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/ 25 January 2008
It might console some to know that even though former Eskom CE Thulani Gcabashe stepped down with more than R6-million in his pocket for the 2006/07 financial year, he too sits in darkness when load-shedding rolls across the country. But then, if Gcahashe had a working light for every rand, he could power Johannesburg.
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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
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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/ 22 January 2008
Six local designers talk to Lynley Donnelly about inspiration, aspiration and the business of fashion in the run-up to Sanlam South African Fashion Week’s first winter event this weekend in downtown Johannesburg.
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/ 18 January 2008
Racial tension was on a knife-edge recently in the North West dorpie of Swartruggens, as the shocked community came to terms with Monday’s shoot out which left four people dead. A teenager, Johan Nel (18), was arrested. He is alleged to have gone on a shooting rampage in an informal settlement, Skielik, about 5km outside the town on Monday afternoon.
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/ 18 December 2007
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ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe has reiterated that policy would not change under a Zuma-led presidency and fears that the left tripartite alliance partners would force change were unfounded. Motlanthe said spontaneous policy change was not possible given the specific processes the ANC follow in formulating and adopting its policies.
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/ 18 December 2007
The idea of children crossing borders often conjures up images of paedophile rings, clandestine smuggling operations and helpless, vulnerable children, whisked away from their loved ones. Increasingly, however, foreign children living in South Africa are found to have left their homes willingly, in search of a better life here.
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/ 14 December 2007
In just six months South Africa has seen a 27% decrease in cash-in-transit (CIT) heists. This after police crime statistics in June showed that these attacks had increased by 21,9% during the preceding year. In the wake of a police operation that saw 11 CIT heist gang members die in a failed robbery in Limpopo on Tuesday, better police intelligence is the chief factor cited for more effective action against these attempts.
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/ 10 December 2007
As interest rate hikes tighten consumer purse strings, retailers are bracing themselves for a disappointing festive season. Large merchandisers, such as the JD Group and Woolworths, are reconciling themselves to a slowdown in festive season activity as volatile fuel prices and consumer indebtedness compounds the effects of interest rate increases on their customers.
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/ 10 December 2007
One small corner of the retail market is seeing business as usual at this time of year. Wholesale markets providing goods to informal traders, spaza shops and small businesses across South Africa are booming. Trade unions would blow a gasket if they went shopping on the outskirts of the Johannesburg CBD where developments such as China Mart and Dragon City provide goods ”off the boat” from China.