Jacques Magliolo reports on Pepgro’s moves to improve=20 its competitiveness both locally and internationally=20 Pepgro’s R208-million rights issue came as no surprise=20 to market analysts. The move is yet another strategic,=20 well-planned step to make the group stronger and better=20 prepared for local and international competition, says=20 Mathison & Hollidge industrial analyst John Thompson.=20 Market […]
The police have agreed in principle they are responsible for frauds committed by convicted murderer Michael Bellingan, reports Stefaans Brummer This week’s murder conviction of security police captain Michael Bellingan has strengthened the quest of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) for compensation for police dirty tricks Agreement has already been reached […]
The Budget did not reflect RDP priorities, according to the country’s biggest organised force, Cosatu. This is an edited version of the ANC-alliance partner’s Compared to apartheid Budgets, the 1995/6 Budget does have a number of positive features. Judged in terms of the fundamental shift required by the Reconstruction and Development Programme, however, the Budget […]
Beninoise artist Romuald Hazoume makes traditional=20 religious masks — out of discarded objects. ‘I’m just=20 sending back the rubbish sent from Europe to Africa,’ he=20 told Tony Karon=20 ROMUALD HAZOUME probably turned more heads than any=20 other artist visiting the Johannesburg Biennale. =20 The young Beninoise exhibited a series of traditional=20 religious masks crafted from […]
THEATRE: Guy Willoughby=20 GRAHAM WEIR is one clever, talented, protean man of=20 theatre. In a number of shows of his own and others’=20 devising, he’s proved he can act, sing, dance and think=20 on his feet — no mean achievement in the local=20 performing arts world.=20 Brief Descriptions is his one-man, award-winning view of=20 human […]
Sue Lund has calmly negotiated the ‘landmines’ of the land issue to write a balanced five-year plan for land distribution, writes Eddie Koch TEN years ago she was an idealistic young student who wanted to change the world. Today, still looking wide- eyed and innocent, Sue Lund is doing just that. She is the author […]
RAVAN, one of the stalwart anti-apartheid publishers of=20 the dark years of South Africa’s history, have started a=20 new series of titles called the Ravan Writers Series.=20 It was Ravan that first published JM Coetzee; that=20 published Mongane Wally Serote’s first (and thus far=20 only) novel. Many of their books were banned by the=20 white […]
Louise Flanagan Defence Minsister Joe Modise says he wants to get to the bottom of the Anton Lubowski affair — but he is refusing to meet a Weekly Mail & Guardian request to view the files which Military Intelligence (MI) supposedly have on the assassinated Namibian advocate. By producing the files, the military should be […]
In film and fiction, vampires are bigger than ever. Now,=20 a new author has given the ‘undead’ a vigorous new life,=20 writes Shaun de Waal=20 EXACTLY a century ago, Bram Stoker was hard at work on=20 his novel Dracula, which was to become the prototype for=20 innumerable incarnations, in books and films, of the=20 figure […]
Affirmative action appointees are job-hopping for ever-higher salaries, reports Mapula Sibanda A new affirmative action trend is taking root in South Africa’s job market as skilled black recruits find themselves in short supply, and hop from one management post to another — sometimes changing positions for as little as R100. These moves would not have […]