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 […]
His body told him it was tired but the messages on Shaun Meiklejohn’s arms helped him to victory in the Comrades Marathon ROAD RUNNING: Julian Drew A CURSORY glance at many photographs of Shaun Meiklejohn could present the newly crowned Comrades Marathon champion as a trendsetter in the sphere of body adornment. As was the […]
Nicholas Lezard WHEN asked “Read any good books this year?”, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernires (Minerva) is the one that has most consistently sprung to mind. It is a story of the Italian occupation of Cephallonia in World War II — a conventional historical epic, it’s the kind of book you’d take on […]