*Kolya: Czechs and balances EASTERN Europe produced some terrific films in the days when directors had to skilfully weave their way around the state censor. Yet, since the fall of communism, the former Eastern Bloc has virtually become a cinematic wasteland. The reason is clear – state subsidies dried up. This only emphasises what the […]
race Lynda Loxton SOUTH AFRICA risks falling behind in the information technology (IT) race if it fails to step up the training and education of IT users and practitioners, according to a new study. University of Cape Townacademics James Hodge and Jonathan Miller say in the latest issue of the university’s Trade and Industry Monitor […]
SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi ZIMBABWE stand alone among the leading football teams in Africa as the only one never to reach the biennial Nations Cup finals. This weekend the Warriors have another opportunity to erase 17 years of frustration when they travel to Angola needing a draw to secure a ticket to the tournament in Burkina […]
Gustav Thiel HENNIE MARAIS, Western Cape director of the South African Narcotics Bureau, is resigned to his officers doing little more than watching the drugs coming into the city, and occasionally checking the flow. They no longer bother with dagga, or even with releasing information about their successes in drug convictions. “There are 100 000 […]
Jonathan Freedland in London SO, soon a man will be able to love another man from the day he turns sweet 16 – trouble is, neither will be allowed to have a cigarette afterwards. The British government’s recent dual announcements – one proposing a lowering of the homosexual age of consent to 16, the other […]
FRIDAY, 2.00PM A COURT case in the Thabazimbi Magistarate’s Court in Northern Province on Friday may hold the key to the recent spae of assinations of National Union of Mineworkers officials at Anglo American Planinum Mines in the Northern and North-West provinces. Twenty-two suspects arrested by police in the past fortnight at Amplats’ Amandelbult mine […]
ANGLO AMERICAN’S new mining business division has been actively exploring potential projects in East Africa for the past two years, and this week the mining giant announced a tie-up with a Canadian junior, Sutton Resources, to take a majority stake in the Kabanga nickel-cobalt project in Tanzania. The mine is in the far west of […]
FRIDAY, 10.30AM THREE of the four major Johannesburg Stock Echange indices fell on Thursday, with financials the only shares to experience a small rise. Even the fall of bond yields to a new 17-month low was unable to give industrial shares a boost. As overseas investors leapt back in to the local market and local […]
Double standards: The British government has proposed changing the laws on sex between men under 18. Back home in South Africa, the anomalies remain unchanged Zackie Achmat THE unequal age of sexual consent in South Africa (16 for hetero-sexuals, 19 for lesbian and gay youths) places unjust, irrational and arbitrary burdens on lesbian and gay […]
ATHLETICS: Julian Drew DESPITE all the criticism which has been levelled at Okkert Brits for failing to deliver when it really counts, he still remains South Africa’s best chance for a gold medal at the world athletics champ- ionships which begin in Athens next week. And with the legendary Czar of the Vault Sergei Bubka […]