The IBA’s 120-strong staff have issued a unanimous vote of no confidence in their boss Harris Gxaweni, reports Mungo Soggot THE Independent Broadcasting Authority’s (IBA) top officials face sacking chief executive officer Harris Gxaweni or defying the rest of their staff by keeping him. The authority’s staff representative committee, speaking for 120 staff members, this […]
Jonathan Ancer ABDI Hussein (30) grabs a fistful of spaghetti and, with great skill, swings it into his mouth. Hussein is one of the 3 000 Somali refugees who have come to South Africa since their country erupted into civil war six years ago. I meet Hussein in a hotel that is unlikely to be […]
AN imprisoned Chinese journalist, Gao Yu, has been awarded this year’s Unesco/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. The $25 000 prize is named after an assassinated Colombian journalist. Awarded for the first time this year it is timed for May 3, observed annually as World Press Freedom Day. Gao Yu (53) began as a reporter […]
FRIDAY, 8.00AM: A PROTEST meeting in Bushbuckridge, Northern Province, turned violent when constitutional affairs minister Mohammed Valli Moosa failed to arrive to address the crowd. Police shot and seriously injured four people afer the crowd had erected barricades and burnt a police vehicle. Bushbuckridge is a disputed area, given to the Northern Province despite calls […]
FRIDAY, 12.00NOON: A PUTTING infringement set veteran Argentinian Eduardo Romero back two shots in the Italian Open yesterday offered the first day’s lead to South African Retief Goosen. Goosen ended the first round on six-under par 66, two shots ahead of the Argentinian. Goosen defied flu to shoot his 66, putting him one point ahead […]
The Zairean rebels’ decision to jettison De Beers has placed the diamond cartel on an even shakier footing, reports Chris Gordon from London LAURENT KABILA’s Zairean Rebel Alliance for Democratic Forces has terminated De Beers’s contract to buy the output of the country’s diamond parastatal Miba (Socit Minire de Bakwanga). This blow to De Beers’s […]
COLOMBIAN PRES DROPS IN COLOMBIAN president and chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement Ernesto Samper Pizano arrived at Johannesburg International Airport on Friday morning. Pizano was met at the airport by Foreign Affairs Minister Alfred Nzo, who later left for Pointe-Noire, Congo, to be with President Nelson Mandela to meet Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko. A […]
HAZEL FRIEDMAN reports on ‘wunderkind’ artist Alexandra Nechita, due to show in SA She has been described as Mozart with a paintbrush and a potential Picasso. Her paintings go for as much as $125 000. And at the rate they’re selling, Alexandra Nechita will be a multi-millionaire before the age of 12. The most recognised […]
Jacquie Golding-Duffy British Telecommunications (BT) took up the ultimate marketing challenge when it chose to be the title sponsor of the BT Global Challenge – a 10-month journey by 14 identical 20m steel yachts around four continents. Seen by many media observers and industry players as the most ambitious “relationship marketing” programme in the world, […]
Bringing back Neil Tovey is the obvious answer to South Africa’s defensive problems, but it may not be the best solution SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi THE person who coined the well-worn phrase that football is a funny game was actually being quite serious as anyone who watched South Africa defeat Zaire in the World Cup would […]