Arthur Goldstuck Music tunes in to the Web Last weekend saw the climax of 1997’s biggest, noisiest and most fascinating South African music event, the third Oppikoppi Festival of Rock held in the bushveld beyond Sun City. What started as a University of Pretoria Graphic Design school project is now the keynote event in the […]
In the early days of South African music, many stars sold their rights to record companies for a flat fee. Today they say they were exploited and are looking for compensation. Glynis O’Hara investigates A recent visit to South Africa by The Manhattan Brothers’ Joe Mogotsi has brought an old music industry issue to the […]
jailed Gaye Davis and Gustav Thiel Three-year old Patronda Kelebogile Morwe was found dead in a zinc bath in her home in Ramatlabama Village near Mafikeng in the North West Province this month. She had been raped and strangled. A boy aged 13 has been arrested. A fortnight ago on the Cape Flats in Cape […]
clean? Charlene Smith Rallies and meetings held by Roelf Meyer’s New Movement Process (NMP) and Bantu Holomisa’s National Consultative Forum (NCF) are enthusiastically attended, whether in Karoo villages, urban centres or townships. And National Party members are continuing to drift to Meyer. But how clean are the alliances Meyer and Holomisa have been prepared to […]
Charlene Smith South African unskilled labour is pricing itself out of the market, and while professional and technical staff in Gauteng earn less than the global norm, industries that could create jobs will simply not come to the region because of high wages. “Labour is simply too expensive,” conceded Jabu Moleketi, Gauteng Minister of Economic […]
A US businessman is trying to broker a deal in Angola in a bid for profit and peace, reports Chris Gordon Maurice Tempelsman has the ear of presidents, American and Angolan, as well as the Unita leader. Now the president of Lazare Kaplan International (LKI), who was Jackie Onassis’s partner for the last 15 years […]
Gaye Davis Rape may be re-defined to include forced anal intercourse involving both male and female victims if a call this week by the Western Cape Attorney General, Frank Kahn, for new legislation is heeded. As a common-law offence, the definition of rape centres on the penetration, against her will, of a woman’s vagina by […]
FRIDAY, 4.00PM The investigation into the “canned” lion hunting industry has led to probes being instituted into 130 cases. The police Endangered Species Protection Unit and Northern Province special investigators have opened 39 dockets as a result of their investigations, and are probing another 90 cases. And, as investigations continue, evidence is being unearthed of […]
Brenda Atkinson: Cultural Sushi Last Sunday’s fundraising auction at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg was not, as one audience member was heard to whisper, “anything like Sotheby’s”. Technical hitches led to a late start; Albie Sachs had to deliver the opening address because hype guru Dali Tambo was “running on African time”; and jazz maestro […]
Nick Cumming-Bruce in Bangkok The skyscrapers on Bangkok’s skyline, once a sign of Thailand’s place at the centre of Asia’s boom, are now conspicuous symbols of a shocking and, for investors, unnerving bust. Typical is the prestige office block overlooking the manicured surroundings of the Bangkok sports club but abandoned, half-built, by a now penniless […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM: GENCOR’s Impala Platinum has reported a 17% increase in atrtributable income to R205-million in the year to June following successful cost-control measures and increased revenues due to the rand’s weakness. Earnings per share were up to 330c from 282c, while the the dividend increased to 110c from 100c. The results were considerably better […]
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, 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 […]
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, 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, 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM INTERNATIONAL callback operators have been given two weeks to shut their local operations by the SA Telecommunications Regulatory Authority. Satra chairman Nape Maepa said the callback operators are contravening the Telecommunications Act, which says that only licensed entities may provide telecoms services. Telkom is the only licensed telecoms service provider in SA, and […]
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, 2.30PM A POLICEMAN on Tuesday told the Shell House inquest how he fired 10 shots from his R5 automatic rifle to prevent a man escaping after he shot and killed policeman during a march by 20 000 Inkatha Freedom Party supporters through central Johannesburg on March 28 1994. The inquest is examining the cause […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]
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, 3.30PM CONVICTED Hani murderer and former Conservative Party politician Clive Derby-Lewis continued his testimony before the truth commission’s amnesty committee on Wednesday by describing his extensive political links with foreign right-wing organisations. Derby-Lewis and Polish immigrant Janusz Walus were convicted of the April 10 1993 murder of SA Communist Party and African National Congress […]
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, 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. […]