With the Appellate Division ruling in favour of Caxton, the Independent and Times Media groups have a fight on their hands, report Jacquie Golding-Duffy and David Shapshak TIMES MEDIA LIMITED’S (TML) management are unable to agree on the implications of the Appellate Division judgment reached in favour of printing and publishing group Caxton. The judgment, […]

Heart problems threaten to cut the career of Africa’s top footballer short, but he is determined to play again SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi WHEN Nwankwo Kanu was voted African Footballer of the Year this week his emotions would have been unusually mixed for someone following in the footsteps of Liberian legend George Weah. While the tall, […]

end accounts Andy Duffy THE Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) has been ordered to rework its year-end accounts after the auditor general uncovered glaring errors in its figures. The auditor general’s office, which is also investigating allegations of financial mismanagement at the organisation, told the IBA it would be futile to present its March 1996 figures […]

FINEART: Andrew Putter FOR just over a year now, a group of top- drawer young Cape Town artists have been working on a collaborative project, set to culminate in a mammoth installation/performance at the Castle this week. Called Sluice, the project grew out of collective interests in new ways of approaching artmaking – and shared […]

Ann Eveleth KING Goodwill Zwelithini pulled out of a consortium bidding for KwaZulu-Natal’s new private sound radio station last week because he didn’t know what he was getting into, say royal family members. Zwelithini mysteriously dropped his 5% stake and yanked his endorsement for Radio One – one of two consortiums bidding for the station […]

Suzy Bell WHETHER it’s the tender image of Katrina Thomas gathering her goats or the anxious look in Freddie Bosman’s eyes on the bus journey towards his beloved home, Riemvasmaak, after spending 20 years in the Ciskei, some pictures do speak a thousand words. Winner of a Mother Jones International Documentary Award (1993) for his […]

Omar’s failure to get any concessions from Pagad has cast doubt on his ability to hold his present positions. Rehana Rossouw reports JUSTICE Minister Dullah Omar’s failure to rein in Pagad is fuelling fears that he cannot juggle his ministerial position with his role as ANC leader in the Western Cape. Political observers believe Omar’s […]

Ken Owen joined the gathering of Afrikaners in Stellenbosch and found their fears unconvincing TO Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo and, yes, to the cadres who ravaged the townships in the Eighties, I give thanks: they have liberated me to use and enjoy Afrikaans, the only language that properly describes the landscape and the life […]

Genetically engineered vegetables may make the scientists and farmers happy – but do people want to eat them? Michael Durham reports from London AFTER years of tinkering in vast laboratories and locked greenhouses, agrochemical companies are ready to unleash their discoveries on the world: genetically changed plants and vegetables, programmed by the addition or subtraction […]