Lynda Gilfillan DRINK That exotic margarita you’ve just knocked back may well have come from the Karoo. Tequila is being made in a great white barn of a building outside Graaff-Reinet and is exported to Europe. Agave Distillers, a partnership between South African and French investors Rockwood and Hines, is pioneering the distilling of tequila […]
Count Riccardo Agusta the Italian helicopter company heir and a top investor in South Africa sees no wrong in his relationship with mafia man Vito Palazzolo Stefaans Brmmer Count Riccardo “Rocky” Agusta has had a hectic decade. As a racing driver he endured Le Mans and Daytona. As an entrepreneur he invested around the globe. […]
AT least six people were killed and 13 wounded after fighting erupted in south Mogadishu on Thursday, witnesses and medical sources said. The clashes pitted militiamen of Somali warlord Hussein Mohamed Aidid against Somali Transitional National Government (TNG) policemen, the witness said. A medical officer said two people were killed and four wounded after a […]
James Campbell Glue by Irvine Welsh (Jonathan Cape) Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting was about a bunch of daft lads (or sub-psychopaths) whose violence and amorality were supposedly explained by their origins in soulless Edinburgh housing schemes. They devoured drink, drugs and wee lassies by the ton. The one thing that inspired them was tribal loyalty: they […]
Despite its drawbacks, the initiative opens the way for a new, positive international engagement with the continent Greg Mills The finer details of the Millennium Partnership for the African Recovery Programme (MAP) will be revealed, we are told, after the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) summit in Lusaka next month. The MAP concept has apparently […]
The women’s African Cup of Nations was held in South Africa late last year but the national team has not been in action since and the momentum created by the tournament is ebbing away Marianne Merten Could you imagine Bafana Bafana striker Benni McCarthy working as a gaardjie, or guard, on a taxi route through […]
BEER giant South African Breweries (SAB) has acquired a controlling 76%- interest in Mysore Breweries Limited through its subsidiary company SAB India (SABI), the company said on Thursday. It paid $17,6-million dollars, or 500 rupees per share, for the stake. Under the terms of Securities and Exchange Board of India regulations, a simultaneous public offer […]
Facing the challenges of Aids may be too much for the medical profession, writes a children’s doctor at a large hospital I am an ordinary South African doctor working with sick children in a South African hospital. My colleagues the doctors and nurses and many other professional people are also ordinary. We do our daily […]
Andre Vos was sacked in the time-honoured ham-fisted manner Andy Capostagno There is no easy way to change a Springbok captain. Naas Botha announced his retirement in front of astonished team-mates at a post-Test match function in London. Francois Pienaar was carried off the field on a stretcher at Newlands and never played for his […]
Thebe Mabanga music Bongo Maffin remains one of kwaito’s most eclectic and captivating phenomenons. A recent example of this was provided when the group undertook a promotional tour for their latest album, Bongolution, last Friday. Their guests of honour were about 20 children from Cotlands and Nkosi’s Haven two sanctuaries for HIV-positive kids whom they […]
ZAMBIA has run out of accommodation to house delegates at the upcoming summit of the Organisation for African Unity (OAU), government officials and diplomats said on Wednesday. A housing complex intended for the visiting presidents, dubbed the OAU village, was abandoned after it become clear that it would not be finished in time for the […]
Jay Parini On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks (Hutchinson) Sebastian Faulks has become an international sensation, attracting countless readers to his entertaining French trio, The Girl at the Lion d’Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray. Now, with a surprising shift of scene, comes On Green Dolphin Street. Rather as you do with a decent television […]
Glenda Daniels and David Macfarlane New employer incentives are now available to companies that participate in the government’s massive programme to combat the country’s crisis of unemployment and skills shortage especially among the youth. While all companies contribute to the national skills development levy, regulations published in the Government Gazette this month allow employers to […]
friday Athletics: IAAF Golden League, from Rome, at 8.25pm on SuperSport International (SSInt) Golf: Irish Open, from Cork, at 4pm on SuperSport2 (SS2); Greater Hartford Open, from Cromwell, Connecticut, at 8pm on SS2 Tennis: Wimbledon at 1pm on SSInt/CSN saturday Cricket: One-day international (ODI) triangular series, fourth match, Zimbabwe vs West Indies from Queens Sports […]
SA President Thabo Mbeki arrived in Germany on Thursday for a one-day visit during which he will brief German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on his Millennium Africa Recovery Programme (Map). Mbeki says the recovery programme would oblige Africa to fight Aids, end its wars, lower investment risks, root out corruption and diversify production. Mbeki’s visits form […]
Neal Collins tennis Richard Williams is not your typical dad. He boasts that, when Venus and Serena were barely big enough to peer over the net, he paid neighbours to yell racial insults at his girls while they played. “You can’t wait for a situation to happen to get ready for it,” says the rags-to-richest […]
