MONDAY, 11.00AM: THE South African Protea women’s netball team beat the Australian Institute of Sports 60-54 in Perth on Saturday, in their last match before they face the World Champions Australia in the third and final Test match on Wednesday. Team manager Lorraine Lewis said: “The team played a more relaxed game. It has given […]
MONDAY, 10.30AM FOLLOWING last week’s successful Samurai bond offer, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and his team will jet off to New York next week on a roadshow to launch a $500-million 20-year Yankee bond issue aimed at further boosting SA’s foreign exchange reserves ahead of lifting forex controls. Meanwhile, the Reserve Bank is expected to […]
MONDAY, 2.30PM THE OAU observer mission has said the Algerian poll last week was conducted quietly and calmly and the 70 members of the team are satisfied they were generally fair. Turnout at the polls reached 65,4%, despite boycott calls by militant Muslim opponents of the poll, and victory went to the National Democratic Rally […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM: THE United Cricket Board of SA announced a 15% pay rise on Thursday for the South African cricket side to play the 1997/1998 season. Grade A players, including Hansie Cronje, Gary Kirsten, Brian McMillan, Daryll Cullinan, Dave Richardson, Allan Donald and Shaun Pollock, will get R15 200 per month, while players in Grades […]
Hazel Friedman THE ground-breaking local television series, Ghetto Diaries, has won two awards at a prestigious international media festival. Held in Geneva this week, the Rencontres Media Nord-Sud Festival (North- South Media Encounter) is an annual festival focusing on development documentaries, which alsoaims to encourage North-South relations in film and television. Out of 36 finalists […]
THE Electronic Mail & Guardian won a Loerie trophy, the media industry’s most prestigious prize, at an awards ceremony at Sun City at the weekend. This was the first time that an editorial product has won a prize at the advertising industry-dominated Loeries. There were 99 entries in the newly created Internet category, for which […]
Shaun de Waal ALIENS IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD: HOMOSEXUALITY AND CHRISTIAN FAITH IN SOUTH AFRICA edited by Paul Germond and Steve de Gruchy (David Philip, R74,95) CHRISTIANITY has only recently begun to treat homosexuality as something other than a dire sin requiring, at worst, immolation, at best, conversion. The South African synod of Anglican […]
FW DE KLERK has obviously decided his golf game is more important than his place in history. How else does one explain the desertion of the political wisdom that was so manifest on February 2 1990, when he seemed to have the world at his feet? Surely this petty politician railing against the Truth and […]
FRIDAY, 3.00M KWV responded to the M&G report on Friday by saying the “unfounded allegations” are of a serious nature and potentially damaging to its goodwill and reputation. “Obviously KWV will have to consider its legal options with regard to this matter.” “Similar allegations appeared in the local and international media as far back as […]
Mira Nair, director of the controversial Kama Sutra, has moved to Cape Town. She spoke with DAVID BERESFORD THE story is told of how one of South Africa’s most powerful black women was involved in a minor traffic accident with a white motorist recently. Mamphela Ramphele, vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town, former director […]
ATHLETICS:Julian Drew LAST Saturday in the Dutch town of Hengelo Haile Gebrselassie missed out by a whisker on a million dollar pay-out for becoming the first man to run under eight minutes for two miles. By comparison, Hendrick Ramaala’s fifth place finish in the 10 000m for a new South African record of 27:36.30 was […]
Stefaans BrUmmer WHEN Nigeria bombarded Freetown this week in an attempt to dislodge Sierra Leone’s new coup leaders, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan applauded. But when signs of trouble became apparent some time before, the world was not so quick off the mark. After then president Ahmed […]
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As the peace process drags on, the overthrow of Mobutu has handed the government in Luanda an opportunity to move in on Unita’s rich diamond fields, writes Barnaby Phillips from Luanda A FORTNIGHT of fighting in Angola’s diamond-rich, north-eastern province of Lunda Norte has raised renewed doubts about the stability of the peace-keeping process – […]
hotel Chris McGreal in Kinshasa BREAKFASTS will never be the same at Kinshasa’s Intercontinental hotel. First the rebels’ arrival heralded the end of the almond croissants. Then came the business with the grenade. Just about the only person not disturbed by the little metal ball clattering on to the tiled floor and wandering its way […]
FRIDAY, 10.30AM BUSINESS confidence took a knock in May following the slowdown in gross domestic product growth in the first quarter. The SA Chamber of Business business confidence index fell 0,2 percentage points to 113,8 last month, its first drop following four consecutive months of increases. Sacob economic policy director Ben van Rensburg said Sacob […]
