In an intriguing Coca-Cola Cup final clash, the=20 Orlando Pirates attackers come up against the=20 unyielding Wits defenders SOCCER: Nelson Rashava CAN sheer skill overcome motivation, commitment and=20 perseverance on the big occasion? Will Orlando Pirates=20 regain their confidence and verve after a drab display=20 against Bloemfontein Celtic? Can underdogs Wits=20 University sustain their dominance […]
Karen Harverson South Africa will not accept foreign aid unless it can=20 afford to finance the follow-through infrastructure or=20 it will end up like the rest of Africa — full of half- built hospitals and unfinished roads, said Finance=20 Minister Chris Liebenberg.=20 Speaking at a recent business breakfast, Liebenberg=20 said South Africa had a reputation […]
Gauteng’s Security MEC Jessie Duarte is ready to defy the Constitution — if that’s what it takes to halt the spiral of taxi warfare, reports Jonathan Ancer Warring taxi drivers were warned this week that they would be denied bail if arrested. Speaking at a conference of the South African Long Distance Taxi Association (Saldta), […]
Bruce Cohen Government is disorganised, if the stationery used by various cabinet ministers is anything to go by. Every ministry which responded to our letter has its own unique letterhead in terms of design, typography, logo, choice of colours and paper. The logos range from the extravagant gold or silver foiled coat of arms (Finance […]
The work at this year’s Grahamstown Festival rejoiced=20 in cultural freedom — and shied away from socio- political issues, writes Justin Pearce FOUR African men speaking algemeen beskaafte Afrikaans,=20 while a rainbow-nation audience convulses with laughter=20 as they impersonate traffic cops, tsotsis, and the Paul=20 Kruger statue. It all adds up to a vision of […]
Eastern Transvaal Premier Mathews Phosa, in The Mark Gevisser Profile When Mathews Phosa was at high-school in Acornhoek in the early 1970s, he and a group of students were given a chilling ultimatum after disrupting a Parents’ Day event: they could choose between expulsion or being stripped naked and lashed with a hippo-hide sjambok. “Our […]
The Mail & Guardian recently wrote to cabinet ministers asking an innocuous question. The replies, or lack of them, were rather enlightening … Minister of Public Enterprises Stella Sigcau is the winner of the Mail & Guardian’s first Cabinet Efficiency Test (CET). The CET was conducted to measure the speed and competence with which cabinet […]
Justin Pearce THE boy whose designer tackies went up in flames=20 decided things had gone a bit too far. He’d come along=20 to an honest techno rave, was minding his own business=20 at 120 beats per minute, when this flaming tennis ball=20 came rolling across the floor, reducing R500 worth of=20 footwear to a charred […]
Rocky’s on a roll, and he’s doing his damnedest to shake off the moss of his past, reports Stefaans BrUmmer ROCKY MALEBANE-METSING — coup maker, would-be provincial premier, ANC ally turned thorn — has reinvented his role in politics. The vehicle for the emergence of the new Rocky is the “triple-P”, his People’s Progressive Party, […]
Chemical giant Hoechst SA’s managing director, Reinhard=20 Traub, speaks to Aspasia Karras Reinhard Traub, managing director of chemical company=20 Hoechst SA, which went public last week, had a long=20 career within Hoechst’s multinational network before=20 coming to South Africa in 1989. He has a cosmopolitan air which he attributes to a=20 deep-seated appreciation for each […]