Janet Smith The way you see the world had better be elegant, fast, utterly modern and definitely sexy if you want to survive youthtopia into the next millennium. Even if there’s a cause, it may no longer be conducted in Jesus sandals and roll-on deodorant. The way Cape Town’s Nobleman Motsa is seeing the world […]
Gaye Davis The fate of 453 former death-row prisoners remains unclear as politicians and legal experts wrestle with the dilemma of how best to deal with them. When the Constitutional Court abolished the death penalty two years ago, it ordered that prisoners sentenced to death remain in custody until their sentences were either set aside […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange repeated its Wednesday performance on Thursday as it continued following international trends. Only gold shares benefited from the uncertainty on equity markets. In a flat day’s trade, one of the only notable features was the rand’s loss of more than 2,5c to the dollar, ending the day at R4,6855 […]
play together The four Lemmer children, from toddler to pre-teen, are delightful: bright, affectionate, well- mannered. We go for a walk to see the canal close to the farm in Matama. I ask them what they miss most from South Africa. They say their friends.”There are plenty of children here. Haven’t you made new friends […]
Soccer: A draw against Congo, and one point, is all South Africa need to book their place at the World Cup finals, writes Andrew Muchineripi There is no higher peak in African football than qualifying for the World Cup finals and South Africa can realise that dream this Saturday provided they avoid defeat against Congo […]
Julian Drew Soccer George Castador’s little establishment near the central market in Pointe Noire was really cooking the night before Congo played South Africa in April. A shebeen on top of one of the single-storey buildings surrounding the market, there was plenty of space to dance to what is one of the best record collections […]
Greg Bowes: Music He’s widely regarded as the father of house music, the four-to-the-floor style that currently eclipses all others on the world’s dancefloors. He’s remixed or worked with some of pop music’s biggest guns. His deejaying skills are legendary. He is Frankie Knuckles, and he’s on his way to South Africa next month to […]
ancestry Pygmy chimps show that peace and love may come naturally to their human cousins, writes Robin McKie Peering into the eyes of a pygmy chimpanzee may reveal a strange secret: a glimpse of our ancient apeman ancestors. Scientists now believe these graceful cousins of the common chimpanzee share many features with australopithecines, a four-million-year-old […]
Ex-Drum photographer Jrgen Schadeberghas won the battle for ownership of his photographs, reports Hazel Friedman Legendary photographer Jrgen Schadeberg has finally won his David versus Goliath battle against publisher Jim Bailey. The long, bitter war waged by the ex-Drum photographer against the former owner of the pioneering African magazine in the Fifties and Sixties, centred […]
The spirit of Shaka Zulu is back, this time featuring a gaggle of international stars, reports Charl Blignaut Ask any common or garden foreigner about their impressions of South African history and you can safely bet that the words “Shaka Zulu” will come your way. That’s got a lot to do with SABC-TV’s 1986 series […]
Dror Eyal: The festival circuit It would be easy to dismiss Oppikoppi as the valley of drunken louts; to concentrate on an estranged man committing suicide; on the drunkenness, debauchery and the sexual harassment. But in any society of 15 000 odd people, including those whosnuck in under duvets in the boot, there will be […]
THURSDAY, 1.30PM: PGA tour commissioner Arnold Mentz believes that South African golf is to change dramatically in the comming months. Speaking at the launch of the expanded Seniors Tour on Wednesday, Mentz said an announcement on new plans to boost junior and development golf in the country will be made soon. He said a deal […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM GOLD was the only major index on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange not to post losses on Wednesday, as Wall Street’s mood swings continued. The international volatility dragged the industrial index down 45 points to 9 243, but the turmoil was good for gold, with the gold index gaining 9 points to 1 026 […]
US SCRAPS MOZ DEBT THE United States has written off $8-million of Mozambique’s debt, two-thirds of the total to have been repaid by mid-1999, the US embassy in Maputo said on Thursday. An agreement formalising the move was signed on Wednesday by Bank of Mozambique Governor Adriano Maleiane and Michael McKinley, the US embassy’s charge […]
THURSDAY, 5.30PM HEAVILY armed assailants killed seven policemen and eight civilians in an attack in the Kenyan Indian Ocean port city of Mombasa on Wednesday. On Wednesday night the assailants first attacked a police station in south Mombasa, killing a policeman, ransacking its armoury and freeing suspects in police cells. Then they moved to the […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM MARKET-leading bottler Amalagamted Beverage Industries and a consortium of small black-owned bottlers have emerged as the lead biddersa for the bottling plant of bankrupt local Pepsi bottler New Age Beverages. It is believed their offers range between R90-million and R100-million. Chief liquidator Les Cohen said on Wednesday the process of selecting the winning […]
