Interviewed in Edinburgh, Minister of Sport Steve Tshwete said the enemies or reform in South African sport are digging in. Kevin Mitchell reports ‘When we won the Rugby World Cup in 1995, never once in the history of that country, never for a single moment before, were the people so solidly united. Never! That was […]

FRIDAY, 4.00PM: MALAYSIA and South Africa have signed an agreement to increase investor protection and safeguard the securities, futures and options market. South Africa is Malaysia’s biggest African partner, accounting for US$38,8 million in investment last year, or two percent of Malaysia’s total overseas investment. On Friday, Malaysia’s Securities Commission (SC) and the Financial Services […]

Johannesburg Biennale: Good works, heated debate. Brenda Atkinson reports Not since Cape Town artist Beezey Bailey adopted the identity of a black woman to get his work into the South African National Gallery has the local art world been as anxious as it is now about racial politics in the visual arts. The tension follows […]

FRIDAY, 6.00PM THE JSE ended its worst-ever week on Friday in a stronger position, with the all share index up 294 points from Thursday to 6589. The industrial index gained 305 points to close on 8130, while the financial index ended the day 514 points stronger on 9572. The gold index closed on 896 — […]

FRIDAY, 3.30PM: The troubled SA Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) had to explain its finances on Friday, after the Afrikaans daily Beeld revealed a shortfall of R16 million. An angry Rian Oberholzer said the rugby board would have made a profit of R16 million for the year to September, but was obliged to pay out R32 […]

FRIDAY, 8.30AM: The Auditor-General’s office is not satisfied with book-balancing procedures followed by the Independent Broadcasting Authority, according to a report submitted to the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee on Thursday. The IBA wrote off more than R4,86-million when it discovered its fixed assets register did not agree with its accounting records. The Auditor-General’s office filed […]

Ferial Haffajee : Design of the week They were in need of a hard sell. Old favourites indeed, but a little frayed at the edges. So men needed rebranding, decided Marie Claire magazine recently. The results of the advertisements for men’s competition appear in the magazine’s November edition. They are a welcome break from the […]

Gustav Thiel : Rugby Louis Luyt will win the battle for the presidency of the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) because he ‘bought the loyalty of the smaller unions’. But there is hope for rugby fans in the country who feel that Morne du Plessis is the sport’s messiah: he will oppose Luyt in […]

Andrew Worsdale looks at two promising entrants to the Newcomers Competition at this year’s Film and TV Market Among the 26 entries to the Newcomers Competition at this year’s Film and Television Market are two movies made by first-time directors on wings and prayers. Brendan Pollecut and Zak Dakile are heavily in debt as a […]

Bridget Hilton-Barber Unspoilt places What was once the headquarters of a cattle- rustling, river pirate, is now one of the most ridiculed towns in South Africa. Pofadder, Pofadder, how the mighty have fallen. Puffadders had nothing to do with it. This dusty dorp was named after a Koranna leader once known to the area’s white […]