MONDAY, 10.30AM FOLLOWING last week’s successful Samurai bond offer, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and his team will jet off to New York next week on a roadshow to launch a $500-million 20-year Yankee bond issue aimed at further boosting SA’s foreign exchange reserves ahead of lifting forex controls. Meanwhile, the Reserve Bank is expected to […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM A THIRD licence to operate a cellular telephone network will be issued before year’s end, SA Telecommunications Regulatory Authority chairman Nape Maepa said at the weekend. “There is no reason to wait. The licence hs been on the cards since 1993,” he said. Satra last week announced it was appointing a consulting team […]
MONDAY, 12.00NOON FIGHTING has broken out in the Congo capital of Brazzaville between armed supporters of former president Denis Sassou Nguesso and the army. Nguesso’s heavily armed supporters are reported to have taken control of the centre of he capital and surrounded key government offices. Hundreds are believed to have been killed in bitter fighting. […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM THE Food and Allied Workers’ Union said at the weekend that Premier Foods is to retrench more than 2 000 workers on June 15. A fortnight ago, 8 000 Premier workers held a one-day strike in solidarity with the affected workers, but returned to work after the company obtained a court interdict. Premier […]
MONDAY, 2.30PM THE Mpumalanga Parks Board has proposed a total ban on the hunting of captive-bred or tame lions, leopards and cheetahs following widespread public outrage at ”canned” lion hunting in the province. Releasing a draft policy document, the board, however, reiterated its support for controlled big-game hunting by insisting that if properly managed, the […]
Hazel Friedman THE ground-breaking local television series, Ghetto Diaries, has won two awards at a prestigious international media festival. Held in Geneva this week, the Rencontres Media Nord-Sud Festival (North- South Media Encounter) is an annual festival focusing on development documentaries, which alsoaims to encourage North-South relations in film and television. Out of 36 finalists […]
Richard Williams discovers a spirit that fuels the passions of players and spectators alike at Roland Garros NO ONE who visits the Stade Roland Garros for the French Open feels quite the same about any other tennis tournament again. The warmth, the light, the smells, the sublime geometry of clay-court tennis, the proximity of central […]
FRIDAY, 11.30AM BUSINESS SA, in a meeting with Labour Minister Tito Mboweni on Thursday, suggested that negotiations on the Basic Conditions of Employment Bill in the National Economic, Development and Labour Council be postponed until after October’s presidential jobs summit. The suggestion comes as BSA tries to break a deadlock between business and the Congress […]
Tamar Kahn CHANNEL CAMPUS, which launched a range of new courses last month, is one of a myriad of South African organisations specialising in distance education.However, it does so electronically, offering multimedia courses aimed at the upper secondary school and tertiary level. Each course is based on a set of videos, accompanied by workbooks. Learning […]
As the peace process drags on, the overthrow of Mobutu has handed the government in Luanda an opportunity to move in on Unita’s rich diamond fields, writes Barnaby Phillips from Luanda A FORTNIGHT of fighting in Angola’s diamond-rich, north-eastern province of Lunda Norte has raised renewed doubts about the stability of the peace-keeping process – […]