Lizeka Mda The government may be laughing all the way to the bank after snagging R819-million from the Aeroporti di Roma for a 20% stake in the Airports Company, but some company employees are unhappy. Black managers at the company say the strategic equity partner in the partial privatisation of the Airports Company was acquired […]
Andy Duffy The government is mulling over an offer from one of the world’s leading Aids experts to set up a R40-million research unit in South Africa. Dr Luc Montagnier, the French scientist who first isolated the HIV virus in 1983, tabled his offer in a meeting in Cape Town last week with the Department […]
Shopping and Fucking is one of the most controversial scripts to be staged in South Africa. Charl Blignaut sits in on a rehearsal The moment I walk in I can feel the energy in the rehearsal room change, becoming slightly flustered. Five faces turn and look up at me from the floor where they are […]
Unita’ John Grobler, Tangeni Amupadhi and Chris Gordon Details emerged this week of a large consignment for South African military vehicle (SAMil) all-terrain trucks, allegedly flown to Angola in violation of a United Nations arms embargo by a South African company, Interstate Airways. The tough SAMil trucks, developed exclusively by the state arms conglomerate Denel […]
WHO IS . . . GERALD MORKEL? Gerald Morkel, the man who will replace Hernus Kriel as premier of the Western Cape on May 11, is best described as a politician who has risen without trace. A stranger to controversy, one could say his very blandness ensured the job would be his. It was a […]
Has the time come for Namibia to honour the heroes of its past? James Ambrose Brown looks back at the bloody conquest of legendary Bondelswart rebel leader Abraham Morris whose lust for liberty took him to his grave Abraham Morris was the last of the fiercely independent Bondelswart fighting generals. With his handful of ragged, […]
Shop around for the best credit card deal available, writes Charlene Smith Despite the entry of more than 70 foreign banks into the local market, the South African commercial banking sector, protected by a R1-million limit on deposits to locally based foreign banks by individuals, is plodding along in its same uncompetitive way – unless […]
THURSDAY, 1.00PM: FORMER African National Congress midleads leader Sifiso Nkabinde was acquitted on 16 charges of murder and two of incitement to murder in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday. Even before his acquittal, rumours that he might be released — supported by comments from the judge on Wednesday condemning the police’s investigation — had […]
Brenda AtkinsonOn show in Johannesburg South Africa is not known for abundant, or even exciting, public art. In fact you’d be hard pressed to find an inspirational public work were you tracking one down, let alone stumble across a few in the course of your day. Of course, there are those pigeon-perch monuments to political […]
Douglas Rushkoff : ONLINE How could the breakfast readers of Melbourne possibly benefit from the musings of a cyber-writer from the other side of the world? Why should the innocent trees of South Africa be sacrificed to provide printing space for the rantings of a New York-based media theorist? Because, like it or not, thanks […]