Andrew Worsdale South African film-makers got northern=20 exposure over the past week at the 51st=20 Edinburgh Film Festival, the oldest=20 continuous film-fest in the world.=20 (Remember, movies turned a century-old only=20 last year.) Top of the line-up was the official United=20 Kingdom premiere of Les Blair’s=20 naturalistic massage of Jo’burg’s=20 underbelly, Jump The Gun. One […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM: The urgent high court application by callback operators to overturn a ban on their operations by the SA Telecommunication Regulatory Authority was postponed on Thursday when attorneys representing the SA Callback Association failed to appear in court after getting stuck in a lift in the high court building. Satra agreed to a postponement […]
Madeleine Wackernagel Hard on the heels of the successful Ikageng public share offer by Johnnic comes one from African Harvest, which is listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on October 1. Says African Harvest chair Mashudu Ramano: “This issue doesn’t compare in size, or price, but through our alliance with the National Empowerment Corporation [NE […]
Andy Duffy Government’s drive to transform education is going off the rails in the provinces. Provincial audit reports show many provinces don’t know many teachers they employ, and lack the money, the will or the expertise to implement new education policies. The report represents a further blow to Education Minister Sibusiso Bengu’s transformation initiatives. Not […]
Andrew Worsdale Like most South African parents, I didn’t=20 watch television as a kid. The first movie=20 I saw was Swiss Family Robinson, at the=20 Johannesburg drive-in. I slept through most=20 of it but remember to this day waking up,=20 seeing a huge, slithery anaconda, bursting=20 into tears and deciding it was safer to=20 fall […]
Cape Town’s chances are looking good, especially on the betting books, writes Julian Drew.
Mungo Soggot The government has snapped into action over the potentially disastrous drought effects on the economy of El Ni=F1o. Several government departments are contributing to a Cabinet memorandum on the climatic phenomenon in an initiative driven by Constitutional Affairs Minister Valli Moosa, who chairs a Cabinet committee to handle disasters. According to the Director […]
`alarming’ Mungo Soggot Human rights observers are alarmed by the suggestion of an African National Congress MP that the National Assembly should not have the power to veto a declaration of a state of emergency. If the State of Emergency Bill now before Parliament includes this week’s suggestion by Willie Hofmeyr, an influential member of […]
Bill Elliott: Golf Perhaps the greatest pleasure available to=20 those of us addicted to professional golf=20 is the opportunity to watch a great player=20 performing at his peak. The merely good=20 athlete will impress, but the truly gifted=20 can lift the spectator’s spirit, free the=20 imagination and allow all things suddenly=20 to seem possible. It […]
chance. Steve Morris: Rugby There can be little doubt in anyone’s minds=20 that the crushing 61-22 Springbok victory=20 in front of the baying Loftus Versfeld=20 crowd last weekend gave some joyous relief=20 to what has been a season markedly short of=20 the taste of triumph. It is also well within the bounds of South=20 African […]