games Jon Henderson feels the Sampras factor rather than marriage is behind the decline of a moody genius PETE SAMPRAS’S favourite line from literature is from The Catcher In The Rye: “Don’t ever tell anybody anything.” Andre Agassi, Sampras’s great rival on the tennis court, is from the opposing, let-it-all- hang-out corner. The silent approach […]
LIVE MUSIC: Sam Taylor IRISH band U2’s PopMart world tour kicked off in Las Vegas last week with a stage set as spectacularly kitsch as any of the giant theme hotels that adorn the Vegas Strip. Dominated by the world’s biggest LED screen and a golden arch, like half of a McDonald’s “M”, the set […]
Gary Younge NIGERIAN art treasures are being looted from museums to supply an underground network of dealers, most of them based in London and New York. The multi-million pound trade, which contravenes a United Nations convention on the sale and smuggling of stolen artwork, has left some museums in the country virtually empty. The looting […]
South Africa stands accused of bully-boy tactics in trade with Zimbabwe and of dominating its economy, argues Richard Saunders in Harare DESPITE words of assurance from Nelson Mandela during his state visit this week that tense business relations between South Africa and Zimbabwe would be smoothed in efforts to promote greater regional economic integration, business […]
negotiations Ferial Haffajee TOUGH talking will be the order of the day as crucial wage rounds involving South Africa’s biggest employers in the mining, motor, engineering and clothing sectors get under way. “It’s going to be a difficult year for negotiations,” predicts Jackie Kelly of Andrew Levy & Associates. In its most recent quarterly bulletin […]
The imminent sale of Sun Air has brought together many black businesses. Stuart Hess looks at who is bidding BLACK economic empowerment is taking to the skies in more ways than one. Four consortiums headed by black businesses comprise half the companies bidding for Sun Air, the next parastatal up for sale. Tenders for the […]
FRIDAY, 8.30AM DEPUTY PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has asked both finance minister Trevor Manuel and Reserve Bank governor Chris Stals to send a task team to Kinshasa to help with economic recovery. Stals said yesterday that the Bank could help with the managing of bank regulations, and foreign and gold reserves. The team has not yet […]
FRIDAY, 10.30AM ONLY three consortiums, the Virgin-Bekhilanga consortium, Rethabile Comair and an unnamed consortium of Phoenix Venture Partners, Bidvest and the Women’s Investment Portfolio, remain in the race to buy parastatal Sun Air. Other preferred bidders Air France, the Sanco-Ukhozi consortium and Maru Investments have all pulled out of the bidding. It is not clear […]
Bobby Windsor, the 1974 Lions hooker, gives his view from the heart of the pack SOUTH AFRICA is a rugby country like no other. In 1974 we were hated on the field but loved off it. The welcome was a clenched fist on the one hand and back- slapping hospitality on the other. Wherever we […]
FRIDAY, 12.00NOON: SOUTH AFRICA’s Trevor Wilkinson beat Geoff Davenport of Australia in an exciting match at the MacMed World Masters in Johannesburg on Thursday. Wilkinson won the semifinal 9-5, 8-10, 9-1, 9-10, 9-6, in a match plagued by bad decisions from referee Gordon Ashby. Wilkinson will play top-seed of the 35-39 division, Ashraf Hanafi of […]