Simon Caulkin The corporate website was a novelty a couple of years ago. Now it is just another part of doing business. About 90% of the biggest European companies and almost all large American ones now have a presence on the World Wide Web, and the phenomenon is quickly embracing smaller firms. Setting up a […]
The council’s closure of Mega Music is a severe blow to musicians and has left Johannesburg looking even more like a ghost town at night, writes Peter Makurube The Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council has finally unleashed the axe on Mega Music Trust, the body that runs Mega Music warehouse, an epicentre for musical happenings in […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer It is unfortunate that at a time when South African soccer should be presenting a united front to the world, cracks are appearing in relations between the national association and its professional wing. Premier Soccer League (PSL) chief executive Joe Ndhlela last week requested that referee Petros Mathabela be barred after the […]
ENGLAND’S hopes of hosting the 2006 World Cup received a boost on Thursday when shareholders approved the sale of Wembley stadium to a subsidiary company of the English Football Association (FA). The 103-million deal with paves the way for a 320-million redevelopment of the stadium. Another boost followed when Fifa spokesperson Keith Cooper confirmed that […]
`We are trapped in a wilderness of mirrors,” James Jesus Angleton, the former head of counter- intelligence for the CIA, is quoted as having once said. Angleton was referring, of course, to the impossibility of finding one’s bearings in a professional world dedicated to bluff and counter-bluff, where nothing is what it appears to be. […]
Late last week I switched on to a BBC television programme de- voted to money and financial matters. On this occasion the subject was a debate about an address given earlier by Eddie George, governor of the Bank of England. I got ready to be thoroughly bored; it wasn’t long, however, before I found myself […]
ANGLO American Platinum Corporation disclosed on Thursday that its new R1,2-billion Bafokeng Rasimone platinum mine, 10km from Sun City, will be brought into full production 21 months ahead of schedule in April next year. By that time the mine will be milling 200000 tons of ore a month. Business manager George Viljoen said the new […]
There’s trouble ahead for South Africa’s banks as they try to pursue First World banking in a developing economy. Donna Block reports South African bankers have turned the simple act of squirming into an art. Perhaps it’s all the practice they’ve been getting. They squirmed when United States Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin took them to […]
upright people’ With its biennial film festival the little country of Burkina Faso plays a big role in African film-making. John Matshikiza found the `reel’ heart of Africa in Ouagadougou Give a dog a bad name and he’ll be a bad dog. Give a dog a good name, and he might just turn into a […]
FOUR people were arrested on Thursday in Cape Town township Nyanga following a shootout between political rivals hours before a non-denominational church service designed to calm tension in the area, police said.Police spokesman Captain Mark Romburg said the shootout occurred in KTC, a shanty-town in the heart of Nyanga, where five political organisers have been […]