It’s not Independence Day that’s set the record for the longest-running movie in Durban. It’s Raja Hindustani – one of a crop of Bollywood hits. SUZYBELL bought a ticket I CAN see the lure – it’s pure disco. Okay I can’t understand a word of Hindi, and the acting is quite appalling, but there’s a […]
FRIDAY, 11.30AM SOUTH Africa’s first quarter current account deficit widened to R1,9-billion from only R100-million in the last quarter of last year, largely due to an unexpected drop in exports, the Reserve Bank said on Thursday in its Quarterly Review. The figures are being taken as bad news for economic growth, given that the rand’s […]
FRIDAY, 1.00PM: THE South African under-20 soccer side, United Warriors, lost their fixture against Brazil 2-0 in the World Youth Cup in Kuching, Malaysia on Thursday. The South Africans put up a classy defence and held off the Brazilians for all of the first half, but then two quick goals early in the second half […]
controls lifted Madeleine Wackernagel COME July 2, the markets will hopefully breathe a collective sigh of relief and wonder what all the fuss was about. Granted, the rand has taken a bit of a knock but there are no signs of panic as yet. There has been some speculative dollar buying in anticipation of the […]
There is a growing gulf between what is important to those at the top of the police force and those at the bottom, reports Tangeni Amupadhi after two weeks at a police station CONSTABLE Mbekeni Mthetwa died for a car. Minutes before his shift was to end on the evening of May 26, the 34-year-old […]
It appears that Eugene Terre’Blanche has learnt little from his sentencing but he still enjoys antagonising the press. Angella Johnson reports I HAD been told that Eugene Terre’Blanche would not speak to a black journalist. Maybe the prospect of spending six years in a multi-racial prison had softened the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging leader, for not only […]
FRIDAY, 3.00PM THE Truth and Reconciliation says it cannot accede to National Party demands that its chairman archbishop Desmond Tutu apologise for certain comments and that deputy chairman Alex Boraine resign, and has called on the NP to iron out its difficulties with the commission through negotiation. After discussing a Nat threat to take the […]
Glynis O’Hara GOVERNMENT regulation in the music industry can reach a point where it interferes with the market, but artists must be nurtured before people start throwing “international standards” at them. So says Sue Gillard, general manager of Ausmusic, in South Africa to address a series of seminars organised by the Music Industry Development Initiative […]
More active policy and less macro-economic theology is the only way to get South Africa on to agrowth path, argues the SACP’s Jeremy Cronin A friend in the finance ministry of a West African state once described a visit from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Meeting with the ministry, the IMF official hauled out his […]
Danielle James WINNING an endurance event is an achievement in anyone’s book, but getting to the top and staying there, year after year against all odds and changing circumstances, takes one from the realm of the possible to the impossible. Equestrian star Graham Winn is a man who operates in the realm of the impossible. […]