Last Saturday, 16 Face of Africa entrants went bopping down Adderley Street in homespun couture Michelle Matthews Face of Africa producer Jan Malan bustles about Bloomsbury’s, the luxury car dealers in Buitengragt Street, Cape Town. ”Tuck in your panty-lines, girls,” he warns the models perched on the Mercedes convertibles, their black satin pants riding down […]
I was astonished and saddened to read the editorial in the Mail&Guardian headed ”The M&G’s not for burning” (April 7 to 13). Three-quarters of the editorial was devoted to an attack on the submission of the editor of The Sunday Independent to the Human Rights Commission’s (HRC) investigation into racism in the media. Firstly, I […]
Saras Jagwanth It is difficult to understand or justify the decision of the Labour Appeal Court in the Beverly Whitehead case. It is even more difficult to understand in the light of recent legislative developments aimed at eradicating unfair discrimination, including the Labour Relations Act, the Employment Equity Act, the Promotion of Equality and Prevention […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 12.20pm. PUBLIC Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe said on Friday that the government will accelerate the restructuring of state-owned assets and hopes to complete deals worth R40-billion by 2004. ”The year 2004 is the year we want to have completed the restructuring agenda in South Africa,” he said. Radebe said the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 12.20pm. PUBLIC Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe said on Friday that the government will accelerate the restructuring of state-owned assets and hopes to complete deals worth R40-billion by 2004. ”The year 2004 is the year we want to have completed the restructuring agenda in South Africa,” he said. Radebe said the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 5.00pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange fell to five-month lows on Thursday, led by a selloff in technology stocks following sustained losses on the US tech-rich Nasdaq composite index. By late afternoon the benchmark All Share index was down 3,18% at 7386, a level last reached in mid-November, with losses across […]
THE United Nations Security Council on Thursday extended its UN political mission in Angola for six months following a report by Secretary-General Kofi Annan that stopped short of criticising the Luanda government on social or human rights issues. The small UN office was established after UN peacekeepers were pulled out of the country when it […]
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As Oliver Stone’s dissection of American football is released on circuit, Danny Leigh discovers it’s impossible to separate the film-maker from his films.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Addis Ababa | Thursday 7.00pm. ETHIOPIA will succeed in averting famine threatening some eight million people, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Thursday while rejecting criticism that its war with Eritrea had exacerbated the crisis. Speaking after meeting with the visiting director of the UN World Food Program Catherine Bertini, Meles said: “The […]