Penge started out as a short stopover for
Kevin Davie while on a cycling trip. But he was drawn back by the inhabitants living amid poisonous dust.
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies’s ‘new’ industrial policy contains ideas that are old and tired.
We can be thankful that it was Gwede Mantashe and not Julius Malema who mooted the idea of nationalising the Reserve Bank.
The ‘E’ word, electricity, hardly got a mention in the budget; private supply seems a distant dream.
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/ 20 February 2010
The fuss around Carl Niehaus obscures a much more serious matter.
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/ 10 February 2010
If ever there was a poster for why nationalisation sucks, Alexcor, Eskom, SAA, SABC, Denel and Sentech would feature boldly and largely on it.
Concentrating on two massively expensive power stations, and ignoring independent producers, could be the parastatal’s downfall.
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/ 15 January 2010
<i>Kevin Davie</i> argues that canoeist Graeme Pope-Ellis is the country’s pre-eminent sportsman.
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/ 11 January 2010
Want to save yourself some serious money? Try investing in electric bike futures, writes Kevin Davie.
Nothing pulls in the audiences like the World Cup. But how do the rands and cents stack up? Kevin Davie explains.