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/ 25 January 2008
South Africa has plenty of energy available. The problem is, we don’t have enough power. Some of the country’s biggest businesses have been queuing up to sell power to Eskom. The potential power on the table — all 5 000MW of it — is almost equivalent to two Koeberg-sized nuclear power stations.
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/ 25 January 2008
Stand up, the real Gwede Gwede Mantashe, the ANC’s new secretary general, is commendably frank about the way the ANC thinks it is going to achieve the impossible — meeting the widespread expectations from within its own ranks for radical change while not spooking the market (‘What now for the ANC?” January 11). Mantashe expects […]
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/ 25 January 2008
Almost a decade on, Tanzania’s tiny stock exchange is still working hard to convince sceptical businesses it is a cost-effective way to raise capital and expand. "The problem is that not many people understand the mechanics of the stock exchange and how it operates. That takes time," Jonathan Njau, CEO of the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE), says in an interview at his downtown office.
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/ 25 January 2008
Ministers, directors general and senior government officials are now at risk of getting the chop if they don’t improve in running their departments. This follows a decision by Cabinet not to accept the perennial excuses that departments give Parliament when called to explain their qualified audit reports, writes Mandy Rossouw.
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/ 25 January 2008
At the second appearance of accused Skielik murderer Johan Nel recently in Swartruggens, it was clear that racial tensions in the town had not died down. His appearance at the town’s magistrate’s court attracted different groups, each with its own agenda. Local politicians insisted that Nel’s shooting spree was a ”racially charged” crime.
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/ 25 January 2008
While Eskom heads rake in about R35-million a year, a large number of the company’s general workers could be out of pocket. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Solidarity and the National Union of Metalworkers South Africa (Numsa) are protesting against Eskom’s implementation of a new job-grading programme late last year.
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/ 25 January 2008
Chinese terrorists are streaming across the border. Barack Obama is a violent socialist. Mexico has been launching military attacks against the United States. God has endorsed Mike Huckabee. Spend a week with Republicans in South Carolina and you will hear the most incredible things. That a small minority in any group might say crazy things is not surprising, writes Gary Younge.
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/ 25 January 2008
Despite a national energy crisis in South Africa, the country’s energy-saving strategies remain fractured and lacklustre, several analysts told the Mail & Guardian this week. At a time when South Africans, both in industry and in the private sector, should be working together to save power, there seems to be a fractured response to what needs to be done.
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/ 25 January 2008
If it’s not energy efficiency, it’s power rationing; if it’s not power-rationing, it’s load-shedding; if it’s not load-shedding it’s blackouts; and if it’s blackouts – well it’s just one big gemors. South Africa’s power crisis has commercial, industrial and domestic power users pulling their hair out in frustration as they search for ways to save power. But what can be done, and how?
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/ 25 January 2008
She looks down while washing dishes in a bucket as we enter the house where she lives with 56 people scattered around the house and on the property. “Please sit down. Sorry, the couch is a bit wet,” she says. It is striking how dignified she looks while sitting up straight in a pink dress with her hands folded on her lap.