from work. The commuter market numbers can’t be ignored. Ken Varejes of Johannesburg […]
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/ 27 February 1998
Suzy Bell Durban is hosting the first South African festival, The Time of the Writer, at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, University of Natal from March 2 to 7, to honour local and international writers. The six-day conference, organised by The Centre for Creative Arts in conjunction with the French Institute and with assistance from the […]