Matthew Krouse 1 Mugg & Bean (Cape Town, Johannesburg): The Martians have landed, and have seemingly established these emporiums in every shopping centre in the land. Biggest branches are at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront and in Killarney Mall, Johannesburg. Owned by Ben Filmalter of the Linga Longa chain of five significant restaurants, including Leipoldt’s in […]
Novelist John Irving tells Will Hodgkinson about the hard choices he faced in adapting his epic The Cider House Rules for the screen.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Thursday 2.40pm ZIMBABWE has holdings of foreign exchange cover less than one day’s imports, an opposition economist said said. Opposition secretary for economic affairs, Eddie Cross, said the critical shortage of foreign exchange is a the result of “gross mismanagement.” “Against a normal target of two to three months of import […]
THE Reserve Bank began a two-day monetary policy meeting on Wednesday, with markets expecting it to leave interest rates on hold as lower oil prices point to subsiding domestic inflation pressures. The Bank will make an announcent when its monetary policy committee, which normally meets every six weeks, ends the current meeting early on Thursday […]
SOUTH Africa’s 2006 World Cup bid committee are set to make a vital presentation to senior African diplomats in Addis Ababa next week as the bid to host the soccer showcase reaches fever pitch. Danny Jordaan, CEO of the South African bid committee will meet with Salim Ahmed Salim, Organisation of African Unity secretary general, […]
SANTOS held SuperSport United to a 2-2 draw in a thrilling Castle Premier League match at Greenpoint Stadium in Cape Town on Wednesday night. Santos looked better than United all through the match, and it was only SuperSport ‘keeper John Dithebe whose breathtaking saves kept the scored tied. Jean Bang-Penda scored for United in the […]
A ROCKFALL has killed three miners working underground at the African Rainbow Minerals gold mine near Welkom in the Free State. Mine spokesman Mike Jooste said on Thursday that the men were killed instantly when the hanging wall above them collapsed due to a seismic tremor measuring 1,6 on the Richter scale. He said their […]
CONSERVATION authorities have shot dead three elephant bulls after they were trapped with no food by strongly flowing rivers. The elephants had escaped from the Kruger National Park in the eastern Mpumlanga province and were trapped between two rivers. The animals were killed because there was not enough food in the area where they were […]
CONSERVATION authorities have shot dead three elephant bulls after they were trapped with no food by strongly flowing rivers. The elephants had escaped from the Kruger National Park in the eastern Mpumlanga province and were trapped between two rivers. The animals were killed because there was not enough food in the area where they were […]
RESCUERS have recovered the bodies of two more people who were swept away by a flash flood on the Storms River over a week ago. Police on Wednesday indentified the bodies as 15-year-old Richard Wagner, who was found at the Storms River mouth, and of Bertus de Jager, who washed up between Knysna and Sedgefield. […]