Yearly Archives: 2001

Niki Moore Imagine a school where you learn how to set up a business, are taught how to please your customers, how to manage your money and how to market your product. Just to take it one step further, your teacher then introduces you to potential clients, lends you money, organises storage for your goods, […]

Khadija Magardie A combination of poorly run, decrepit facilities, untrained technicians and the use of inferior-quality animals could lay waste to claims by vivisectionists in South Africa that their experimentation on animals is of any scientific benefit. A recently released study commissioned by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) warns […]

Needy pensioners in the Western Cape are being provided with full sets of teeth for free Rob Davies Most of us take having a full set of teeth for granted. We pay no thought to crunching up a packet of crisps, navigating our way through a mealie or pulverising a pizza. Yet there are many […]

Niki Moore It took a series of natural disasters before the Zululand Chamber of Business Foundation (ZCBF) was established. In 1985 a cyclone swept away rural dwellings in Zululand and left thousands homeless. Local businesses jumped in to help, led by Richard’s Bay Coal Terminal CEO Mike Dunn. They raised R200000 in relief and founded […]

Jake la Motta is still raging at 80 Steve Bunce It is an image the cinema gave boxing, a sentiment all fighters understand and the dialogue was worth an Oscar. It is Jake la Motta looking in a mirror and telling himself he could have been somebody and it happened most nights for 20 years […]

Townships are being uplifted through the efforts of Food and Trees for Africa Thabo Mohlala Martha Boshomane grew up liking trees, so when Food and Trees for Africa donated trees to the people of the newly developed Tsutsumani All Africa Games housing project she was naturally over the moon. Martha is one of the beneficiaries […]

After years on Mount Baldy, a Buddhist retreat, Leonard Cohen has finally found peace. He talks to Nick Paton Walsh about drink, drugs and women Leonard Cohen is the high priest of pathos. His voice exudes misery. A suicidal Kurt Cobain, when describing the most melancholic place imaginable, in his dirge Penny Royal Tea, sang […]

REVIEW David Shapshak All Africa Internet Guide by Libby Young (M&G Books) Despite being a part of the so-called Third World, all 54 countries in Africa have a Web presence and you can access the Internet from them. But finding out about websites and navigating the Internet is as difficult as doing it physically. Thankfully […]

Mail & Guardian reporters “South Africa’s success stories of tomorrow are not yet in business today,” says Hugh Herman, chairperson of the Investec Group. “If meaningful empowerment comes with the creation of sustainable employment, then we all have a role to play in helping small business take root.” Investec feels strongly about stimulating a vibrant […]

Tusi Fokane There are just days to go before the 30-day Arts Alive Television (ATV) broadcasting licence expires, with-out any part of the promised Johannesburg spring cultural festival being broadcast. Instead, the programmes packaged for the festival may find a slot on Lesotho Television. ATV cites a number of reasons for this failure, ranging from […]