EMELIA SITHOLE, Johannesburg | Friday 5.00pm. US equity markets and local currency blues should continue setting the pace for the South African stock market next week with portfolio managers bracing for further volatility. Portfolio managers said although local equities looked relatively cheap following recent losses and a depreciating rand, investors were slow to take the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT , Washington | Friday 9.00am. UNITED States President Bill Clinton called the border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea ”senseless” and urged them to back down from armed confrontation. The two Horn of Africa nations, Ethiopia and Eritrea first came to blows two years ago when a dispute over border territory erupted into a […]
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Ridley Scott’s Roman epic, Gladiator, is a spectacular adventure movie, but it’s more than a homage to Hollywood’s past. Mark Morris says its real triumph is to reinvent a forgotten genre using visual verve and technical wizardry.
<b>Review: Bringing Out the Dead</b>
Twenty-five years after collaborating on Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader are together again with Bringing Out the Dead. Mark Morris welcomes back America’s greatest film-making duo.
ALL Blacks prop Kees Meeuws may have recovered sufficiently to play in the Super 12 rugby semifinal for the Highlanders against the Crusaders in Christchurch on Saturday. Hiighlanders coach Peter Sloane said on Tuesday that Meeus has an outside chance of making the team. Meeuws left the field against the Waratahs last Friday with a […]
NAMIBIA is setting up a fund to enable it to expropriate white-owned land for redistribution to landless blacks, a senior official told parliament. Hifikepunye Pohamba, secretary general of the ruling South West Africa People’s Organisation, said the government would pay “just compensation” as stipulated in the country’s constitution. He was speaking during a debate on […]
A STORM has broken out in boxing circles with the announcement that WBA intercontinental champion, Philip Ndou is leaving his promoter Branco Milenkovic and signing up with Golden Gloves — the giant of SA boxing promotions. Milenkovic called a press conference on Tuesday in which he stated that Ndou is still contracted to him, but […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 1.20pm. NECOR has won the bid to acquire control of the embattled FBC Fidelity Bank, which was placed under curatorship last year after liquidity problems. The bank aims to merge FBC with its own Peoples Bank to form the country’s biggest empowerment bank. FBC’s curator, Tim Store, announced on Thursday […]