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/ 2 December 1994
Critical Consumer Pat Sidley JUST when you thought it was safe to dump your increasingly expensive Telkom phone and service and invest in a cellular alternative, Telkom has opted for legal action to make it less tempting to get the “better connection”. Court action — which was postponed this week, but will go ahead in […]
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/ 2 December 1994
Media and Marketing Clive Simpkins MARKET-SHARE greed versus service standards calls for scrutiny in the cellular telephone industry. I was advised by an overseas cellular guru that on the launch of cellular services, the existing telephone network operator is usually in a better technical position for the first year or so. It is then typically […]
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/ 2 December 1994
What spurred last week’s panic attack at the JSE and what should investors do to prevent future losses? Jacques Magliolo reports BEARS had a field day last week when the Johannesburg Stock Exchange overall index fell a mere 100 points. No sooner had the index fallen in line with Wall Street — on the back […]
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/ 2 December 1994
COUNTRIES listed in the 1989 version of Log 17 are as follows. Group Three (sales prohibited): Zambia, Zimbabwe and Tanzania as well as Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Kampuchea (a note states this depended on “the course of peace negotiations”), Laos, Libya, Mongolia, Syria, South Yemen, Nicaragua, North Korea, Vietnam and Russia. Group […]
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/ 2 December 1994
Key ambassadorial postings are expected to be announced within the next fortnight. Mduduzi ka Harvey looks at the main contenders GRATITUDE for services rendered, face-saving and political balancing acts will all have a bearing on key ambassadorial postings expected to be announced by President Nelson Mandela within the next fortnight. Among those tipped for important […]
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/ 2 December 1994
The King Committee report won’t satisfy everybody, but it’s a good start to more openness and accountability by companies at board level. Reg Rumney reports COMPANIES will soon be under pressure to reveal exactly how much directors as a group earn. But individual salaries of the top dogs in the corporate pack — unlike in […]
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/ 2 December 1994
Insiders predict there will be little, if any, change to the ANC executive at its national conference. Gaye Davis reports HIGH-LEVEL efforts are under way to persuade Cyril Ramaphosa to stay on as ANC secretary general, as his supporters rally against a bid to sideline him and concern mounts that a bruising power struggle may […]
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/ 2 December 1994
A tendency for films to celebrate the evil of violence brings censorship closer, argues Reg Rumney AS a writer I feel bound to oppose censorship because I will contest anything that tries to limit artistic expression. As an ordinary person I increasingly favour censorship, particularly of violence. This was distilled for me by Natural Born […]
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/ 2 December 1994
Mduduzi ka Harvey THE Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) has split, amid accusations that the leadership has given undue priority to police issues, misused union money and failed to resolve internal problems. The newly formed breakaway group, the Correctional Officers Union of South Africa (Cousa) — launched last week by prison staffers and […]
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/ 2 December 1994
RUGBY: Andy Capostagno IT has been well documented that Ireland is a place where the unusual happens on a regular basis. And so when the greatest rugby player of all time walked into the Springbok hotel, ignored the tourists and invited their baggage master to dinner it should really have come as no surprise. When […]