Justin Arenstein The Dolphin Group has closed its South African head office and is fighting to save two of its local flagship hotels after mismanagement plunged the leisure group into financial crisis. Dolphin officials confirmed that the Dubai-based corporation retrenched its head office staff in January after failing to pay rent at its plush Sandton […]
Ntuthuko Maphumulo cycling The Vodacom Ride for Victory cycling competition will showcase some of the top cyclists in the country. The May 6 cycling challenge is a 115km route through the picturesque Suikerbosrand nature reserve. The morning race will be for the top cyclists, followed by amateur cyclists and enthusiasts. The professional cyclists will gain […]
Bruce Whitfield Illovo is facing political opposition to the sale of its stake in a local sugar and hotels group in Mauritius. Illovo’s sale of its 80% stake in Mauritius-based sugar and hotels group Mon Tresor Mon Desert (MTMD) could be reversed due to pressure from that country’s official opposition party and trade unions. They […]
Alex Sudheim preview OFTHEWEEK ‘The kids of today should defend themselves against the Seventies it’s not reality, just someone else’s sentimentality,” intoned an earnest Eddie Vedder a few years back. If by ”the kids of today” the Pearl Jam frontman meant the young members of Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre, they’re defending themselves pretty well, albeit […]
David Beresford Another Country The passions stirred by a letter last week with regard to Another Country could not be accommodated in the usual place this week and are published below instead. Readers pay the price Dear Sir, I quite agree with the comments made last week by Mr B Potgieter. I, too, have been […]
NAWAAL DEANE and MUNGO SOGGOT, Johannesburg | Friday NATIONAL Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi has denied he fled the scene of the Ellis Park soccer stampede, amid allegations from other police officers that, after attending as a spectator, he abandoned the stadium and only returned later in a police helicopter. Selebi says he played a key […]
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THE Security Council issued a mild rebuke Tuesday to rebels who prevented UN peacekeepers from landing in the DRC, and said diplomacy should resolve the problem. The peacekeepers, a contingent of about 120 Moroccan soldiers, were still in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, but a UN officer there said he expected them to […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Thursday TRIBALISM, class privilege and xenophobia are the new face of racism in South Africa, delegates to Mpumalanga’s first summit on racial discrimination heard on Wednesday. Ehlanzeni district municipality mayor Jeri Ngomane warned that ethnic power groups in the country, including former Apartheid Bantustan leaders, were using tribalism to preserve their […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, United Nations | Thursday DESPITE UN sanctions, Angola’s UNITA rebels still smuggled at least $100m worth of diamonds out of the country last year – and will likely do so again this year, a UN report says. In an attempt to force UNITA to end the 25-year civil war in Angola, the Security […]