Gerald Combrinck TO THE average man, this Sunday’s derby between Cape Town Spurs and Hellenic will be just another game, but to the soccer die-hards of the Cape the game is more important than the Milan derby at San Siro, or the London one between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal. Be it on the field or […]
Furniture companies’ are beginning to shine on the stock exchange, reports Jacques Magliolo For the first time in five years, furniture companies are performing well on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange dispelling investor concerns that these companies are doomed never to resurface as players of note. Their return to prominence on the JSE board is a […]
Jan Taljaard LESS than a day after a police raid last week, rebel radio station Radio Donkerhoek defied the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) by going back on the air. The defiant right-wing broadcaster sprung into action once more from the same cellar in which station chief Willem Ratte last Wednesday threatened that the station’s equipment […]
Peter Vale THE deepening tension between KwaZulu/Natal and the national government may unlock, in South Africa, one of the central features of the post-Cold War world: How much international power should central states devolve to their constituent parts? The shifting contours of international relations have moved old debates about federalism in entirely new directions. As […]
THE quota of elephants to be culled in the Kruger National Park this year will be cut by half and only “humane” methods will be used to kill them. This was announced by the National Parks Board yesterday after a marathon debate was held in Johannesburg between conservationists and animal rights groups over the controversial […]
Neville Dubow I SAW the Johannesburg Biennale at the end of its run. Deliberately so. I was curious to see how many of the installations would transcend their exhibition shelf-life and lodge themselves in one’s memory. And I’m not even going to mention all those dead video monitors and unlit candles. As at all international […]
Reg Rumney Labour leaders seem satisfied about the Budget deficit, the figure symbolic of “fiscal discipline”, according to a survey by the Community Agency for Social Enquiry of fifty-five union leaders. This could signal that government leaders, principally Deputy Finance Minister Alec Erwin and Reconstruction and Development Programme Minister Jay Naidoo, have done a good […]
Reg Rumney Crime and violence have pushed their way to the top of the list of business people’s concerns. Business respondents to the Weekly Mail & Guardian survey put prevention of crime and violence as the top priority of the Government of National Unity (38 percent of respondents). Job creation is second, and ensuring delivery […]
Dr Sibongile Zungu in the Mark Gevisser profile Something quite miraculous happens to Dr Sibongile Zungu, nkosi of the Madlebe tribe, when she dons her chiefly regalia: the rather frumpish, prematurely-matronlike woman, swaddled in a faux-kente caftan, transforms into the coquettish ntombi; flirtatious and swaggering in equal measure. Previously, sitting inside her classically bourgeois living-room […]
Steven Ntuli Labour Minister Tito Mboweni is struggling to find workers for his department. The problem, he says, is that he pays too little. The former trade union leader made this candid admission at an impromptu speech at Rhodes University this week. ”I am struggling to get black workers to work at the department because […]