It is paradoxical that the present South African authorities in this case Denel and its defenders in the Government of National Unity find themselves on the back foot on this issue (Denel, arms and the law, July 25 to 31). Quite rightly, the media has, by and large, taken issue with the authorities on their […]
De Klerk’s failure to admit moral responsibility for apartheid sins fails all of us, argues Andre du Toit SHOULD Archbishop Desmond Tutu have known better than to expect FW de Klerk, as National Party leader, to accept political responsibility for apartheid’s dirty war? According to press reports in May, Tutu had been close to tears, […]
STEPHEN Mulholland (Letters, July 25 to 31) quotes an internal report critical of my editorship of The Cape Times. As a general comment, I find much of the editorial/managerial breast-beating about most newspapers undoubtedly blemished pasts tedious. I include my editorship as blemisheed because I know that though we got in the odd blow most […]
THURSDAY, 1.00PM: MOROKA SWALLOWS on Thursday announced their three sponsors for the season — Nike, Elephant Beer and Independent Newspapers. Swallows have signed a three-year contract with Nike as their technical sponsor and have renewed their contract with Elephant Beer. The sponsorship means that Swallows will have constant contact with other Nike-sponsored clubs — Brazil’s […]
THURSDAY, 3.30PM SOUTH Africa is the 33rd most corrupt country out of 52 nations surveyed by Transparency International this year. Transparency International’s corruption perception index is based on seven international surveys of businesspeople, political analysts and the general public, and ranks countries out of 10, with the least corrupt gaining the most points. No country […]
THURSDAY, 1.00PM: US OPEN champion Ernie Els won the $200 000 International leg of the Andersen Consulting World Championship of golf in Kohler, USA on Wednesday . He finished two holes ahead of Australian Steve Elkington to qualify to play in the four-man world finals at Scottsdale, Arizona in January. Els will play against his […]
THURSDAY, 5.00PM SIX Burundians convicted of taking part in ethnic massacres in the tiny central African country’s civil war were executed by hanging Thursday, officials said. They were the first executions in Burundi since the early 1980s, and observers said they were designed to underscore the government’s determination to bring war criminals to justice. The […]
THURSDAY, 8.00AM RESERVE BANK governor Chris Stals said yesterday that he hoped to relax monetary policy before the year end, but refused to be drawn on a date. ” The influence of last year’s depreciation (of the rand) is working itself out from the inflation now, so I think all the indicators tell us that […]
WEDNESDAY, 5.00PM AN APPLE laptop is the star of a Botswana technology and education conference — because it is powered by a clockwork generator. Trevor Baylis, British inventor of a clockwork radio manufactured in Cape Town, connected his radio to a low-powered Apple E-mate 300 computer on show at the conference. The radio, which includes […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM RESERVE Bank governor Chris Stals’s positive statement on an interest rate cut on Wednesday deterred further selling on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, but investors were not buying either, leading to a quiet day, with investors waiting for a rate cut to materialise. With few sellers in evidence, the industrial index traded weaker for […]