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/ 5 December 2007
A new report calls for special consideration when it
comes to the housing needs of abused women.
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/ 5 December 2007
The Mail & Guardian‘s recent Critical Thinking Forum drew in a stellar group of panellists to discuss the hotly debated topic of BEE and who the process really benefits. Held at the Gordon Institute of Business Science in Johannesburg, the debate, titled BEE: Is it a rip-off? Who really benefits?, was moderated by Judge Dennis Davis.
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/ 5 December 2007
On an enormous whiteboard outside the bustling kitchens of the School of Tourism and Hospitality (STH) at the University of Johannesburg hangs a list of events planned for the coming weeks. With 2010 not far off, the skills required by the tourism and hospitality industry will be drawn from schools like the STH.
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/ 3 December 2007
A report by the Institute for Security Studies and Transparency International Zimbabwe claims that corruption and poor management are hampering the fight against HIV/Aids. The report, which will be launched on December 12, explores why the massive increase in South Africa’s HIV/Aids funding on a national level has had so little effect in halting the pandemic.
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/ 27 November 2007
In a country with a massive skills shortage in almost every sector, Edcon is one company doing its bit to change that. Aggressively recruiting graduates from across Southern Africa, the company grounds them in the principles of retail through their retail academy; skills with which no university can provide graduates, says Edcon.
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/ 23 November 2007
Mutual & Federal is putting some auto-body repairers’ noses out of joint in an attempt to deal with corruption from rogue operators that could be costing insurers billions. Recently the National Guild of Auto-Body Repairers marched from Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown, Johannesburg, to Mutual & Federal’s head office in the city centre to protest against "unfair" contracts it claims members are being forced to sign.
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/ 16 November 2007
Take three men, one woman, two kettle braais and a rooftop in Braamfontein and what do you get? The battle of the braais, of course — to ascertain which kettle braai brand gives consumers the best braai for their money. Granted a poolside braai, six storeys high on Jozi’s Jorrisen Street, with a woman at the tong-helm, so to speak, aren’t elements traditionally associated with the quintessential cook-off.
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/ 12 November 2007
Erecting 200 houses in a week might sound improbable. Erecting 200 houses, a community centre and creating a communal garden in just seven days sounds downright impossible. But 1 380 international volunteers from the Niall Mellon Township Trust aim to do just that. The ”building blitz”, taking place in Mitchells Plain in the Western Cape this week, follows three similar campaigns the charity has undertaken.
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/ 9 November 2007
While the plastic bag tax has become a cash cow for government, bringing in R221-million since 2004, the company tasked with promoting the recycling of plastic bags is struggling to get off the ground. Buyisa-e-Bag, the company in question, has seen a mere R44-million of the funds generated since it became fully operational in 2005, leaving R177-million to churn around in the general fiscus.
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/ 6 November 2007
As a teenager I found a book by Elizabeth Hand called the Aestival Tide. It was a bizarre and terrifying vision of the future, blighted by nuclear disaster and man’s own monstrosity; a book that I couldn’t forget although I never found anything else by Hand … until now that is, writes Lynley Donnelly.