SA designers will visit Niger to share their ideas on growing the industry in Africa, writes Lynley Donnelly.
Lynley Donnelly meets Carlo Gibson and Ziemek Pater, the minds behind fashion label Strangelove.
The Soweto Showcase marks the start of a two-week orgy of fashion in Johannesburg, writes Lynley Donnelly.
It is all a bit unseemly; rather like the bill arriving after a meal at a restaurant and no one offering to pay it. In Eskom’s case, the matter is complicated by the fact that outsiders do not have enough information to work out how the bill is made up so that costs can be apportioned fairly.
How do you hide a R1-billion fortune from the taxman? With bespoke help from offshore bankers desperate to get their hands on your portfolio, documents emerging from the long-running battle between the South African Revenue Service and its number one target, Dave King, suggest.
Business across the continent is set to become harder for South Africans, following the wave of xenophobic attacks against foreigners in the past few weeks.
This is according to businessman and president of Business Leadership South Africa Saki Macozoma.
Love him or hate him, lights on or load shed, Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin has been one of Cabinet’s most influential individuals.The brain behind massive development projects and one of the government’s main sources of the ”really big idea”, Erwin’s announcement that he will resign come 2009 is likely to lead to a substantially changed economic landscape.
Eskom’s sudden ability to stop load-shedding despite months of not having enough capacity to meet national demand has confused public and industry insiders. Experts say that the saving through power outages outweighed the economic costs, and this had led Eskom to stop its power cuts, although the desired 10% reduction in demand had not been met.
Valued at R34-billion, or ,4-billion — more than dollar billionaire Patrice Motsepe’s empire — Royal Bafokeng Holdings, the investment arm of the Royal Bafokeng Nation, has added about R2-billion to its asset base through its recent BEE deal with Vodacom.
Valued at R34-billion, or ,4-billion — more than dollar billionaire Patrice Motsepe’s empire — Royal Bafokeng Holdings, the investment arm of the Royal Bafokeng Nation, has added about R2-billion to its asset base through its recent BEE deal with Vodacom.