Coaches of South African teams don’t have it easy, but coaching Nigeria’s Super Eagles is even harder SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi PERHAPS there are more difficult assignments than coaching the Nigerian national football team. Swimming a crocodile-infested river or walking blindfolded across a minefield spring to mind, but the list is pretty short. So when former […]
The selectors are right to bring in some young blood against the Australians, but they also need the coolness of experience in the heat of battle CRICKET:Jon Swift IN times of crisis, it is a very human response to bring in the strength and exuberance of youth. Here, you feel, is the next link in […]
Gustav Thiel THE tobacco industry has been unanimous in its condemnation of the 52% increase in excise duty on cigarettes, saying it “is yet another punitive increase which discriminates against a third of the country’s adults”. In his address to Parliament on Wednesday, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said “substantial increases in the excise duties on […]
Ali Phosa is being investigated in connection with the disappearance of about R500 000 of RDP funds. Ann Eveleth reports STATE-OWNED port operator Portnet is investigating alleged mismanagement of Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) funds by the brother of Mpumalanga Premier Matthew Phosa. The parastatal said this week it wanted Ali Phosa to provide receipts […]
Lynda Loxton FINANCE MINISTER Trevor Manuel this week took the bit between his teeth and announced a sweeping relaxation of exchange controls, much to the delight of the markets. “The changes in the exchange control regime … are profound,” Manuel said in his Budget address on Wednesday. In a joint statement with Reserve Bank governor […]
tangible benefits Lynda Loxton IT could take 10 to 15 years for the government’s strategy to promote small and medium-sized enterprises to start paying off in tangible terms, Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said this week. Replying to the debate on the parliamentary trade and industry committee’s special report on small business finance, […]
Marion Edmunds THE Presidential Review Commission, created a year ago to help in the reform of the public service, was set up for failure and should be abolished, one of its own members says. Professor Fanie Cloete, of the School of Public Management at the University of Stellenbosch, has accused the government of manipulating the […]
Jacquie Golding-Duffy THE Daily Dispatch’s circulation has grown in leaps and bounds, thrusting this small East London-based player into the ring with some of the big boys of print media. Gavin Stewart (54), who took over the newspaper’s helm three years ago, has stealthily changed its format and content into an explosive formula which has […]
The hunt is on for informants in the ANC, report Ann Eveleth, Rehana Rossouw and Peta Thornycroft THE African National Congress is sitting on information linking one of its prominent provincial members of Parliament in KwaZulu-Natal to the former South African Security Police. The allegations about the MPP first surfaced in 1994 following the death […]
Chris Taylor THERE was a time when clubs in Rio de Janeiro needed look no further than the nearest side street, car park, beach or backyard for the next crop of football talent. Young players seemed to sprout like the weeds in the wasteground where they would hone their skills until it was too dark […]