SAILING: Jonathan Spencer Jones THE BY Global Challenge – billed as the world’s toughest yacht race – got off to a fast and furious start in driving rain and high winds in Southampton on Saturday, after some four years of preparation and training. The 30 000-mile race, which will last about 10 months, involves 14 […]

Lynda Loxton BANKS and other financial institutions could soon be expected to play a more active role in cracking down on money laundering in South Africa. Although no hard statistics are available about the extent of the problem, Justice Minister Dullah Omar warned delegates at a conference in Cape Town this week that nobody should […]

There is little new proof about who assassinated Olof Palme, despite various accusations, reports Peta Thornycroft THE Swedish government is no closer to proving a South African link in the assassination of prime minister Olof Palme than it was when he was gunned down one night on a Stockholm sidewalk 10 years ago. Almost every […]

Marion Edmunds MINISTER of Broadcasting and Communications Jay Naidoo is considering rushing through an amendment to the Broadcasting Act to allow the government to keep some or all of the money raised from the sale of the SABC’s commercial radio stations, according to sources in the industry. The SABC is hoping to raise more than […]

clean Eddie Koch AT least six police brigadiers and colonels, named in the trial of Eugene de Kock, have broken ranks and approached the truth commission about the possibility of applying for amnesty as they are disillusioned with the way the generals are handling their submission to the organisation. The truth body has also taken […]

Gaye Davis MOVES to convene a summit between the African National Congress and its alliance partners, the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), have been given fresh impetus by a call for such a parley from one of the country’s most powerful trade unions. The call – […]

SOCCER:Andrew Muchineripi LAST season’s losing finalists Pretoria City (now Supersport United) are no more, but defending champions Cape Town Spurs should have little difficulty in advancing to the quarterfinals of the Bob Save Superbowl when they meet little known Tembisa-based first division side Classics, at the Athlone Stadium on Friday night. There is little liklehood […]

Uplink Broadcasting has been granted a licence, but will advertisers support it? Jacquie Golding-Duffy reports on industry views ADVERTISERS are ambivalent about the new Christian satellite network expected to start broadcasting at year end. Uplink Broadcasting Limited, a group of about 500 businessmen, has been granted a temporary licence by the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) […]

TELEVISION: Charl Blignaut WHEN MTV, the ever-burgeoning 24-hour music channel unleashed their cartoon slacker brats Beavis and Butthead on an unsuspecting US audience, little did they know that the two braindead greaseheads would end up eating Bart Simpson – shorts, ratings and all. Serving as VJs (video jocks: those who introduce music videos on TV) […]

Julian Drew THE row over the Sepeng contract is merely the latest in a series of controversies which have dogged Athletics South Africa (ASA), most of them centring on the chief executive officer of the federation, Bernard Rose. The former athletes’ agent and sales and marketing manager for a sports shoe company was appointed on […]