THURSDAY, 4.30PM IN an effort to ease the trauma of reporting rape, Welfare Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi on Thursday unveiled a “rape crisis kit” to be made available at rural police stations and clinics. The kit contains disposable underwear, a blanket, toiletries, a pain-killer and telephone numbers for rape councillors, Fraser-Moleketi said in Pretoria. “It also […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM THREE black empowerment groups are set to make a multi-million rand investment in PQ Africa, the company formed from the merger of Persetel and Q Data. Making the announcement on Wednesday at the release of Q Data’s annual results, current Q Data chairman and CEO of Persetel Q Data Africa (PQ Africa) Leen […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: THE Congress of SA Trade Unions’ investment arm Kopano Ke Matla is putting in a joint bid with a Danish labour federation for state-owned Aventura Resorts, which is scheduled for privatisation this year. It is believed that another 11 parties are interested in bidding for the company, including Genbel Securities and another union […]
THURSDAY, 1.30PM: A 22-MAN Congo national soccer squad arrived in the country on Wednesday. Congo will play against Bafana Bafana in a make-or-break World Cup qualifying match at FNB Stadium on Saturday. The Congolese embassy in South Africa took the players and their officials to a Sandton hotel after they rejected transport provided and the […]
THURSDAY, 1.30PM: OLYMPIC 800m silver medallist Hezekiel Sepeng made a sensational comeback when he won the 800m and clocked his second best time in 1min 43,44sec at the Grand Prix meeting in Zurich on Wednesday night. Sepeng, who was reduced to running in the B team, said he wants people to see that he is […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S Theo Verster and Renate du Plessis broke South African and African records on the third day of the Pan Pacific swimming championships in Fukouka, Japan on Tuesday. Verster finished eighth in the men’s 100m butterfly final with a time of 54,58sec, just above his own national and African record of 52,22sec. […]
WEDNESDAY, 8.00AM DE BEERS chairman Julian Ogilvie Thompson is to step down after 13 years, to make way for Nicholas Oppenheimer, now deputy chairman. Oppenheimer, 52, becomes the third generation Oppenheimer to chair the company, following grandfather Ernest and father Harry. Ogilvie Thompson will retain his position as overall chairman of the greater Anglo American-Minorco-De […]
TUESDAY, 5.30PM BETTER than expected producer inflation figures released on Tuesday helped strengthen capital markets, paving the way for a strengthening of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s industrial index. The industrial index ended the day 28,3 points up on Monday, closing at 9 267,7. The index closed off the day’s highs however, as Wall Street opened […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM LOCAL mining house Johannesburg Consolidated Investments is to invest $660-million in an iron project in the Mozambican port of Beira, JCI executive chairman Mzi Khumalo said on Tuesday. Khumalo said the project will be one of the most competitive in the world, and will be central to economic development in Mozambique. The facility […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: BAFANA BAFANA won their warm-up friendly match against Free State XI 1-0 in Bloemfontein on Tuesday night. Midfielder Doctor Khumalo scored from a penalty spot after being brought down by defender Charles Montloung in the 53rd minute. Bafana Bafana attacked early in the first half and Eric Tinkler was unlucky when his shot […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: SOUTH AFRICAN Rugby Football Union president Louis Luyt has called all 14 provincial rugby coaches to attend a meeting at Ellis Park on Thursday, following recent poor perfomance by the Springboks. The meeting will provide national coach Carel du Plessis and other coaches a chance to thrash out short and long-term plans to […]
WEDNESDAY, 5.00PM The fire that destroyed one floor of the Zambian government headquarters in Lusaka on Tuesday appears to be linked to another fire that destroyed a makeshift market used by street hawkers, precipitating violent protests by street vendors in the capital which led to police firing live ammunition and teargas, and closing all access […]
TUESDAY, 3.00PM The producer price index fell to an annualised 7,5% in June, 0,9 of a percentage point down on May’s 8,4%, largely as a result of a decrease in the average price of crude oil imports. Month-on-month, the index fell 0,2% in June, compared to a 0,9% increase in May. Locally produced commodities showed […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM: The board of directors of Sentrachem on Tuesday decided to recommend that shareholders reject US-based chemicals giant Dow Chemicals Company’s R10,50 a share takeover offer, leaving the R2-billion proposed deal hanging in the balance. The board said it believes the offer “does not adequately represent the value of Sentrachem’s business”. Sentrachem shares jumped […]
WEDNESDAY, 5.30PM GAUTENG local government MEC Sicelo Shiceka on Wednesday said local authorities in the province have recovered more than R500-million in rates and service payments since the government began the cutting electricity supplies of defaulters on August 5. He said the amount collected constitutes 13% of the R3,8-billion owed to Gauteng local authorities by […]
MORE CAPE FLATS VIOLENCE The continuing war between Cape Flats gangsters and vigilantes resulted in the death of a man on Tuesday night when two houses, allegedly the homes of drug dealers, came under attack within minutes of each other shortly before midnight. The occupants of a white Ford Sierra stopped in front of number […]