The national wine co-op has been implicated in trying to sell fake champagne to Europe and the US, report David Beresford and Mungo Soggot THE national co-operative which controls South Africa’s wine industry, KWV, has been implicated in a major swindle involving the attempted sale of fake champagne to Europe and the United States. Documents […]
Anthony Egan SOUTH AFRICA’S RADICAL TRADITION: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY. VOLUME ONE:1907-1950; VOLUME TWO: 1943-1964 edited by Allison Drew ( Buchu/Mayibuye /UCT Press, R79,99) TWENTIETH-CENTURY South African liberation movements owe a considerable debt to the radical left. The left has played a giant part in supporting – at times leading -the struggle for a non-racial democracy. […]
FRIDAY, 11.30AM RANDGOLD Resources, the offshore arm of Randgold & Exploration, is to raise between $120-million and $160-million when it lists on the London Stock Exchange later this month to fund gold expansion projects. Following research on the listing by a consortium of banks, 7-million new shares in Randgold Resources will be offered at a […]
salary raises Justin Arenstein JUDGE Willem Heath, head of South Africa’s most powerful investigation unit, slammed former Transkei military leader Bantu Holomisa this week for questioning the motives of his probe into possible irregular salary increases just before the 1994 elections. Holomisa said two weeks ago that the unit was conducting a malicious and unsubstantiated […]
Andrew Worsdale JONATHAN PATON, son of the writer Alan Paton, is unhappy with aspects of a television series about his father. The Principal, the story of the author’s years as a warden at Diepkloof Reformatory, is currently airing on SABC. And Paton junior has also received retractions from the Mail & Guardian and the Sunday […]
Toil and trouble in the cauldron of the University of the North. Ann Eveleth reports on the issues UNIVERSITY of the North students returned to classes last week after a three-week boycott over an issue directly affecting about 300 of the 14 500 students. But a tangled web of conflicting views over transformation remains – […]
ELISA PACHO has seven children, one of whom is adopted. Her husband David Pacho was a crew leader at Vaal Reefs. According to the NUM records, his older wife Irene Pacho has three children. Elisa Pacho lives in Maxixi, about three hours’ drive north of Maputo. Not all the children attend school; a financial squeeze […]
disaster Widows of the Vaal Reefs mine locomotive accident are destitute despite compensation, reports Ferial Haffajee THE National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is to claim additional compensation from Anglo American for the families of miners who died in the Vaal Reefs disaster. If successful, the multi-million-rand claim must be paid out by Rand Mutual, the […]
GLYNISO’HARA speaks to veteran songbird and survivor Tandie Klaasen about the release of her new CD IT’S been years – 24 years, in fact – since Tandie Klaasen’s face was set on fire in a senseless attack. “So don’t call me burnt face,” she says now, “just call me Tandie.” People still remark on it, […]
South Africa’s leprosy hospital, which dates from the Victorian era, will close next month, writes Dawn Blalock MONICA MAZIBUKO, a beautiful young woman with a shy smile, sits knitting in a patch of sunshine next to her hospital bed. Though she doesn’t appear sick, decades ago she would have been a virtual prisoner in this […]
Since his heroic role in the World Cup triumph Chester Williams has been plagued by injury, but he is determined to come back RUGBY: Mick Cleary CHESTER WILLIAMS arrived with a smile on his face. It’s a well-rehearsed facade, the image which greeted thousands of visitors to the 1995 World Cup in South Africa. Chester […]
Stephen Gray VOICES by Dacia Maraini (Serpent’s Tail, R86) ONE of Italy’s more famous women writers, Dacia Maraini, has now produced this little shocker, Voices, which appears in an English translation three years after it became a Euroseller. Maraini is known in South Africa, for the fine feminist works, The Silent Duchess and Isolina. Although […]
Mick Cleary THE 1997 British Lions could not be further removed from their celebrated battling ancestors. The game has moved on and the Lions are hell-bent on moving with it. While it’s true that the Lions need to have more edge and tightness in their forward play, their primary concern as they swing towards the […]
MALU VAN LEEUWEN arrived at the INXS concert in Cape Town a sceptic. She left the stadium a fan WHEN Michael Hutchence eases into the VIP hospitality area for the media “meet and greet” he’s powdered from temple to toe: Abba-blue eyeshadow, baby-blue checked flares, royal-blue buckled dandy shoes. So, Michael, how much easy listening […]
Richard Saunders FOLLOWING the controversy over the unsuccessful attempt to introduce a social clause to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) structure last year, new options for guaranteeing worldwide minimum labour standards are being set by opponents of the clause. The latest initiatives are led by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), whose members met in Geneva […]
FRIDAY, 11.30AM BUSINESS SA, in a meeting with Labour Minister Tito Mboweni on Thursday, suggested that negotiations on the Basic Conditions of Employment Bill in the National Economic, Development and Labour Council be postponed until after October’s presidential jobs summit. The suggestion comes as BSA tries to break a deadlock between business and the Congress […]