Thebe Mabanga in your ear South Africa badly needs a national music chart. One needs to be able to log on to the Internet or pick up a paper and be able see what song is flavour of the moment for the majority of entertainment consumers. Radio, by definition, has a crucial role to play […]

Johannesburg | Friday 11.00am. VOLVO is to use South Africa as a base for exporting catalytic converters and alloy wheels to its global assembly plants. The plan, just announced, is one of the first of several countertrade projects to get the go ahead linked to the defence agreement between South Africa, BAE Systems and Swedish […]

A BRITISH model who flew to Cape Town earlier this week to promote the plight of thousands of penguins struck by an oil spill off the Cape coast is having something of an identity crisis. The saga began when the International Fund for Animal Welfare announced Alex Gain, winner of the Sun newspaper’s Babe of […]

SAFAIR, the aviation leasing division of Imperial Holdings, announced three transactions worth more than R200-million, involving four passenger jets and a cargo aircraft. THE company has leased two McDonnell-Douglas MD81 jet airliners to Spirit Airlines, a US passenger carrier, for a period of eight years. In another deal, Safair purchased two additional ex-Austrian Airlines McDonnell-Douglas […]

A FUEL fire erupted again at the scene of the blaze in which more than 250 people died this week while villagers risked their lives scooping fuel still gushing from the vandalised duct. Flames leapt eight metres into the sky and a huge column of smoke billowed into the air above the village of Ovire […]

POLICE ‘arrested’ an escaped penguin waddling down a railway line at Cape Town station. A police spokesperson said it was believed the penguin had escaped from the South African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds emergency cleaning station in an old railway shed at Salt River where birds contaminated by oil from the sunken […]

Johannesburg | Friday 11.00am. Zimbabwe’s electricity debt to Eskom has hit R126.9m some of which is more than three months over due and concern is rising that South Africa will be left bearing its northern neighbour’s debt burden. Zimbabwe is under contract to pay its power supply account within 45 days but some payments are […]

Capostagno golf Whether or not you enjoyed the 1999 Open Championship at Car-noustie rather depends on your view of professional golfers. If you share their view that the public wants to see birdies and eagles then you probably thought it was all a shocking waste of time. If on the other hand, you believe we […]

Andrew Muchineripi soccer The annual pre-season Iwisa Charity Spectacular competition was a noble idea with football giving desperately needed funds to some of the many less fortunate members of our society. There was also a novel method of choosing the four contestants with phone calls and letters from the public dictating who appeared before the […]

households Khadija Magardie Xolani Zungu (9) smiles shyly and unhesitatingly says, when asked what he wants to do when he grows up, that he wants to be a doctor. Like many boys his age, Xolani likes sweets, and playing with toy cars, and whispering behind the teacher’s back at school. But unlike his friends, he […]