ABOUT half the 5000 jobs in jeopardy at Gauteng’s East Rand Proprietary Mine may be saved if mine workers’ union NUM agree to the restructuring of the mine, SABC radio news reports on Thursday. Potential buyers are expected to meet the liquidators on Friday when the miners’ contracts expire. ERPM went into provisional liquidation earlier […]
THE Border Bulldogs have named their team to play the Natal Sharks in a Currie Cup match in Durban on Sunday: Wayne Weyer, David Maidza, Glenn Gelderbloom (capt), Ryan Pickering, Kaya Malotana, Kobus van der Merwe, Richard Bennet, Marcel van der Walt, Eddie Swart, Bennie Jacobs, Reon Kockjeu, Mario Botha, Robin Swanepoel, Delarey du Preez, […]
STANDARD Bank said Thursday it has signed a five-year R35-million deal with Emmanuels Staffing Services. Emamanuels, part of the Adcorp group, will supply management and specific staff functions at Standard’s cheque processing sites in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town. Mike Backwell,Standard Bank’s director of operational services, said the deal will help improve […]
CD of the week Stanley Peskin The original source for Giacomo Puccini’s Il Trittico (1918) was Dante’s Purgatorio, Paradiso and Inferno. The composer abandoned the first two, using only Canto
Preview of the week Brendan Cooper It’s the singer, not the song – or in this case, the singers, not the bands – that will see the Standard Bank Arena (Johannesburg) and the Three Arts Theatre (Cape Town) packed to the rafters with sexually confused, self- doubting rock kids next weekend when Garbage and Placebo […]
John Grobler Staff moving into the new Namibian Supreme Court building have discovered a treasure trove of ancient German and Roman Dutch Law books, many dating back to the early 1600s, stuffed in boxes and kept inexplicably in a cellar. The collection of about 3 700 books includes rare books such as a much-handled copy […]
Better roads, B&B on a kibbutz, taking a stroll on the Sea of Galilee – they’re all part of the plans to make these year-end celebrations the biggest and best in the world. Michael Freedland writes from Israel It’s as though the archbishop of Canterbury were running a barmitzvah, or the chief rabbi were in […]
A South African short film was recently awarded the Silver Falcon having been placed second in the video section of the International Festival of Non-Professional Filmmakers held for the 19th time in the seaside resort of Kelibia, in Tunisia. The kudos went to Cape Town filmmaker Sally White for her film Whaleman, the story of […]
The man behind the attack on Land Bank MDHelena Dolny has some axes to grind, writes Mungo Soggot The man behind the attack on Land Bank managing director Helena Dolny has good reason to dislike her – she blocked his bid to tap Land Bank funds for his private company. Former Land Bank chair Bonile […]
Peter Dickson A probe is under way into sexual harassment and racism claims by white women warders against the head of Port Elizabeth’s St Albans prison Medium B section. Department of Correctional Services representative Patrick Baxter said the department viewed the allegations against section head Tamsanqa Khoza, accused of demanding sex from women warders in […]