OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 4.00pm. GIVEN their respective places on the Super 12 log, Saturday’s match between the Stormers and the Cats shouldn’t be a big deal. Additionally, the Stormers are virtually unbeatable at home and the match is at Newlands. And yet the game has attracted massive attention. Cats coach Andre Markgraaff […]
American tycoon James Blanchard has died without seeing much progress being made on his dream project – a massive theme park in Mozambique. Mercedes Sayagues reports James Ulysses Blanchard III, the controversial, paraplegic American tycoon, died of a heart attack in March. He was 54. Staff at Blanchard Mozambique Enterprises (BME) say once his estate […]
THE price of a litre of petrol and other fuels rose by almost 50% in Angola on Friday from 1,9-million to three million new kwanzas. The US dollar buys around 1,8-million new kwanzas. Angola produces 300000 barrels a day of crude oil and hopes to increase output to one million by next year.
THE Congress of SA Trade Unions on Thursday vowed to intensify its struggle against the unilateral privatisation of state enterprises by the government. “We are ready to respond fully to the threat of job losses in a number of state-owned enterprises, Cosatu’s deputy general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said. “Never in any circumstances will Cosatu stand […]
Controversial KwaZulu-Natal Inkatha Freedom Party leader and MPL Phillip Powell was tricked into revealing the large cache of arms.
TEN Pakistanis who were among a group of 21 sailors abducted by a Somali warlord are returning home this weekend after more than six months in captivity, officials said on Friday. The sailors were freed after successful negotiations with their captors by Pakistan ambassador to neighbouring Kenya Hameed Asghar Kidwai and officials of the Asaka […]
Ted Leggett A Second Look The schoolboy killings in Littleton, Colorado, have sent the United States into a paroxysm of self-analysis, and the media circus that has followed is unparalleled since the Clinton impeachment. Guilt-ridden middle-class mothers across the US are frantically scanning the tabloids for tips on how to spot the “warning signs” that […]
BRYAN PEARSON, Thokoza | Thursday 8.20pm INKATHA Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Thursday launched a blistering attack on the ruling African National Congress, fuelling already-simmering tension following the unearthing of a massive IFP arms cache. Buthelezi, addressing an election rally in Thokoza east of Johannesburg — once an arena of bloody conflict between the […]
Maybe it’s just that I was sore because she didn’t ask me for a contribution, but I expected to find excessive and gratuitous use of bodily fluids in Veronique Malherbe’s exhibition, The Quest for Zero Defect, at the Joo Ferreira Fine Art gallery. Rumours and publicity about chocolate made from breast milk and a halo […]
MPUMALANGA education department official and African National Congress leader, Ben Mthembu, has received telephonic death threats after drafting a report on the province’s matric exam scandal. Mthembu drafted a damning report on the role of an alleged cabal of nepotistic officials in the scandal for the ANC’s provincial working committee two weeks ago. Mthembu has […]