Mthuthuzeli has long pushed for change in his area of the Eastern Cape, but it hasn’t happened, so ‘the comforter’ is going a different route.
Sisonke Jaca is passionate about three things, especially the third: football, dancing and politics. He wants to make a difference to people’s lives.
Nonkululeko Gobodo has started a new venture that she believes will help to groom the kind of leaders South Africa desperately needs.
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/ 12 February 2008
Cellphone operator Cell C expects full-year core profit to rise by over 30% as a turn-around plan pays off, its chief financial officer said on Tuesday. Newly appointed CFO Fabrizio Mambrini said the struggling firm expected growth in revenue to be ”quite outstanding”.
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/ 1 February 2008
South African mines made slow progress in bringing back production on Friday after Eskom allowed them to make only limited increases to their electricity consumption. The power cuts that shut the mines a week ago have helped push global precious metals prices to record highs and stoked concerns about a slowdown of growth.
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/ 19 November 2007
The battle to lead the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has boiled down to President Thabo Mbeki and his former deputy, Jacob Zuma, in a clash that has shaken the party to its core. There are no signs that an economic boom will end anytime soon but millions of South Africans mired in poverty are waiting for the ANC to ease their hardships.
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/ 19 October 2007
As a wax model of English rugby star Jonny Wilkinson joined the statue of national hero Horatio Nelson in London’s Trafalgar Square, attention in both England and South Africa was on Friday focused on the looming Rugby World Cup final between the two nations.
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/ 13 September 2007
South Africa’s solid economic fundamentals should help it weather current turmoil in global financial markets, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Wednesday. South Africa’s rand currency and stock markets have swung wildly over the past few weeks amid turmoil in financial markets in the face of a global credit crunch.
South African hard-line apartheid-era minister of law and order Adriaan Vlok and four co-accused received suspended sentences on Friday after pleading guilty to attempting to murder a leading black activist cleric in 1989.
South African electricity tariffs are likely to keep rising steeply as the country tries to fund a massive spending programme to upgrade its power network, Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin said on Friday. Africa’s largest economy has suffered a series of power failures over the past couple of years as it struggles to keep up with faster economic growth.