Drive-in movies are about to take on a whole new meaning as in-car entertainment gets under way. Ashley Norris reports Forget I-Spy! If the kids in the back of your car are restless, you’ll soon be able to entertain them with Rugrats: The Movie on digital versatile disc (DVD) in cinema-style surround sound. In the […]
TONY LAWRENCE, London | Friday 11.00am. PAKISTAN and South Africa meet on Saturday in what may prove to be a dress rehearsal for the World Cup final. Mark I, however, will be as hotly contested as Mark II. South Africa, edged out by Pakistan as tournament favourites over the last few days, badly need to […]
THE International Monetary Fund on Thursday hailed Sudanese moves to reverse 20 years of economic decline but called for “broader and deeper” reforms to consolidate gains made to date. The IMF, according to a summary of recent discussions of the Sudanese economy by Fund directors, expressed satisfaction with Sudan’s implementation of IMF-monitored programs in 1997 […]
The David Gleason Column Most South African financial advisers cannot distinguish between a prospectus and marketing information, are unaware of the legal requirements relating to a prospectus, cannot read or understand financial statements, are unable to assess institutional risk and are unlikely to make intelligent inquiries about the nature of the security underlying secured debentures. […]
newsroom’ Matthew Krouse Election coverage on television was a long and protracted low-key drama. Jumping to the different polling stations with the SABC, one got a good look at South Africa in its winter garb. Sadly, we must be the worst-dressed nation on earth. Of course, the coverage wasn’t a fashion show. Rather, it was […]
Andy Capostagno Rugby We should be used to it by now, but it doesn’t make it any easier: how is it possible to pick a winner in a competition where the best players are only sporadically available? The Lions won the Vodacom Cup because, what with bottomless bank accounts and one thing and another, they […]
The discovery of minutes that expose how the National Party regime sealed the fate of Matthew Goniwe and three others could be the most important breakthrough during the past five years where discovering the truth about our grisly past is concerned. For the first time South Africans have been presented with concrete evidence that the […]
Claude Kabemba A Second Look The rebellion against the government of President Laurent Kabila in the Democratic Republic of Congo stands at the crossroads. Divisions within the rebel Rassemblement Congolais pour la Democratie (RCD) movement and within the Uganda/Rwanda rebel alliance has placed a serious question mark on the ability of the rebels to win […]
living from the soil Ian Clayton Out of a population of 180-million in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), only one in 10 has a job in the formal sector and only about 20% of the economically active population have jobs, a Norwegian researcher, Liv Torres, has established. This gives an unemployment rate of nearly […]
THURSDAY, 6.00PM: WITH the panic of a market crash abating, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange dragged itself through a very lacklustre Thursday. All key indices ended at the low-end of the trading range, with Andre Crawford-Brunt of Deutsche Morgen Grenfell describing the day as “soggy”. There was praise all round, however, for Reserve Bank governor Chris […]