As a rule, journalists prefer reporting the news to making it. Yet the press itself is making the headlines in South Africa just now. The editors of the Johannesburg Sunday Times, the Mail & Guardian and two other Cape Town papers have been threatened with jail if they refuse a summons to appear before the […]

Bell Hooks BODY LANGUAGE In her first book, The Bluest Eye, novelist Toni Morrison identifies the idea of romantic love as one ”of the most destructive ideas in the history of modern thought”. Its destructiveness resides in the notion that we come to love with no will and no capacity to choose. This illusion, perpetuated […]

STANDARD Bank Investment Corporation (Stanbic) said on Friday that its appeal against a potentially harmful court judgment in a hostile takeover battle with smaller rival Nedcor will be heard next month. ”The Appeal Court hearing will take place on March 23 and 24 in Bloemfontein,” a Stanbic spokesman said. Lawyers had warned that it might […]

THE Shoprite Group has entered into a joint venture with the Egyptian-Kuwaiti Holding Company, which will open up investment opportunities for the supermarket group in Egypt and the Middle East, the company announced on Tuesday. Shoprite holds the majority share in the new company Shoprite Egypt. Said MD Whitey Basson: “Our decision for the business […]

NAMIBIAN WBO junior middleweight champion Harry Simon finds himself more in demand than any boxer from Southern Africa in recent years. Ahead of his title defence on Saturday night in Dagenham, England against Enrique Areco, ShowTime television has signed him to be on the under-card for the next Mike Tyson fight. Although a date has […]

SPRINGBOK winger Breyton Paulse showed electrifying form by scoring three tries in the Stormers’ 60-14 thrashing of Western Province in a pre-season match on Wednesday. The Stormers looked rusty at the start of the match, but soon got the rhythm going and scored eight tries, seven of which were converted by Braam van Straaten, whose […]

US envoy Reverend Jesse Jackson, concluding a two-week mission to promote investment in Africa, urged US companies on Tuesday to partner with African businessmen and said he will be there to help. He also said that US lawyer Willie Gary, with experience suing the tobacco industry, is contemplating spending as much as $30-million of his […]

THE United States and Nigeria on Wednesday signed a framework agreement establishing a forum for discussion of trade, investment and intellectual property rights questions. Nigeria is the US’s second-largest trading partner in Africa. Through November 1999, the US shipped goods worth $573-million to Nigeria and imported items worth $3,97-billion. US direct investment in Nigeria in […]

SOUTH Africa could negotiate on Zimbabwe’s behalf with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to help Harare out of an economic crisis, President Thabo Mbeki said Thursday. Mbeki, however, ruled out the possibility of giving direct financial help to Zimbabwe to save it from fuel and electricity shortages, saying the South African constitution […]