FRIDAY, 10.00AM: WORLD soccer governing body Fifa turned down the SA Department of Sports’ bid to financially assist Zaire. Zaire requested help from the South African Football Association earlier this week, asking for R1,1-million to help the team finish their World Cup qualification programme. Safa submitted a proposal to Fifa, but were told it would […]
With the passing of the final TRC amnesty deadline, there have been many surprising revelations.
On Saturday Ruud Gullit (right) leads Chelsea out to face Middelsborough in the FA Cup final. But as manager he has another goal: to prove a point to those in his homeland who dismissed him as an ego in boots SOCCER: Jim White JUST before a recent match at Stamford Bridge, London home of Chelsea […]
THE response to the publication of Washington Post correspondent Keith Richburg’s book Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa, which provides a dramatic depiction of the suffering and brutality of our continent, has been heated and acrimonious. Though this extract first appeared in the Post two years ago, the fury of the debate has […]
SUTTNER IN SWEDEN RAYMOND SUTTNER, chairman of parliament’s foriegn affairs committee and a vociferious proponent of an “ethical” foreign policy, has been appointed ambassador to Sweden. Sheila Sisulu, director of World Wide Africa Investment Holdings, has been appointed consul general to New York. MEYER MISSES MEETING MEYER-WATCHERS concerned with which way the National Party’s former […]
Millions of people camped in informal settlements are transforming the country’s industrial heartland. Mungo Soggot and Tangeni Amupadhi report on the urban time bomb THEY often strike in the early hours of a cold winter’s morning. Groups of men armed with bags of chalk and a flag assemble on empty land. They mark out plots […]
The women played some strokes of genius but there were not many spectactors to witness them GOLF:Mark Lamport-Stokes LAST week’s South African women’s amateur golf championships at Killarney Golf Club highlighted two factors: this country possesses women golfers of a high quality but the sport still struggles to attract the galleries. Immaculate Killarney in Johannesburg […]
Anticipating International Museums Day on Sunday May 18, STEPHEN GRAY visits the African Window THE new African Window – part of a developing belt or mall of museums in downtown Pretoria – is the first suitable home there has ever been for that city’s vast Museum of Culture. Six exhibit spaces are already up, in […]
Three years have passed since the inception of the RDP. Two writers consider how it is faring today Hein Marais THE Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) debate has become a pantomime, a rehearsal of predictable affirmations and affectations, gripes and allegations. Issuing from the government comes the cheery mantra that the RDP remains the cornerstone […]
Employee share schemes offer much hope, yet signify very little in real terms for workers, writes Asghar Adelzadeh of the NIEP in the seventh of a series on economic policy EMPLOYEE Stock Ownership Plans (Esops) first rose to prominence in South Africa in 1987. After a blaze of publicity and debate, all was quiet until […]