The JSE is set to make its contribution to the RDP by introducing a new Main Board market, writes Jacques Magliolo Finally, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange is to show that it has the courage to launch itself into a world of black business and empowerment. For the JSE this was a previously unthinkable notion, but […]
Bulelwa Payi THE Grahamstown police may be seen as “guardian angels” by black school students soon, if an “adoption” programme succeeds. The local police have come up with an innovative idea to win the trust of black students — they are encouraging them to “adopt-a-cop”. The project should be launched later this month. Police spokesman […]
RUGBY: Barney Spender WIN or lose on Saturday, this sixth tour of New Zealand by the Springboks will probably be judged a failure by the vast majority of South Africans. After all, the test series was lost, the Springbok head fell to Otago in rainy Dunedin and there was the ignominy of having prop Johan […]
Unions and black business are being wooed by casino king Sol Kerzner with an offer of free shares in a gambling venture, reports Jenny Cargill TRADE union federation Cosatu is part of a consortium negotiating with gambling magnate Sol Kerzner to bid for the lion’s share of gambling rights in the new South Africa. And […]
David Frost can live up to his name and beat the debilitating heat at next week’s US PGA in Oklahoma GOLF: Jon Swift THIS has, by anyone’s yardstick, been a bumper year for southern African golf. Ernie Els the US Open champion, Simon Hobday, winner of the veteran’s equivalent and Nick Price a popular winner […]
NATIVE TONGUE Bafana Khumalo ‘OH, Lisa! What you gon’ an’ done now, baby? What your mama gon’ and made you do?” I was sitting at a piazza at the Oriental Plaza, throwing bits of bread at the doves and shooting the breeze with my good friend, Ali. “Lisa Marie, mah baby, why now?” he cried, […]
Ravi Naidoo reports on the consequences of the increasing incidence of labour brokers LABOUR broking — described recently as a “den of unmitigated crooks” by the International Labour Organisation — is becoming a headache for trade unions and permanent workers. And, as it exists now, labour broking is potentially harmful to many stakeholders in the […]
Bafana Khumalo takes a look at an ambitious new educational series aimed at addressing health problems A WOMAN rushes into a clinic, tears rolling down her face as she begs a doctor to save her dying baby; they gallantly do their best but, alas, they lose the child. St Elsewhere? No, Soul City, a new […]
The plight of two threatened species — the jackass penguin and classical ballet — was highlighted at the launch of a new Pact production. Stanley Peskin reports WHEN Nedbank, which is celebrating its fifth year of involvement with The Green Trust, undertook the part sponsorship of Pact Ballet’s presentation of David Bintley’s Still Life at […]
Life for Cuba’s leading rapper isn’t easy, what with daily power cuts, food shortages — and a conservative bureaucracy which sanctions only salsa and other ‘traditional’ forms of music. Tony Karon spoke to Edesio Alejandros THE sun has gone and so has the electricity, and there is little else to do in the balmy darkness […]