National Sorghum Breweries is looking to list on the stock exchange. Reg Rumney spoke to chief executive Professor Mohale Mahanyele BLACK-OWNED and black-run National Sorghum Breweries, which recently announced it is headed for the stock exchange, is no Jack the Giant Killer. So says NSB chairman and chief executive Mohale Mahanyele, despite competing head on […]

A secret memo to the cabinet promotes the `sensible’ operations at the Thor Chemicals toxic waste plant in Natal. Eddie Koch reports THE Department of Environment Affairs has sent a secret memorandum to the cabinet saying the Thor Chemicals toxic waste plant in Natal is doing “sound” work — though a commission set up by […]

Hardliners in the IFP are planning to quit government and strengthen their majority in kwaZulu/Natal, writes Farouk Chothia A SPECIAL Inkatha Freedom Party conference early next year will consider a plan by party hardliners to quit the government of national unity (GNU) and play the role of a Westminster-styled opposition party, IFP insiders revealed this […]

RUGBY: Jon Swift IT would be well for all concerned to take careful note of the cryptic comment made by national rugby coach Kitch Christie at the end of the tour of Scotland, Wales and Ireland. “We have the basis of the players for the World Cup,” was the way the quietly-spoken Christie laid it […]

Star editor Richard Steyn was dismissed in what was an early shot of a new newspaper war. By Weekly Mail Reporters ATHOUGH there has been a furore centred on the ”resignation” of The Star editor-in-chief Richard Steyn, he was in fact fired. Sources close to Argus management say that Steyn was summoned by Argus Newspapers […]

GOLF: Neil Manthorp MORAL outrage and righteous indignation so often accompany our very own Million Dollar Challenge at Sun City every year that we ought to be used to it by now. The trouble is, immediately after the gluttonous mountain of cash in the impoverished former Bophuthatswana, we then have to try and swallow the […]

South Africa has produced its first full-length opera — about the life of enigmatic `prophet’ Enoch Mgijima. Justin Pearce spoke to librettist Michael Williams THE old government liked opera. Or so it seemed, since they subsidised the building of opera houses and the staging of lavish performances of Verdi, Wagner and Puccini. But, for all […]

Moves are afoot to beef up competition policy, says Trade and Industry Minister Trevor Manuel. Reg Rumney reports LEGISLATION in terms of the Competition Act is unbelievably weak, says Trade and Industry Minister Trevor Manuel. The Competition Board has never been taken seriously as an instrument of policy, he adds. However, the Trade and Industry […]

African Encounters has moved to Johannesburg from Cape Town, where it received favourable reviews. Ivor Powell takes a different stand AFRICAN Encounters, presented at MuseumAfrica in Newtown under the auspices of the paragovernmental French Institute, is one of those shows that the official representatives of the old colonial governments love to treat us to: seemingly […]