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 […]
Anne Eveleth A northern KwaZulu/Natal Crime Intelligence Service officer admitted knowledge of Stratcom (Strategic Communications) under oath in the Ladysmith Regional Court this week. Ladysmith CIS commander Colonel Rowan Hendricks was testifying under cross-examination by defence attorney Colin Heads in the trial of five right wingers alleged to have plotted to poison water supplies in […]
Gaye Davis JUST two years ago, the very idea of a Socialist International (SI) meeting in South Africa would have been inconceivable — so this week’s two-day meeting in Cape Town of the council of the world federation of social democratic, socialist and labour movements in Cape Town was richly symbolic. That it took place […]
Eddie Koch reports on a commission of inquiry into witchcraft killings in the Northern Province CASE 1: Tshavhungwe approached Edward and asked him to find a living person from whom they could remove some parts. A friend of Edward’s suggested they should get one Nthatheni Negota (a young woman in her twenties), who used to […]
CINEMA: Digby Ricci ‘THE pictures painted on the inner eyelids of infants … are not in=20 paste,” Edna St Vincent Millay memorably understates in her=20 poem Intense and Terrible, I Think, Must Be the Loneliness of=20 Infants, and the most impressive achievement of Peter Jackson’s=20 remarkable Heavenly Creatures is the union of frenzy,=20 sensuousness, picturebook […]