OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kinshasa | Sunday THE president of Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Joseph Kabila, has unveiled a new cabinet that includes several aides to his assassinated father. But Kabila did not renew the portfolio of the government’s previous number two, former interior minister Gaetan Kakudji, and a number of other ministers he inherited […]
PAN Africanist Congress President Dr Stanley Mogoba says a poverty eradication tax is critical for all South Africans to be comfortable, calling poverty a time bomb which “might blow up in our faces sooner rather than later.” In his opening address at the party’s annual conference at Vista University in Bloemfontein, he said urged the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Los Angeles | Saturday THE cutthroat fight for economic survival in the struggling Internet marketplace has lead online search engine Yahoo! to embrace the porn industry, the first major net company to do so. The move has made Yahoo a giant in the online porn industry, one of the few sectors of the […]
THE expansion by SA companies into the rest of the African continent is making headlines around the world, with the latest edition of the international news weekly, Time magazine, devoting an entire page to what it calls “the SA invasion”. Citing examples such as supermarket group Shoprite Checkers, the Time article describes how SA companies […]
PICK ‘n Pay, one of South Africa’s largest retail chains, on Tuesday posted a lower-than-expected 21.9% increase in earnings and announced an aggressive expansion programme. The company said headline earnings per share – earnings stripped of exceptional items and their tax effects – grew to 63 cents from 52 cents before. The rise in earnings […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday A JOHANNESBURG man and his New Zealand-based father – who share the same name -both go on trial this month on separate charges of murdering their wives. Colin David Bouwer, 50, a former head of the department of psychological medicine at the Dunedin School of Medicine, goes on trial in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday THE African National Congress (ANC) has closed ranks around its beleagured Chief Whip Tony Yengeni, who was due to answer claims this week that he failed to disclose a luxury vehicle from a company involved in the states R43bn arms deal. Yengeni had until 5pm on Thursday to respond […]
DIVERSIFIED black empowerment group African Harvest is offering 152c per share for the remainder of Pennystocks Investments shares it does not already own after taking its stake in Pennystocks to over 35% on Wednesday. The proposed deal is subject to the fulfilment of various conditions, including regulatory, Pennystocks shareholder and high court approval. Pennystocks is […]
SOUTH Africa is having second thoughts about legalised gambling, with the poor spending their last coins on dreams of instant wealth. “I wonder whether it is not time to have another look at our policies on gambling, especially casinos,” Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya told parliament earlier this month, a call that has won backing […]
Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez I-arritu, <i>Love’s a Bitch</i> (Amores Perros in Spanish) tells the story of three very different types of people, runs for two-and-a-half hours and, if that sounds a bit clinical, it’s a passionate but lucid masterpiece.