CRICKET: Jon Swift KRISH MACKERDHUJ and the United Cricket Board (UCB) he=20 heads are faced with a problem shared with the majority=20 of nations in the cricket-playing world. It is simply this: how to fill the empty stands over=20 five long days of a Test match. “People had become too=20 used to the one-day game […]
This weekend’s IFP national conference will look at ways for the party to consolidate its power in KwaZulu/Natal, report Ann Eveleth and Mehlo Mvelase The rumour mills have been peculiarly quiet this week in the run-up to the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) national conference opening in Ulundi tonight. Party sources poured cold water on earlier […]
Anne Eveleth Pietermaritzburg Mayor Rob Haswell’s call this week for the Durban-Maritzburg corridor to become South Africa’s 10th province — divided by soft boundaries from the rest of conflict-ridden KwaZulu/Natal — has struck at the heart of the incessant demarcation wrangles stalling Durban’s local government process. Won by the African National Congress in last year’s […]
M&G reporters After battling to integrate former enemies into South Africa’s National Defence Force, the SANDF is now facing an even bigger challenge: how to demobilise 30 000 soldiers. Jakkie Cilliers, Director of the Institute of Defence Policy (IDP), says it was a mistake to integrate before demobilising. “Now, after they have decided who joins […]
Justin Pearce African Satellite Entertainment Corporation (Asec), the dark horse of satellite broadcasting in South Africa, is to announce a broadcast package next week which could pose a serious challenge to rivals MultiChoice. There is speculation that Asec has secured South African broadcast rights to Rupert Murdoch’s Sky TV — which offers a wide variety […]
Marion Edmunds President Nelson Mandela’s office has intervened in the selection of Land Claims Court judges in a bid to include women on the shortlist of nominees. Presidential spokesman Parks Mankahlana confirmed this week that the office would be asking the Judicial Services Commission to discuss new candidates, despite the fact that public hearings to […]
Reg Rumney The South African Chamber of Business (Sacob) has=20 cautioned against bringing in “dedicated” taxes and=20 levies such the one suggested to fund a new health=20 Opposition to such taxes is set out in the chamber’s=20 submission on corporate tax to the Katz Tax Commission,=20 released this week. “The whole rationale for dedicated taxes […]
The Currie Cup is wide open and the provincial teams=20 have made some interesting changes in their quest for=20 RUGBY: Jon Swift ANYONE who thought that in the afterglow of the World=20 Cup this season’s Currie Cup competition would have all=20 the attributes of flat beer, missed the mark by a wide=20 The surprise sparkle […]
Leon Perlman Despite Post and Telecommunications Minister Pallo=20 Jordan’s nyet to allowing competition with state=20 telecommunications monopoly Telkom, insiders say it’s=20 now not a matter of whether, but rather when and how=20 The recently released Green Paper on Telecommunications=20 is the initial step to formulating a White Paper on=20 telecommunications policy and eventual legislation,=20 which […]
RUGBY: Frankie Deges IT WAS as a result of the vision of a handful of=20 administrators from Argentina, New Zealand, Australia=20 and South Africa (ANZASA) that the inaugural Under-21=20 southern hemisphere tournament was born. Argentina, the instigator of the idea, was given the=20 go-ahead to stage the first event and, midway through=20 it, the concept […]