The Department of Defence has been allocated R9,8- billion, which is a 11,7 percent decrease (or a cut of=20 R1,3-billion) from last year’s R11,1-billion. However,=20 the South African Police Service was allocated R8,9- billion in the 1995/96 Budget.=20 The reduction in defence will finance increased=20 spending on social services, said Chris Liebenberg=20 during his Budget […]
The scrapping of non-resident shareholders’ tax is a=20 strong move to attract foreign investment, reports=20 Jacques Magliolo The scrapping of non-resident shareholders’ tax (NRST)=20 and remaining import surcharges has elicited a positive=20 response from the market during this week’s Budget=20 Experts perceived it as one of the most positive=20 Budgets in decades as it aimed […]
With a dose of South African wit and a whipping by the=20 British team, the local brand of rugby league kicked=20 off last week RUGBY LEAGUE: Luke Alfred THE recent test between the Rhinos (the South African=20 amateur Rugby League side) and their amateur=20 counterparts from Britain was the ideal laboratory to=20 test the following […]
THEATRE: Guy Willoughby OUT of the slough of despond once called Capab Drama=20 comes a dull, draughty production of Alan Bennett’s=20 superb historical play, The Madness of George III. This=20 rendition offers scant help to the local cause of=20 ”Eurocentric” culture, confirming rather that we don’t=20 have the resources to mount this kind of work […]
The Markets Jacques Magliolo Two financial events took place over a period of a mere=20 five days this week which astounded — nay=20 flabbergasted — pessimistic, bearish me! While I may=20 be forgiven for incorrectly thinking the Budget would=20 be harsh, the scrapping of the financial rand was=20 totally unbelievable. Pre-Budget forecasts for both the […]
Movable Feast EVERY once in a while you feel the urge to pump up=20 those iodine levels and taste the flavour of the deep=20 blue sea as immediately as biting into a salt-water=20 oyster. When this happens, listen to your body. You=20 need sushi — that wonderful art form of the Japanese=20 chef, which takes […]
Eddie Koch WATER Affairs Minister Kader Asmal this week instructed his officials to investigate pollution charges against the controversial Thor Chemicals factory in the kwaZulu/Natal Midlands. The minister’s move follows a personal inspection of the factory where at least two workers have died of mercury poisoning and scores of others have been exposed to dangerous […]
Mapula Sibanda South Africa’s nine regions have been in place for more than six months, but old provincial sports structures — as many as 22 in rugby, for example — play on. Some officials respectably cite the “hampering of development” or “confusing” provincial name changes for this laxity, but the more frank attribute it to […]
Moveable Feast Marino Corazza WE’RE all part of the global village — or are we? There are still suburbs (however few and small) where the inhabitants nonchalantly live in their own worlds. Like the Glamour Village, where people on the hoof sport helenca jodhpurs, velour protective hats, that frothy, horsey smell and dung on their […]
Gauteng’s new director general is a former student leader who spent his time dodging the police. He spoke to Annie Mapoma A LEADER of the 1976 Soweto students’ uprising dubbed “master dodger” because police never arrested him is now Gauteng’s new director general, with a R13-billion budget and 130 000 administrative staff under his Vincent […]