MONDAY, 10.00AM: CROWD-pleasers Kaizer Chiefs drew 1-1 with Qwa Qwa Stars in the crowded Northern Free State Rugby Stadium in Welkom on Sunday, in their Castle Premier League match. Amakhosi had a couple of near-misses in the first half, thanks to the lacklustre performance of striker Mark Williams. When Williams did get a shot into […]
MONDAY, 12.30PM THE World Bank on Friday approved its first loan to SA in over 30 years, awarding $36-million in credit to help small businesses compete in the global marketplace. The $46-million loan is repayable over 15 years, after a three-year grace period. SA’s last World Bank loan was awarded in 1966 for transport and […]
MONDAY, 4.30PM AS preparations get under way for the ‘media truth commission’, the Freedom of Expression Institute on Monday handed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission a report which says that agreements between the Newspaper Press Union and police and military establishments led to collusion between media management and the apartheid-era government. FXI leaders told a […]
MONDAY, 10.30AM: TONGA beat an Eastern Province Invitation team 34-19 in their second South African tour match on Sunday, scoring five tries, three conversions and a penalty. At half-time Tonga led 15-5, and kept going strong to 27-5 at one stage. The EP forwards tried to patch things up — Cecil du Plessis and Willie […]
MONDAY, 12.30PM GENCOR is busy with plans to separate its gold and non-gold interests, involving the division of its base metals and precious metals operation with non-gold interests to be transferred to a new company around London-registered subsidiary Billiton International. In a bid to raise between 600-million and 1,2-billion to fund international expansion, base-metal interests […]
Marion Edmunds THE government is to be urged to set up a special inquiry into district surgeons and health professionals who betrayed their ethical codes in complicity with apartheid authorities. The call will be made at health hearings at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission next month and will come from among the 30 organisations making […]
`ZAMBUK. My grandmother used to put that on everything,” a friend said to me when I told her about a new TV campaign for the balm. Let’s face it, most adverts for an affordable green medicated ointment show a mother tending to her kid – not black and white images of some sexy naked woman […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM The last issue of the New Nation weekly newspaper appeared today, ending the 11-year career of one of the few South African newspapers to be black owned, black edited, and almost entirely staffed by blacks. New Nation was launched in early 1986 by the SA Catholic Bishops Conference, and quickly rose to prominence […]
Andrew Worsdale AT the age of 73 and with 54 years in the industry, Italo Bernicchi is a veteran of South African cinema. He started in movies as a cinematographer, shooting second unit on the original version of Cry, the Beloved Country, made by Zoltan Korda. After that he put down the camera and took […]
David Sharrock A CAPE game reserve will play host this weekend to Northern Ireland’s main politicians in a peace conference just days before talks on the province’s future resume in Belfast. David Trimble, the Ulster Unionist leader, Sinn Fein negotiator Martin McGuinness, and Peter Robinson, deputy leader of the Democratic Unionists, are all understood to […]