Security at upcoming Ellis Park concerts is likely to determine South Africa’s ability to attract big acts in the future. But, with one week to go before Roxette takes the stage, no arrangements have been finalised yet. Pat Sidley reports DON’T feel too secure about the major rock concerts scheduled to take place in the […]

POP: Bafana Khumalo IN the world of popular music, some creations reach out and grab you by the throat, demanding attention. Some grow on you and stay with you for the rest of your life. Others, sadly, immediately become wallpaper and disappear as soon as they are churned out by the record company. East Meets […]

Shadley Nash HEALTH services in the Eastern Cape are on the brink of collapse with reports of corpses rotting in mortuaries, hospitals operating without water and medicine shortages. Water shortages in rural Transkei will compound the region’s health crisis with the regional government appealing to the Department of Water Affairs to intervene. CPA’s regional health […]

Kader Asmal and Mac Maharaj are being mooted as replacements for ailing Housing Minister Joe Slovo. Drew Forrest reports CANCER-stricken Housing Minister Joe Slovo has taken a turn for the worse, giving sudden urgency to the question of who will replace him in his vital portfolio. Slovo was this week confined to his home in […]

Dear Andrew, WOULD it be presumptious to assume that along with the pain there was a touch of relief when you found that you’d been dropped for the third Test? Given your recent run of poor form and the fact that having a bat between your hands seems to turn you into a player who […]

Mondi Paper is likely to apply for a JSE listing this month — but nobody’s talking, reports Jacques Magliolo Amic-controlled Mondi Paper is to apply to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange for a listing within the next month, reliable industry sources from within the company confirmed this week. Speaking on behalf of Mondi company directors, who […]

`Progressive grunge’ band Lithium is injecting some vitality into Cape Town’s ailing music scene. Malu van Leeuwen reports LITHIUM, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a “soft silver-white metallic element”. Well, there is a metallic edge to their music, and they are four white boys. But no, Lithium is definitely not soft. In their […]

Critical Consumer Pat Sidley CONSUMERS in the Gauteng area may have noticed over the past two years that they have fewer choices of dairy products every time they get to the shelves. Those in other areas may have noticed the same over differing periods. For those consumers with high cholesterol, or a serious desire to […]

Media & Marketing Clive Simpkins THERE is a fascinating emerging synergy between current personal development thinking, the ensuing relationships and today’s business marketing. The end of the 1994 business year prompted an examination of marketing and the role of marketers in the light of these subtle yet significant trends and shifts in thinking. In the […]

Weekly Mail Reporter A NUMBER of cash-strapped Gauteng-based community arts projects have received “emergency relief” in the form of R350 000 from the regional government. Arts projects, like other non-governmental organisations, are facing financial crises as donors redirect their money towards the reconstruction and development programme. The government funds are considered “disaster control” for the […]