Jeremy Cronin: CROSSFIRE Isn’t it time to get Crossfire cross-firing? I am going to take a few pot shots at my friend and comrade, Pallo Jordan – with whom, on most things, I mostly agree. But first some anecdotal background. At the gold summit at the end of February, I was sitting in a Braamfontein […]
M-Net’s loud, irreverent youth music service Channel O could receive its biggest boost yet after ongoing but thus far disappointing negotiations with the SABC to take advantage of its free-to-air status. Channel O programming is said to be ready to headline the pay channel’s Open Time, which is changing its appearance radically from July. The […]
Belinda Beresford While there still may be some international scepticism about South Africa’s future, Trevor Manuel has signalled the government’s confidence by a further relaxation of exchange controls. Those unbelievers wanting to leave the country have been given a goodbye present – they can now take up to R1-million of household and personal effects. If […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM LATEST economic and financial projections published by the Reserve Bank on Friday predict a 3% growth rate for 1998/99 — in line with estimates presented in the Budget this week. Reserve Bank governor Dr Chris Stals told a parliamentary finance committee on the Budget that the Budget will enable monetary policy to be […]
Belinda Beresford Sometimes it may seem that the government and taxpayers – not to mention accountants and lawyers – are all locked in a contest with the one side trying to avoid as much tax as possible and the other trying to collect it. For many people having a tax adviser is part of life […]
Julian Drew Two years ago at the Atlanta Paralympics I was fortunate enough to stay with a wonderful family who were all involved with the Games in one way or another as volunteers. Alistair, the second of three children, was born with cerebral palsy but like all the athletes who descended on Atlanta for those […]
Janet Smith: Community jazz Trombones are polished to a shimmering golden glow. A beloved saxophone is fingered to tone perfection so smooth it shivers. Drums collect noise in tune with the mischievous guitar. And soon the players are ready. The venue may be charmingly tatty, a tad hot, but they’re going to perform till they […]
Philippa Garson Elmo should expand his cookie-baking skills to include detective work and do some off-set sniffing around, given the brewing controversy around Sesame Street, the pre-school television production in which he stars. Questions are being raised in the United States Congress about whether the R25-million granted by USAid to the Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) […]
Ferial Haffajee While sitting around talking advertising with the team responsible for the side-splittingly funny Nando’s campaign, one thing is striking. They’re all spring chickens. The twentysomething team is responsible for multimedia campaigns that have won Nando’s peer approval, solid sales growth for the 10-year-old chicken chain and the trust of Amory Gordon, Nando’s national […]
It wasn’t only the South African duo, Ian Woodall and Kathy O’Dowd, who came home to controversy after climbing Everest. Now the horror of the storms of May 1996 has been captured on the giant Imax screen, writes Ed Douglas Even though it fills only a fraction of the gigantic screen, the huge image of […]