FRIDAY, 1.30PM: MICHAU WARRIORS’ case against the Premier Soccer League disciplinary committee was on Wednesday night dismissed after an arbitration hearing in Johannesburg. Warriors’ lodged an appeal against the PSL, after the League committee ruled in favour of AmaZulu earlier this month, awarding them two points from their drawn match against Umtata Bush Bucks. Premier […]
MARIA McCLOY reports on an ongoing dispute between sportswear manufacturer Nike and the popular cartoon Doonesbury THE impact of cartoons seems to be stronger than most thought, judging by the reaction of sportswear billion-dollar giant Nike to Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury cartoon strip that runs in newpapers round the world, including the Mail & Guardian. The […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM ANGLO American Corporation’s gold division saw its mines producing a solid aggregate performenace in the June quarter, with production slightly up and capital expenditure on new projects up 16%. Despite the difficult conditions in the gold market, group aggregate taxed profit was up to R396-million from R357-million in the March quarter. However, available […]
Two Mail & Guardian reviewers offer differing opinions on the black consciousness `conceptual concert’ The Biko Project * Bongani Ndodana AFRICAN-American bass Kevin Maynor has put together this meditation on black consciousness, interweaving spirituals, new compositions, poetry and extracts from speeches made by black visionaries like Paul Robeson, Malcolm X and Steve Biko. The recital, […]
Arthur Goldstuck Network of agonies WEB FEET does not usually act as a letters column. Sometimes, however, a voice that rings out in the wilderness of the Web sums up the dilemmas of the masses of Web users so succinctly, that it serves as a signpost to the kind of questions this column should be […]
THE Armaments Development and Production Act of 1968, which Denel is using in its court application to gag the media, is due to be repealed by Parliament, reports Rehana Rossouw. Almost completely unnoticed by the media, the Cabinet approved the far-reaching Open Democracy Bill last month. It aims to grant any person the right to […]
FRIDAY, 3.00PM: A FORMER engineer at Namibia’s Rossing mine has won a breakthrough compensation case in the House of Lords after a three-year legal battle. Edward Connelly lost his ability to speak to throat cancer, which he blames on working on ore crushers that spewed radioactive uranium and quartz dust. The dispute before the House […]
Thanks to Charles Taylor and Nigeria’s `peacemakers’, the election could herald a gangster state in Liberia, argues Stephen Ellis LIBERIA has had its first presidential election since the massively rigged 1985 poll, which many Liberians see as a main cause of the war which lasted from 1989 to earlier this year. The fighting may now […]
Springbok coach Carel du Plessis is rightly looking ahead to the 1999 World Cup, but this seems to have blinded him to the needs of winning Tests in the present Tri-nations series RUGBY:Steve Morris THERE are any number of questions to be answered in the wake of the 35-32 defeat of the Springboks at the […]
Paul Blustein A TOP official of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) believes Thailand must quickly shore up its troubled financial system and cut government spending to defuse an economic crisis that has shaken currency and stock markets across three continents. Stanley Fischer, the IMF’s deputy director, this week suggested that Thailand is behaving foolishly by […]