THERE’S a rumour doing the rounds here that the Grahamstown Festival will be renamed the Grahamstown Dance Umbrella next year. But before you uncork the champagne, don your gumboots and organise a tickertape parade in celebration of a discipline that has finally come of age, it should be mentioned that dance wins the “flavour of […]
With several scorching performances leading up to Atlanta, Frankie Fredericks has dashed into the lead for the Olympic sprint titles ATHLETICS: Julian Drew ALREADY the greatest sprinter Africa has ever produced, Namibia’s Frankie Fredericks stands on the threshold of immortality. When the eight fastest men in the world settle into the starting blocks for the […]
Lynda Loxton The grand-scale fudging of issues to protect sacred cows in the oil industry continued apace this week with the release of the long-awaited Lambrechts report on deregulation. The report advises the government to retain the status quo for at least three to five years, while the already over-researched industry is again studied and […]
Experts believe 11 lions found in a forgotten Ethiopian zoo may be related to two African subspecies wiped out by colonists. Eddie Koch reports Ever wondered why the beast roaring out of the screen at the start of every MG M movie doesn’t really look like the cats you see in the Kruger National Park? […]
Governments and consumers must learn a new lesson: price rises are no longer automatic, thanks to technological advances and global integration. Roger Bootle discusses his theory with Madeleine Wackernagel Inflation is dead, RIP. At least in the industrialised world. South Africans may not be immediately convinced, but if Roger Bootle’s thesis is valid, we may […]
d like a king Ruaridh Nicoll THE gumboot slappers were getting kind of frisky as they emerged from a heavin g sea of leopard and lion skin, root-dyed cotton and bangle jewellery. They we re dressed in white shirts, blue trousers and wellie boots carefully daubed in the rainbow colours of South Africa. A shimmy […]
A year and R100-million later, plans to sell Mossgas are back to square one, writes Mungo Soggot THE government’s failure to sell Mossgas — and the bungled announcement of the fiasco — has highlighted the political power struggle over the fate of the synthetic fuel producer. The struggle may have cost the taxpayer over R100-million […]
Johnnic’s stake in Toyota SA may go to a multinational, not the National Empowerment Consortium, if ongoing negotiations succeed, writes Tebello Radebe A major multinational company has been urged to buy Johnnic’s stake in Toyota South Africa, worth more than R230-million, for fear that a successful bid by the National Empowerment Consortium (NEC) could jeopardise […]
Novelist Mark Behr knew he couldn’t keep his spy activities secret forever, re ports Justin Pearce Threat of exposure at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and in the media was hanging over the head of author Mark Behr when he confessed to having spi ed for the South African Police at Stellenbosch University in the […]
Alan Wright, chief executive of Gold Fields, talked to Bronwen Jones about the future of the mining house ALAN Wright is an optimistic man. While one mugging is enough to set most people packing for Perth, Wright’s reaction to serious injury was to protect his home and get on with his life. His reaction to […]