After the dot.com crash, the finger pointing started, reports Edward Hellmore How the mighty have fallen. Little more than a year ago Jeff Bezos was flying high. The price of Amazon.com shares was in the stratosphere and the company’s beaming 38-year-old CEO was being lionised as Time magazine’s Man of the Year. Supported by the […]
Dumisani Zulu Right To Reply Since the beginning of the Alexandra relocation process in February more than 6000 households have been successfully moved from the banks of the Jukskei river. This comprises 4501 households to Diepsloot, 1032 households to temporary base (Ext 7), 448 households to Bramfischerville and 1617 structures that were vacated before the […]
ARCHEOLOGISTS have discovered the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh with the aid of a papyrus document they now realize could help them find more royal tombs, antiquities officials said on Thursday. A German working on the west bank of the Nile near present-day Luxor found the tomb of Nubkeperre Inyotef, who is believed to have […]
Cape Town | Thursday A 71-year-old man who played Father Christmas at a Cape Town children’s hospital last year appeared in court Wednesday on child porn charges. Police representative Captain Rod Beer said more than 5_000 photographs depicting children as young as four in sexual acts with adults were discovered on James McNeil’s computers. Members […]
AT least 27 people were killed on Monday in a massacre in the central Nigerian state of Nasarawa, State Governor Abdullahi Adamu told reporters on Wednesday. We lost a substantial number of people … There were 27 people confirmed dead and we had yesterday 47 on admission,” in a hospital in the state capital Lafia, […]
THE South African cabinet on Wednesday defused a political row over the multi-million dollar salary paid to the former head of South African Airlines (SAA). It admitted that there had been irregularities in negotiating US national Coleman Andrews’ pay package but said both government and the former boss of the airline’s parent company Transnet had […]
THE Department of Public Works has launched a toll free Ethics Hotline, government announced on Thursday, as part of “its national strategy to fight corruption and improve its service delivery.” According to a department press release, the hotline forms part of a strategy that includes education, prevention and prosecution. Information can be submitted to the […]
ACTING Opec president Chakib Khelil of Algeria on Tuesday appeared to rule out an increase in oil production in the near future. “We can see that oil reserves are currently at their highest level, that there is a lot of crude on the market and sufficient petrol despite the halt in Iraq’s exports of crude,” […]
JEAN-MICHEL STOULLIG, Washington | Thursday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki used his visit to the United States to show his commitment to fight the plague of Aids in his country, but was unable to quiet critics of his controversial positions on the disease. The president kept the disease front and centre during his trip, discussing […]
SEVEN foreign firms and a Nigerian company are seeking to invest in the 51% equity put up for sale in Nigeria’s ship-building and repair company, Nigerdock, officials said on Wednesday. Nigeria’s privatisation agency, the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) received the applications before the June 18 close of bidding, BPE representative Joseph Anichebe said. The […]
Mbabane | Thursday THREE youths from southern Swaziland were found guilty by a traditional Swazi court on Wednesday of carrying out a rampage of attacking single women while disguised as primates. The youths, wearing baboon suits, had demanded food and sex from single and widowed women, after invading their homes in the Ezikhotheni area at […]
THE South African Communist Party (SACP) in the Northern Province officially launched its Red Weekend Against Blacklisting campaign in Pietersburg on Tuesday. Provincial SACP secretary Justice Piitso said the campaign, which is demanding that banks provide easier access to credit and that credit bureaus be regulated, is part of the SACP programme of Mass Mobilisation […]
THE Ministry of Social Development has announced the death of another inmate at the Noupoort Christian rehabilitiation unit for drug and alcohol addicts. The latest death was that of a 15-year-old, Theo Hurley. Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya has ordered an urgent investigation into the death, the second in two months at the centre which […]
PETER CUNLIFFE-JONES, Tudun Adabu | Thursday RESIDENTS of this village in a remote corner of central Nigeria say that 58 people died when ethnic Tiv youths attacked the area two days ago, the worst single reported massacre in a spate of ethnic killing. News of the massacre in Tudun Abadu when it reached the Nasarawa […]
UP to 27% of the active urban population in Ethiopia is unemployed, most of them aged between 15 and 24, according to an International Labour Organisation (ILO) official. Assefa Bequehe ascribed the unemployment problem partly to “the sluggish performance of the Ethiopian economy over the last 20 or 25 years.” The Horn of Africa country […]
ZIMBABWE’S central bank is soon to issue a Z$500 note and a Z$5 coin. News reports quoted Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe spokesperson Ignatius Mabasa saying on Sunday that the new denominations were “for the convenience of the public”. There have been calls for several months for new denominations to be introduced as rampant inflation forces […]