Consol is restructuring its glass operation in a drive=20 to becoming globally competitive, reports Karen=20 Packaging and rubber manufacturer Consol of Germiston=20 is undertaking a major restructuring of its glass=20 operation to become globally competitive through=20 greater throughput and better utilisation of man hours. Speaking at the annual financial results, chairman Piet=20 Neethling said a […]

The sale of a prime Telkom-owned property, apparently at a fire-sale price, has the telecommunications minister lambasting his officials, reports Stefaans Posts and Telecommunications Minister Pallo Jordan has questioned Telkom’s sale of a prestigious Cape Town Waterfront property, suggesting that the deal lost the state-owned company millions or rand. Documents in possession of the Mail […]

Clive Simpkins SOME time back a position was advertised for someone to=20 “bring Parliament to the people”. We need such a person=20 now to focus on marketing local authorities, who have=20 been all but immobilised by the impending local=20 The Greater Johannesburg Transitional Metropolitan=20 Council (TMC) intends to free up politicians for=20 election canvassing, thus […]

With a few more good performances, Claire Nitch can=20 attain her goal of a top eight ranking SQUASH: Mark Lamport-Stokes REALISM would rank high among the many qualities=20 possessed by South Africa’s number one women’s squash=20 player Claire Nitch. The 23-year-old from Gauteng, while not sacrificing a=20 burning ambition to be the very best she […]

Gaye Davis KEY recommendations of a major report, proposing sweeping changes to South Africa’s unequal schooling system, will be implemented next year, ushering in a new deal for education. Education Minister Professor Sibusiso Bengu was handed the report of the Review Committee on School Organisation, Governance and Funding on Thursday. His major challenge now will […]

FINE ART: Ian Tromp THE Sasol New Signatures Competition is open only to=20 artists who have not previously held a solo exhibition,=20 so the majority of those whose work is on exhibit at=20 the Pretoria Art Museum are students. Such exhibitions=20 are often a useful barometer of the directions in which=20 art is moving. Although […]

Cash donations made by developers to the civics organisation are to be investigated by police, writes Stefaans Brummer THE South African National Civics Organisation (Sanco) acknowledged this week its relationship with business donors was “open to manipulation” following charges that the movement had accepted bribes from developers in the Free State. Free State MEC for […]

CINEMA: Stanley Peskin MIAMI Rhapsody is a quite amusing film about the=20 related themes of married life and adultery. Love is,=20 as Louis Armstrong informs us over the credit titles,=20 “just one of those things” and the self-indulgent=20 heroine Gwynn Marcus (Sarah Jessica Parker) comes to=20 the conclusion that love, hardly ever rhapsodic, is=20 like […]

The South African porn market is thriving, with=20 new and more daring titles every month. =20 Justin Pearce took a (very) close look The only magazine that’s explicitly aimed at gay men,=20 Adonis doesn’t waste its time with articles and gives=20 you 24 pages of naked men mostly in outdoor settings,=20 proving for once and […]

The “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” is now unlikely to get under way until well into next year, according to Justice Minister Dullah Omar. Omar has told the Mail & Guardian that the “process” of selecting members of the commission would begin shortly and would “hopefully” be complete by the end of December. The commission would […]