Yearly Archives: 2001

Companies are stalling on repatriating their export earnings Mungo Soggot and David Macfarlane A leading South African economist, SG Securities Nico Czypionka, says South African companies listed offshore are maximising their returns by taking their cash flows offshore. Czypionka is referring to outflows to South African companies listed abroad, which, he says, “are a major […]

Jaspreet Kindra The Treatment Action Campaigns crusade for the provision of anti-retroviral drugs to people living with HIV/Aids is to serve as a model for a civic campaign for the expropriation of land from absentee landlords, and of unutilised or underutilised land. Frustrated with what they consider the governments inadequate land reform policies, the South […]

Africa would go a long way towards solving its problems if Africans acknowledged their role in causing the mess it is in, writes Shyaka Kanuma Will South Africa work now that political power is firmly in the hands of the black majority? This apparently impudent, patronising question has been asked a million times since 1994. […]

The Mother CityQueer Project onDecember 15 at the River Club is themed Farm Fresh (above) and should be lots of fun. There are also the loveparade on December 16 in long Street and DJ/producer Seb Fontaine playing at 96 Degrees on December 19. Port Elizabeth has the SABCMandela Metro Music Summer Festival on December 16 […]

Q&A: PETERCOHEN Matthew Krouse Bright Blue is South African musics cutest success story, a band that has bridged form and time. Their lively jive sound, mixed with the rythms of mbaqanga, became popular on the early multiracial music circuit of the 1980s, a time of musical protest to apartheid, coming from even the most middle […]

Professor Mbeki (PhD. www) secures a place in historys Hall of Shame NO blows BARRED Sipho Seepe Great leaders “make the times” by delighting us with new insights and perspectives. Their profound insights, often beyond our comprehension, advance thought and influence subsequent thinking. The likes of Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Malcom X […]

Nawaal Deane The Office of the President has become embroiled in a dispute over outstanding debts of the South African Chapter of the African Renaissance (Sacar), a supposedly independent body formed to change negative perceptions of the continent. An advertising and events-management firm, Vukani Ma Afrika, has accused Sacar of dodging the payment of accounts […]

REVIEW Gavin Foster Ford Mondeo 2,0 Ghia R183 000 The problem with being a car salesman today is that there are so few bad cars around. Many years ago buyers had limited choices, and the differences were clear cut. The guy who walked in through the door was a Ford man, or a Chev man, […]

Nieps board now hardly fuctioning Glenda Daniels An exodus of economists is under way from what was once one of the countrys most influential economic think-tanks, the African National Congresss National Institute for Economic Policy (Niep). More than half of Nieps economists have left for the private sector, government and academia this year, or are […]

In his November 30 commentary (“The war in Afghanistan is a means to another end”) Firoz Osman makes outrageous claims concerning United States goals in the war on terrorism. According to Osman, the US attack on terrorism in Afghanistan is linked to oil in Central Asia rather than the brutal attacks on the US on […]