Car sales hit new highs in May — and Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) pushed aside previous market leader Toyota to take the lead in the passenger car market. New car sales of around 20 000 were 42 percent up on May last year, and almost 30 percent higher than April’s figure, according to figures released […]
David Campese, the world’s great non-conformist, is facing up to a giant-sized challenge RUGBY: Mick Cleary ON THE horizon the cloud of dust tells of the stampede heading his way. Up above the birds are circling, ready to pick off the carcass. As he has always done, David Campese merely watches and waits. The young […]
SOCCER: Gerald Combrinck UMTATA Bucks boss Chain Vilikazi refers to them as the unholy three, and by Sunday there will be only two left, because one of either Sundowns or Kaizer Chiefs will be out of the Coca Cola Cup. The remaining part of the pact, Orlando Pirates, face a tough task when they visit […]
CYBERSPACE is reaching deep into the heartland of power in South Africa. You can now send email messages to President Nelson Mandela and a host of ANC MPs.
THEATRE: David Le Page PSYCHODELIC Cowboy and Sister Nun is an axe-packing, bloodstirring hour of original music from a band of wild riding East Rand cowboys that would have most audiences on their feet were it not for the chains of propriety at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre. Their rock’n’roll is combined with a story that […]
Vista University is an animal with seven bodies and no head. The resignation of the university’s entire top management structure — rector, vice-rector and two registrars — in August last year has left the seven- campus institution floundering with no proper Executive functions have been taken over by a special committee of the university council. […]
Jacques Magliolo Barlows’ latest financial results highlight the benefits of a major conglomerate unbundling its assets and turning a lumbering giant into a lean and streamlined organisation. Last week the group released its interim results and showed profitability unsurpassed in the last decade. With improvements coming from almost all its operations, the refocused Barlows has […]
Alfred Nzo’s ministry stands accused of not having made the leap into the new South Africa, reports Rehana Rossouw Minister Alfred Nzo and his Department of Foreign Affairs came in for a barrage of criticism this week from the ANC alliance and academics who charged that it had failed to provide the moral leadership the […]
SINN Fein president Gerry Adams jets into South Africa next week on a high-profile visit that includes talks with President Nelson Mandela. His trip will bolster the Irish republicans in their talks with the British government over a political deal in Northern Ireland. Adams will also meet Consitutional Affairs Minister Roelf Meyer and head of […]
South Africa comes packaged to please at La Villette music festival. HAZEL FRIEDMAN reports from Paris LA VILLETTE is one of those curious cultural monuments that straddle the multiple personalities of Paris. Established during the mid-1980s, it has served as a sort of secular cathedral, injecting a modern multi- cultural spirit into a drab, immigrant […]