The Housewares Group has startled the investment community with its exceptional results, reports Jacques STORES-LISTED Housewares Group’s latest financial results took the investment community by complete surprise last week. While recent market focus lay in institutional and stockbrokers’ attempts at resurrecting investor interest in the 10-cent-a-share, debt-ridden W&A, little attention was directed at this company’s […]
The World Bank’s aid for the world’s poorest countries is under attack. Reg Rumney reports The International Development Association (IDA), the arm of the World Bank which provides almost free loans to the poorest countries in the world, could be in trouble. The IDA provides concessional loans — typically 40 years repayment, no interest, and […]
Gaye Davis THIS WEEK’S lightning-fast passage of a Bill allowing=20 for traditional leaders to be paid by central=20 government strikes at the heart of the Inkatha Freedom=20 Party’s political control over KwaZulu/Natal chiefs. The Remuneration of Traditional Leaders Bill was=20 whisked through the Senate and the National Assembly in=20 two days this week, with the […]
Dr Hillary Southall Reaction to the Health Plan put forward by Dr Jonathan=20 Broomberg and Dr Olive Shisana to restructure the=20 National Health System for universal primary health=20 care has been cautious and somewhat non-committal.=20 Editorials such as those in last week’s Mail Guardian, for instance, have not done justice to this=20 ambitious, bold and […]
A little-known struggle for independence continues in=20 West Africa — and South Africa has strange links to=20 it. Ann Eveleth reports the presidential inauguration of Nelson Mandela on May=20 10 last year was heralded as the end of colonialism for=20 a beleaguered continent, but nobody seemed to notice=20 that one distinguished guest was celebrating a […]
Author Modikwe Dikobe, in The Mark Gevisser Profile There was something both surreal and appropriate about=20 the fact that octogenarian author Modikwe Dikobe was to=20 give a walking tour of his old Doornfontein haunts on=20 the morning of the Rugby World Cup final. He had been=20 brought down from his home in the Northern Transvaal=20 […]
Four weeks of trauma and triumph culminated in South Africa emerging as champions, now they have to face up to that challenge, writes Jon Swift THE euphoria will take a while to evaporate into the realities of everyday life but the bitter aftertaste of Louis Luyt’s ill-timed attempts at humour will probably take a bit […]
The gerrymandering of municipal boundaries will help=20 the ANC win control, but hinder redistribution, argues=20 Dr Mark Swilling SOUTH Africa’s first non-racial local government=20 elections could be held up if the boundary disputes in=20 the Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg metros are not=20 Unravelling the issues in the Johannesburg metro may=20 reveal what underlies the […]
Lynda Loxton Sharp differences remain between the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and the Financial Services Board (FSB) over the planned restructuring of the JSE in January next year. JSE president Roy Andersen, backed up by chairman Francois Tolken and legal adviser Peter Leon, made it clear to the parliamentary finance committee that they thought the […]
CLASSICAL MUSIC: Coenraad Visser AS if to compensate for the All Blacks’ defeat on the rugby field, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa conquered all with an .astounding performance at the Sun City Superbowl. Even with paltry support from the National Symphony Orchestra (in this repertoire, why use a poor radio orchestra while an excellent opera orchestra […]