air RUGBY:Andy Capostagno IT might have been a stupid tour to lay on after the busiest season ever, but at least it has started in the right place. Isolated pockets of Argentina are aware that the world champions are in their backyard, but while a few players are carrying muscle injuries, there are not many […]

The mining industry has failed to implement seven-day working on a broad basis, reports Fay Davids CONTINUOUS mining operations, long mooted as a lifeline for the mining industry, have proved less successful than hoped. The principle that mines would move to seven-day operations – or full calender operations (Fulco) – was finally agreed between management […]

THEATRE: Andrew Wilson IF governance, current ideology and politics in Britain are supposed to be that society’s expression of its ideals and values, playwright David Hare is a disappointed man. Writing in 1991, he maintained theatre was in a unique position to illustrate “an age in which men’s ideals and men’s practice bear no relation […]

ops THE introduction of continuous operations at Johannesburg Consolidated Investment’s HJ Joel gold mine played a major part in pulling the Free State operation back from the brink. Human resources director Andre Geldenhuys says Fulco has led to a 20% jump in employees on core operations – an additional 400 jobs – improved productivity and […]

HAZEL FRIEDMAN previews Johnny Golightly’s latest collection called Love: A Retrospective WHAT do you do when the romance goes out of your relationship? “You put on your clothes and go home.” Those words are familiar to all of us who’ve gone looking for love in all the wrong beds. But to artist John Anthony Boerma, […]

The South Africans lost the vital match and the Titan Cup, but they can take comfort from the fact that one-day matches are quickly forgotten while Test matches are the ones that are remembered CRICKET:V Roger Prabasarkar AS magnificent as South Africa’s form was in the Titan Cup, although they fell at the final hurdle, […]

Lynda Loxton AFTER months of exhaustive negotiations, three important South African trade agreements are firming up and could be concluded in the first half of 1997. Although separate, the three are also closely linked and will affect each other in vital ways which will, hopefully, benefit not only South Africa but the region as a […]

Rehana Rossouw HAROLD WILLIAMS was shot dead while carrying three dead chickens to his squatter home near Durbanville, outside Cape Town. T he chickens had been dumped by nearby chicken factories and were due to be burned. Williams, the father of two children aged 16 and 13, was shot as a trespasser while walking home […]

Andy Duffy FIRST NATIONAL BANK (FNB) has given ousted managing director Barry Swart a pay-off barely different to the salary he would have earned had he not been fired. The bank, which released its year-end results this week, is refusing to disclose terms of the settlement which were agreed to in September when Swart left […]

The flamboyant socialite and claimed friend of African National Congress leaders is being investigated for `illegal possession’ of unwrought gold worth millions.Stefaans Brmmer reports PAUL EKON, the flamboyant young millionaire who claims African National Congress leaders as friends, is being investigated by police for his possible involvement in a gold- smuggling racket which a Supreme […]