SOCCER: Lungile Madywabe ORLANDO PIRATES’ hopes of being the first team from South Africa to feature in the finals of the Africa Champions Cup will be determined by the next 180 minutes of competition — starting on Saturday against Express of Uganda at the FNB stadium and culminating in two weeks time in a return […]

Charles Nupen, ace labour mediator, in The Mark Gevisser Profile When Lili Nupen, a Standard Six pupil at Roedean, had to do a research project into her relatives, she chose two lawyers. The first was her great-uncle, Buster Nupen, a Springbok cricket captain in the 1930s and an illustrious attorney. The second was her father, […]

Karen Harverson The Department of Public Works will set aside an as yet unspecified percentage of contracts for small black emerging businesses. This is part of an initiative by the Public Works and the Department of Finance to reform procurement policies to give small businesses access to the public sector market. A meeting will be […]

The Economist magazine has devoted a lengthy article to Anglo American’s staunch advocacy of conglomeration, which it points out is long out of fashion in business schools and American boardrooms. The Economist reports the reaction of Anglo chairman Julian Ogilvie Thomson to the 20 percent or so disparity between Anglo’s net asset value and the […]

Mozambique’s rivers all originate elsewhere — and by the time they get to the drought-ravaged country, they are almost useless. Justin Arenstein reports Mozambican goodwill towards South Africa is drying up –with a growing clamour that South Africa is responsible for that country’s increasingly parched crops and dwindling rivers. Not even a flying visit to […]

Theatre: Marc Devenish IF you can’t resist a clever couplet, and go weak on witnessing an eloquent epigram, award-winning American playwright David Hirson’s play La Bete, at the Nico Arena in Cape Town, will provide you with a lifetime’s supply of both. If you ever hear another, it may, in fact, be too soon. Whatever […]

Neil Bierbaum Newspapers are finding it difficult to build black readership in the new South Africa. Despite the demand by advertisers to reach the powerful black consumer market, newspapers seem unable to deliver. A study of the All Media and Product Survey (Amps) figures for the past five years reveals that black readership of newspaper […]

Despite the recent strikes, local industrial unrest is on the decline, reports Meshack Mabogoane Though the latest nurses’ and municipal workers’ strikes have unleashed intense emotions and caused public disturbances, this year’s figures show industrial unrest to be at its lowest in five years. “The impression of industrial chaos is more a reaction to the […]