WEDNESDAY, 6.00PM SHARES on the Johannesburg ended Thursday slightly firmer, with gold shares benefiting from the rand’s continued woes and industrials closing higher, but off the day’s highs because of profit taking. Big news of the day was the rand hitting its lowest point ever against the dollar before recovering in later trade after Reserve […]
William Onyango reports on how a new portrait of Nelson Mandela was discovered, and its journey from Kenya.
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: BARRY SKJOLDHAMMER was elected as the new chairman of the Transvaal Cricket Board (TCB) for the next two years at the TCB’s annual general meeting on Thursday. He replaces Gerald Ritchie who failed to win re-election after being opposed by Skjoldhammer. Fomer Wanderers chairman Ray Wentzel was elected as vice-chairman to replace Ziggy […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S Wayne Ferreira — unseeded at the US Open for the first time since 1993 — will play against Spaniard Alberto Berasategui in the first round of the Open at Flushing Meadow courts on Monday. If he beats Berasategui, he will play against Austria’s number five Thomas Muster and then Tim Henman […]
Robert Kirby: Loose cannon One of the most revealing moments of the Atlanta Olympic Games was the comment made by a middle-city indigent. With about three weeks to go before the games began, the Atlanta city fathers had suddenly realised that something needed to be done about the stockpile of vagrants, panhandlers and bag- ladies, […]
FRIDAY, 2.30PM The minibus taxi industry should be smashed and rebuilt, according to Elias Mosunkutu, chairman of the Gauteng public transport standing committee. Mosunkutu made the statement after the province was accused of being ruthless in amending the Road Transportation Act to force taxi operators to register and obtain route permits by Lennox Mabaso of […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: The United Cricket Board of South Africa’s director of development, Hoosain Ayob, will leave at the end of September to join the International Cricket Council. This follows his appointment to spearhead the development of the game in Africa. Ayob’s task is to spread cricket in 14 African countries where a sound base had […]
Ellegance TV will be looking beyond fashion’s hemlines, writes Janet Smith Elle magazine has cut itself a svelte new cloth by launching its first TVmagazine programme. Produced by Lauren Groenewald – Kathy Berman’s successor on SABC3’s now defunct The Works – and called, simply, Ellegance, it is set to glide on to SABC1 in half-hour […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM: A SOCIAL fund for improving living conditions of wine industry workers is at the heart of an out-of-court settlement being negotiated between government and KWV in an attempt to resolve the dispute over ownership of certain KWV assets during its metamorphosis from a co-operative to a limited liability company. Agriculture and Land Affairs […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM UNITED States special envoy Paul Hare arrived in Angola on Friday in an attempt to restart the country’s stalled peace process. Hare intends separately meeting President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and Unita rebel leader Jonmas Savimbi, as well as with international mediators. “We came to see what can we do to help,” Hare […]