MONDAY, 11.30AM ACCORDING to the latest Reserve Bank Quarterly Report, real fixed investment by local authorities and parastatals showed healthy growth in the first quarter of this year, suggesting that infrastructure growth based on the Reconstruction and Development Programme is getting under way. The Bank’s figures ahow that public corporations increased investment by an annualised […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM: MARIUS CORBETT scored another world championship qualifying mark in the javelin event at the Southern Region Athletics championships in Durban on Sunday, with a personal best of 83,56m. Corbett has secured a place on the plane to Athens for the world championships in August, but things are not as certain for Hestrie Storbeck, […]
MONDAY, 8.00AM: WITH injuries to several key players, a demoralised ‘Bok team face a British Lions team determined to win again in Durban on Saturday to clinch the test series. The Lions won 25-16 over the Springboks at Newlands on Saturday. The Bok team will be under immense pressure to perform, with the prospect ahead […]
MONDAY, 4.00PM MILITIA loyal to former Congolese dictator Denis Sassou Nguesso fired heavy weapons at the parliament in Brazzaville on Monday, after sporadic fighting resumed in the Congo capital on Sunday. Violating a ceasefire, the rebels are firing to prevent the swearing-in of the constitutional council, which is to decide whether elections scheduled for July […]
MONDAY, 12.00 NOON: ANDREW MATABOLA made another successful defence of his South African featherweight title, after a fifth-round technical knockout win over challenger Terrence Nkosi, to win the Old Buck championship belt at Nasrec outside Johannesburg on Sunday. Nkosi didn’t put up much of a fight – he was knocked down twice in the fourth […]
A newspaper report that tied a top band to an audience uprising got it hopelessly wrong, reports MARIA McCLOY WHILE one edition of the Sunday Times (the one aimed at the paler natives) last weekend led with a story and picture detailing the recovery of the South African Everest expedition photographer Bruce Herrod’s camera and […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM The free-spending Independent Broadcasting Authority has a R3,8-million deficit on last year’s budget and is set to spend R9-million in excess of this year’s budget, according to a report by auditors Deloitte & Touche. Earlier this year, IBA CEO Harris Gxaweni was suspended for failing to institute financial controls, and five of the […]
Tom Hibbert on Abel Ferrara IT was four years ago that I first set out to interview Abel Ferrara, the “maverick” film director whose talent to shock seems unparalleled. His Bad Lieutenant – in which Harvey Keitel plays a corrupt copper who is coked to the gills, given to masturbating in public and having writhing […]
DJ Shado Twala in the 15-minute interview. By CHARL BLIGNAUT Charl Blignaut: Hey, what on earth are you doing in Cape Town? Shado Twala: I’m trying to fix a plug. I’ll probably electrocute myself halfway through this phone call. CB: There goes your future in radio. ST: And my baby’s, most likely. CB: How old’s […]
FRIDAY, 3.00PM ANGOLA’S Unita rebel movement, apparently preparing to return to war with the Angolan government in the north of the country, is receiving war matriel from South Africa, according to reports by the Institute for Security Studies. Institute senior researcher Jakkie Potgieter said that during filed trips last November and in March, he saw […]