Lynda Loxton ANOTHER black empowerment deal emerged this week when black-controlled LA Retail Stores announced it had bought branded clothing and footwear marketer Skye Products for R115,6-million. Gauteng-based Skye, best known for distributing international brands of running shoes and clothing to stores and independent retailers throughout the country for the last 32 years, will treble […]
Glynis O’ Hara GILLIAN SLOVO and I are sitting in a hotel lounge discussing her new book, Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country, when a couple walk in, throw themselves on a couch nearby and say: “Have you read Gillian Slovo’s new book? It’s really good.” The woman looks over at us and recognition […]
Gustav Thiel THE war between Cape Town’s drug lords and People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) is heading for the ballot box. Notorious gangster Rashied Staggie has announced that he will contest the 1999 elections, while Pagad is said to be forming a political party for the elections. Staggie, the twin brother of Rashaad Staggie […]
* Iran: Total trade has grown more than 25 000% since 1993, and last year stood at R5,7-billion. Main South African exports include cereals, iron, steel and machinery including nuclear equipment. Main imports are oil. Amnesty International says Iranian authorities detain thousands of political prisoners, and often punishes offenders by public flogging, amputations and executions. […]
spies Marion Edmunds THE government’s finance watchdog has provided a glimpse of the apparently pampered life of the nation’s spies. National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the South African Secret Services (SASS) agents enjoy plush, furnished accommodation. Employees have also allegedly been leasing their own properties to their agencies, and there are plans for a special […]
Rehana Rossouw THE Mail & Guardian and the Freedom of Expression Institute have instituted legal proceedings against the SANDF in an attempt to open a Cape court martial to the public. Staff Sergeant Herman Phieffer and Corporal Desmond Booysen have been charged with alleging that their commanding officer was racist and with leaking sensitive information […]
IT has been the best of weeks and the worst of weeks for South African culture. While thugs were meting out their own special breed of cultural elitism at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival in Oudtshoorn, another group of quietly dedicated cultural workers was busy launching the most important arts body yet established in […]
THE ANGELLA JOHNSON INTERVIEW HANDS up anyone who has never told a lie. No takers, eh! That comes as no surprise. ”We are all liars,” says Bob Sienaert. ”The purpose of education is to teach us how to lie and get away with it.” He should know; his business is to catch liars. Sienaert is […]
might RUGBY: Steve Morris NO one in his right mind would believe that Louis Luyt is an easy man to take on in a head-to-head battle. More than one opponent has tried. None have yet succeeded in ousting the man who sits at the administrative helm of the game of rugby in this country. Brian […]
Anthony Kunda in Lusaka ACCORDING to a witness in the Zambian Supreme Court case to decide whether President Frederick Chiluba was eligible to be elected last November, Chiluba was expelled from school in the equivalent of standard seven for smoking marijuana. This was one of the details about his personal life that have so far […]