BIG South African food and furniture retailer Shoprite Holdings on Tuesday lifted annual headline earnings 27% and said it planned to accelerate its African expansion to counter subdued trading at home. ”For the next 18 months, we plan 15 stores for Africa, 12 for South Africa, 21 in Egypt and some 60-odd franchises in South […]
Johannesburg | Friday FINANCIAL markets should learn to differentiate between developments in one southern African country and another, Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni said on Thursday. Mboweni was speaking at the University of South Africa after receiving the Department of Business Management’s award for excellence in managing the South African financial environment. Referring to the […]
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<b>Review:</b> <i>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay</i> by Michael Chabon (Fourth Estate) By Lexy Bloom.
He’s a working-class hero, a caring single father, a bestselling author … Oh, and he’s charming too. Is Tony Parsons for real? Libby Brooks finds out.
<b>Review:</b> African Theatre: Playwrights AND Politics edited by Martin Banham, James Gibbs and Femi Osofisan (James Currey/Indiana University Press/Witwatersrand University Press), by Rob Amato.
More than 70 representatives of the South African film industry attended a seminar by the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) in Johannesburg last week to iron out problems plaguing the trade, reports Andrew Worsdale.
Jazz at the Grahamstown festival might have been a pedestrian affair, but Gwen Ansell predicts, the Joy of Jazz festival will be anything but.
ADDITIONAL police and prison cells have been made available to police during the World Conference Against Racism to deal with offenders who ignored the strict security rules in place for the conference at the end of the month. KwaZulu-Natal police representative Director Bala Naidoo said a special court has also been established by the Justice […]
Johannesburg | Thursday RESERVE Bank Governor Tito Mboweni has blamed PAC secretary-general Thami ka Plaatjie and the Zimbabwean government for the slump in the rand, SABC radio news reports. In an off-the-cuff comment at an African investment seminar in Stellenbosch in the Western Cape, Mboweni said “the wheels had come off” in Zimbabwe. In a […]