Stakeholders pass the buck and the blame for local content malaise, writes Glynis O’Hara Local contempt for local content. This accusation sparked quite a debate at last week’s Durban pow-wow on the state of local content on our airwaves. All parties – from Cabinet ministers, the SABC, M-Net, performers, technicians, community radio to record companies […]

Madeleine Wackernagel : Taking Stock Anglo American interims are not the most exciting event on the business calendar but on Tuesday this week it was standing room only. The markets had been abuzz with rumours, but even the seemingly wild speculation didn’t come close to the real thing. In one elegant move, Anglo rid itself […]

FRIDAY, 2.20PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S last wickets fell quickly on Friday afternoon, taking the team to 468 all out, with Pat Symcox reaching 54. Western Australia have started off strongly, with 117 for 1 wicket at close of play on the second day. FRIDAY, 9.35AM: South Africa cruised to 440/7 at lunch on the second day […]

Thebe is moving to consolidate its position by: * Restructuring of Thebe into six divisions from its present four. The two new divisions will be Thebe Communications, which will include its broadcasting and telecommunication interests (these include Khaya FM radio station, its television bid company Station for the Nation among others) and Thebe Travel and […]

Dan Atkinson in London and Mark Milner in Seoul When Yamaichi Securities was looking for a discreet home for 1-billion-odd of bad trades, it didn’t have to look for long. There was really just one place for the duff trades – offshore. And, for the true connoisseur of offshore, the destination of the dud deals […]

Biosphere II was a vision of the future that failed. Now, Jim McClellan reports, it has been reclaimed by mainstream scientists The huge sheets of cheap plastic look out of place hanging in Biosphere II, the sealed glass ecosystem in the Arizona desert, built at enormous expense and once hailed as a high-tech temple of […]

Saul Hansell After two years of development and trial, the credit-card industry has an elaborate system to improve the security of buying over the Internet. The system, called Secure Electronic Transaction, is to be introduced early next year and promises to make it harder for anyone to steal a credit-card number sent over the Internet. […]

Eddie Butler : Rugby Before the game against Ireland two weeks ago, Sean Fitzpatrick, perhaps surprised to be above ground and not in the changing room, agreed to do a BBC interview for Grandstand. The captain of the All Blacks, his international career spanning 11 years and 91 caps, was missing his first Test ever […]

FRIDAY, 2.20PM: WEST INDIES A began their four-day match in Newlands against Western Province with a narrow escape — opening batsman Leon Garrick edged the second ball of the match to the slips, where Eric Simons didn’t quite manage to catch it. But it was Simons who got his revenge not long after, trapping Garrick […]

Elizabeth G Olson The World Wide Web site of a group called the Charlemagne Hammerskins opens with an image of an armed, masked man beside a swastika. A click on a button below labelled “Access for sub-humans” yields a picture of an apparent concentration camp, captioned: “Be assured, we still have many one-way tickets for […]