MONDAY, 11.00AM THE Industrial Development Corporation has signed a R250-million five-year, fixed-rate eurorand term loan. The loan, which was signed last week with Rabobank of the Netherlands and Commerzbank in Johannesburg, will be financed by Rabobank. It is the IDC’s second eurorand loan. IDC CEO Khaya Ngqula said the loan will be used to fund […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: NATAL Rugby Union president Keith Parkinson on Sunday denied reports that the four unions which rejected Sarfu’s proposal for a regionalised team for next year’s Super-12 had accepted the proposal. He said the four rugby unions — Natal, Free State, Transvaal and Western Province — agreed to withdraw the application for a meeting […]
Hazel Friedman SO what’s a scumbag Eastender like yourself doing in a place like this? I don’t actually get around to asking this of world-famous photographer David Bailey. But on eyeing his jet-lagged lids I get the feeling that he’d much rather deal with inane queries than those of the gee, gosh, wow kind. But […]
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Muslim and Jewish leaders are united in their interpretation of this week’s petrol bombing in the Cape, report Rehana Rossouw and Gustav Thiel THE petrol-bomb attack on a Cape Jewish centre succeeded this week in uniting local Muslim and Jewish leaders in the belief that the culprits used a bizarre incident in Israel as a […]
With Nigeria’s elections dead before the voting has even begun, Wole Soyinka warns the world against falling for the hoax of `democracy’ propagated by Sani Abacha RARELY has so much self-deception been hidden behind doublespeak, as we have been made to marvel at, in the business of commentators on General Sani Abacha’s record in power […]
FRIDAY, 8.00AM DEPUTY PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki called on Johannesburg to become a “truly African city” on Thursday when he launched a R2 billionrevitalisation plan called “Masakhane”, aimed at reversing urban decline and the flight of business from the inner city. Mbeki said the renewal strategy for southern Africa’s largest city should “shift resources from the […]
THURSDAY, 10.30AM ALTHOUGH employment in the public sector showed a marginal annual increase between the first quarter of 1996 and the first quarter of 1997, R3 005,2-million more had been paid to public servants by the end of the first quarter of 1997 compared with the first quarter of 1996, according to data released by […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM THE Mpumalanga auditor-general’s office has completed its management report on its investigation into alleged irregularities surrounding the Mpumalanga Rural Housing Project. Provincial deputy auditor-general Bertie Loots said the report will be handed to acting housing director general Neville Karsen on Friday. Loots refused to reveal the contents of the report, saying only that […]
FRIDAY, 10.25AM: THE Springboks will tackle New Zealand in the Tri-nations rugby match at Ellis Park stadium on Saturday. South Africa has won only three of the 10 matches they have played against the All Blacks since their readmision into international rugby in 1992. “That factor is playing more on the minds of the experienced […]