Dear Andrew, WOULD it be presumptious to assume that along with the pain there was a touch of relief when you found that you’d been dropped for the third Test? Given your recent run of poor form and the fact that having a bat between your hands seems to turn you into a player who […]
Mondi Paper is likely to apply for a JSE listing this month — but nobody’s talking, reports Jacques Magliolo Amic-controlled Mondi Paper is to apply to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange for a listing within the next month, reliable industry sources from within the company confirmed this week. Speaking on behalf of Mondi company directors, who […]
`Progressive grunge’ band Lithium is injecting some vitality into Cape Town’s ailing music scene. Malu van Leeuwen reports LITHIUM, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a “soft silver-white metallic element”. Well, there is a metallic edge to their music, and they are four white boys. But no, Lithium is definitely not soft. In their […]
Critical Consumer Pat Sidley CONSUMERS in the Gauteng area may have noticed over the past two years that they have fewer choices of dairy products every time they get to the shelves. Those in other areas may have noticed the same over differing periods. For those consumers with high cholesterol, or a serious desire to […]
Media & Marketing Clive Simpkins THERE is a fascinating emerging synergy between current personal development thinking, the ensuing relationships and today’s business marketing. The end of the 1994 business year prompted an examination of marketing and the role of marketers in the light of these subtle yet significant trends and shifts in thinking. In the […]
Weekly Mail Reporter A NUMBER of cash-strapped Gauteng-based community arts projects have received “emergency relief” in the form of R350 000 from the regional government. Arts projects, like other non-governmental organisations, are facing financial crises as donors redirect their money towards the reconstruction and development programme. The government funds are considered “disaster control” for the […]
A Johannesburg record company is rereleasing the great alternative local albums of the 1980s — on CD. Shaun de Waal reports THE courageous cottage industry that was Shifty Records in the 1980s produced almost all the seminal “alternative” music of the time — from Bernoldus Niemand to Jennifer Ferguson, Mzwakhe Mbuli to the Gereformeerde Blues […]
Native tongue Bafana Khumalo I HAD a great holiday season, I really did and it is great to be happy, I discovered. This was a holiday season when I decided to go mainstream. Instead of getting depressing videos to watch until January 2, I went out and joined the throngs of shoppers in town going […]
Mapula Sibanda THE 330 guns handed in during the Gun-Free South Africa Campaign represent a drop in the ocean in relation to the 3,25-million arms owned by South Africans. According to South African Police Services representative Major Sally de Beer, almost two million South Africans are registered licence holders, some owning more than one gun. […]
Crime exists in South Africa — no one is arguing about that, writes criminologist Daniel Nina. The question is whether tough measures will deal with it THE liberal press call it “Public Enemy No 1”. Many social sectors are calling to end the moratorium on the death penalty. The well-off and poor communities are scared: […]