MONDAY, 11.30AM: SA BROADCASTING Corporation chairman Zwelakhe Sisulu, in a newsletter to staff, has outlined a transformation strategy for the state broadcaster which includes privatisaing the operations division, a radical makeover for radion, and redfining the identity of each television channel. Sisulu told staff that “the worst is now over”, while acknowledging a lack of […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM The rand sategd a comeback on Friday, strengthening more than 5c against the dollar to below R4,70 on a combination of export activity, a weaker dollar and Reserve Bank intervention follwoing its fall to its lowest-ever level against the dollar on Thursday. The rand ended Friday at R4,6940 to the dollar after traders […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: SOUTH AFRICAN junior flyweight sensation Masibulele “Hawk” Makepula beat Zimbabwean Nokuthula Tshabangu on points in their eight-round catchweight bout at Nasrec on Saturday. A bruised and bleeding Makepula admitted that it was the toughest fight of his career. “I now know what fighting at this level means. You don’t have to be clean,” […]
The Zulu Messengers, exponents of isicathamiya, are being applauded in a documentary. Andrew Worsdale hung around on set Every Saturday night, virtually without fail, the 15 members of The Zulu Messengers congregate at the downtown YMCA in Durban with over 20 other groups to perform in an isicathamiya competition that lasts through until late Sunday […]
Maria McCloy American hip-hop/jazz/funk singer and bassist Me’Shell NdegeOcello, who was due to perform at this year’s Johannesburg Arts Alive Festival, will not be appearing because of injuries sustained in a car crash. Arts Alive officials panicked when Ndege- Ocello began cancelling appearances on the European festival circuit, and it was confirmed this week that […]
Aspasia Karras Minister of Trade and Industry Alec Erwin this week announced that President Nelson Mandela will open an important investor conference in East London on November 7, where two of the eight Spatial Development Initiatives (SDI) in the Eastern Cape will be formally launched. It is clear from the outset that the Wild Coast […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM CONGOLESE government troops intensified their shelling of the central and northern parts of the capital Brazzaville on Friday in a continued attack on the militia of former dictator Denis Sassou Nguesso. Brazzaville residents fleeing across the Congo river to Kinshasa, capital of the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, said shells struck the home […]
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 […]