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/ 26 February 2000
GOLD production rose by 1,6% to 114,5 tons in the final quarter of last year from the third quarter, the Chamber of Mines said on Thursday. Fourth-quarter 1999 output was 3,8% lower than the 119 tons produced in the same period of 1998 said the Chamber, which represents major mining houses. Production in the quarter […]
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/ 26 February 2000
SOUTH Africa’s James Kingston took the first round lead on thursday in the $200000 Myanmar Open after carding a course record eight-under-par 64 at the Yangon Golf Club. Kingston, a two-time winner on the Asian PGA Tour, fired a faultless round which included eight birdies to open up a three-stroke lead over India’s Jyoti Randhawa […]
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/ 26 February 2000
PAGAD national chief coordinator Abdus Salaam Ebrahim has been denied bail in the Cape Town Regional Court. The court said the path of intimidation that Pagad has chosen has caused the organisation a lot of damage and that there is no exceptional circumstances justifying Ebrahim’s release on bail. Ebrahim is accused of murdering Hard Livings […]
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/ 25 February 2000
He specialises in brutal male dramas. But in The Insider Michael Mann’s protagonists aren’t gunslingers, angry Mohicans or serial killers – they’re corporate Americans. Stuart Husband reports.
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/ 25 February 2000
The Human Rights Commission says that it served subpoenas on newspaper editors, including the editor of the Mail & Guardian, Phillip van Niekerk, because it believed this was the only way of ensuring their attendance at the hearings. The Mail & Guardian never refused to attend.
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/ 25 February 2000
There was a strong South African presence at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival. Andrew Worsdale was there.
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/ 25 February 2000
It wasn’t that long ago that patrons of bars and restuarants were requested to “please refrain from the smoking of pipes and cigars”. The traditional image of a cigar smoker was a leisurely fat cat in his fifties. A man with both time and money on his hands. Now it seems that most establishments carry […]
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/ 25 February 2000
Barry Streek The Pan South African Language Board has accused state railway company Spoornet of acting unconstitutionally and unlawfully in banning the use of Afrikaans in the work place. In an unprecedented ruling, the board, which was appointed under the 1994 Constitution, says no institution is “allowed to restrict the use of a language between […]
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/ 25 February 2000
Avoid the hassles of the road and go to Cape Town by rail Angus Begg I have a friend living near Johannesburg who booked on the Trans-Karoo’s new luxury version – Premier Classe – for a journey to Cape Town. Her search for the promised “Africa of a bygone era” took some work. Her difficulty […]