An upcoming conference may be the South African feature film industrys last chance to deal with its inner fragmentation, writes William Pretorius THE South African feature film industry is not quite dead. The corpse still twitches: Willie Estherhuisen of Orkney Snork Nie fame is busy with Lipstick, Dipstick, and Dirk de Villiers with Kalahari Harry […]

THE absence of a national accountant for a seven to eight-month period last year had led to considerable disarray in Cosatus finances, according to an inside source. As a result, the auditing of the federations accounts had taken much longer and cost more than it should have done, being finalised just before the national congress. […]

Mondli waka Makhanya THE Pan Africanist Congress appears headed for a showdown with the government over demands for amnesty for its political prisoners. The organisation this week threatened the mother of all mass action inside and outside prisons if the goverment does not release the 90-odd PAC members convicted of politically motivated offences or awaiting […]

Five tight forwards to drive the rest of the team to victory — that’s what Kitch Christie is looking for RUGBY: Jon Swift FEW would dispute the fact that most test matches are won from the physical presence of the front five. The boiler room must breathe fire into the moving parts of any rugby […]

Sibusiso Nxumalo NAMIBIAN police are investigating whether a full- page advertisement in a Windhoek-based newspaper last month contravened the countrys Racial Discrimination Prohibition Act. A docket would be ready soon, according to Namibias attorney general, Hatmut Ruppel. The advert — run on August 17, the anniversary of the birth of Nazi leader Rudolf Hess — […]

Louise Flanagan ANYONE can make it in the new South Africa. The East London Small Business Development Corporation and the Institute of Marketing Management yesterday presented its Emergent Entrepreneur award to former Military Intelligence agent Basie Oosthuysen, who currently runs a sewing school for unemployed people. Oosthuysens previous business experience was in running an educational […]

Big capital projects are set to boost the economy, reports Simon Segal AN estimated extra R65-billion in the pipeline for big capital projects could boost economic growth by an extra three percent a year, adjusted for inflation, over the next three years. That R65-billion, identified by stockbroking firm Frankel Pollak Vinderine’s economist Mike Brown, does […]

ROCK: Fred de Vries Men in their 50s cant play rocknroll! True. But the sad thing is The Rolling Stones still do it much better than the new crop of fellow British bands like Suede, Blur and The Charlatans. And in the light of the unstoppable renaissance of horrible old groups like Yes, Jethro Tull […]

Playing as a local here and in England, Matthew Vandrau will have to decide which local is lekker CRICKET: Luke Alfred THE County circuit hasn’t always been kind to South African cricketers. For every Rice, Cook or Kirsten there’s at least one Bryson, Van Zyl or Page. One of those attempting to enter the Rice/Cook […]

Despite his wanting to speak off the record there wasnt much to record from Tito Mbowenis speech in parliament this week, writes Chris Louw LABOUR Minister Tito Mboweni surprised journalists this week when he insisted that his address to the parliamentary labour select committee was off the record. All parliamentary committees were opened to the […]