Ivo Correia South Africa will kick off World Environment Week by=20 hosting the United Nations Environment Program’s Global 500=20 awards on June 5. President Nelson Mandela will host the award ceremony which =20 will be attended by environmentalists from around the=20 world. The awards are intended to reward exceptional work=20 on behalf of our planet, […]

With a new technique and a new coach, promising South=20 African javelin thrower Philip Spies is ready to take on=20 the world’s best =20 ATHLETICS: Julian Drew=20 AFEW weeks ago South Africa’s top javelin thrower was=20 training at the Rand Afrikaans University track when Clive=20 Rice called from the stands enquiring whether his South=20 African […]

Aspasia Karras Mike Gcabo has landed a coup: the North West Builders=20 Federation (NWBF), of which he is president, has just=20 embarked on one of the biggest construction contracts ever=20 awarded to black builders. A R60-million joint venture between Mawite (a consortium of=20 nine builders from the NWBF) and LTA Building will rebuild=20 the Mabopane […]

Graham Matthews A couple of months ago I said it would be wrong to read too=20 much into the tourist arrivals data for any one month.=20 As the weeks roll by, however, the so-called “big picture”=20 emerges and reveals the strong underlying pace of growth in=20 the number of foreign visitors entering South Africa. Intriguingly, […]

The ‘black empowerment purchase’ of JCI and Johnnic has=20 important implications, reports Reg Rumney The National Empowerment Consortium (NEC) is poised to buy=20 a big stake in Johnnic, the industrial firm that came out=20 of the unbundling of conglomerate Johannesburg Consolidated=20 The details of how the union and black-business-based=20 consortium intends pulling this off are […]

Investors expected SAB’s centenary year to be a good one=20 and they were not disappointed, reports Jacques Magliolo The South African Breweries’ (SAB) centenary year was a=20 momentous one. The country experienced a successful=20 transition to democracy and the group heralded its 100th=20 year of operation with record results — attributable=20 earnings rose by 30 […]

With the changing climate in local banking Jacques Magliolo looks at which banks are likely to come out tops South Africa’s four major banks have girded their loins to face a tough future as interest rate rises squeeze their margins. Brian Feldtman, banking analyst at stockbrokers EW Balderson, says that Amalgamated Banks of South Africa […]

Reg Rumney While the government is pressing on with attempts to get South Africa preferential trade access to the European Union (EU) in terms of the Lome Convention, business seems lukewarm. The Lome Convention gives products from underdeveloped countries access to European markets, and could boost sales in Europe of certain South African products, particularly […]

ANDREW WORSDALE separates the intelligent and stylish from the Dumb and Dumbers in his best and worst of 1995’s movies IN a year dominated by Jim Carrey at the box- office — The Mask and Dumb and Dumber were the two top-grossing movies in South Africa, earning a combined income of R16,5-million — – there […]

In the dampness of the series against the English, the inclusion of Paul Adams in the South African squad is a bright CRICKET: Jon Swift IT is perhaps an upardonable turn of phrase given the current state of England’s sodden safari round South Africa, but the inclusion of Paul Adams in the national squad for […]