Janet Smith SABC radio and broadcasting and entertainment industry leader, Primedia, have done a fair swop of Jeremy Thorpe and Chris Gibbons, two of South Africa’s strongest newsmen. Thorpe, a former TV news chief executive producer who left the SABC this year after an internal battle over the decision to end the wire services of […]
Armscor and the defence industry want to tap the Mandela magic abroad, and are putting pressure on the government to teach politicians the arms trade.
THURSDAY, 11.00AM THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange repeated its Wednesday performance on Thursday as it continued following international trends. Only gold shares benefited from the uncertainty on equity markets. In a flat day’s trade, one of the only notable features was the rand’s loss of more than 2,5c to the dollar, ending the day at R4,6855 […]
FRIDAY, 4.30PM: THOUSANDS of terrified civilians are fleeing across the Congo river to Kinshasa following renewed heavy fighting around the Congolese capital of Brazzaville between forces loyal to President Pascal Lissouba and the militia of former dictator Denis Sassou Nguesso. Most of those fleeing the recent surge in fighting are women and children from Brazzaville […]
play together The four Lemmer children, from toddler to pre-teen, are delightful: bright, affectionate, well- mannered. We go for a walk to see the canal close to the farm in Matama. I ask them what they miss most from South Africa. They say their friends.”There are plenty of children here. Haven’t you made new friends […]
As the deadline nears, the government and labour are urgently seeking a compromise on variations, reports Sechaba ka’Nkosi Last-minute attempts to ensure that the Basic Conditions of Employment Bill is passed in this parliamentary session are at a crucial stage. Sources close to the process say government and labour are exchanging new positions behind the […]
Athol Fugard’s latest play, The Captain’s Tiger, is currently on at the Pretoria State Theatre – to mixed reviews. Playwright Charles Fourie speaks to him, and Andrew Wilson gives his views on the play The first time I encountered Athol Fugard was in print. As a first-year student I was given a copy of a […]
A US businessman is trying to broker a deal in Angola in a bid for profit and peace, reports Chris Gordon Maurice Tempelsman has the ear of presidents, American and Angolan, as well as the Unita leader. Now the president of Lazare Kaplan International (LKI), who was Jackie Onassis’s partner for the last 15 years […]
FRIDAY, 3.30PM THE East Rand municipality of Sporings in Gauteng said on Friday that it is in dire financial straits and might not be able to meet its salary obligations at the end of the month. Springs municipality executive committee chairman Tatis Phasha said the council had already defaulted on R12-million owed to electricity utility […]
David Davies in New York: Golf Nick Faldo has thought the unthinkable. After a season in which he has been consistently inconsistent, he knows there is a real danger that he might not be in the Ryder Cup team that plays the Americans at Valderrama at the end of next month. He admitted to the […]