Neil Thomas I very much admired the way Lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox stuck to her guns on a television programme last week. When gently sautd rather than grilled over the pricing of the flotation of Lastminute, she admirably stuck by the decision to float at that level and managed, in the space of a […]
Howard Barrell OVER A BARREL Looking to a bureaucrat to stimulate entrepreneurial activity is rather like asking a journalist to forget his or her sense of superficiality. It is about as well-directed an expectation as striking to persuade your employer to create more jobs, or calling on millions to hate capitalism in order to attract […]
Julie Flint reports from Sudan’s frontline where hunger is now used as a weapon of war against the ancient Nuba tribe In a few weeks, barring miracles, the children in this region of southern Sudan will begin to die – if not from hunger, then from disease. Most families are living in the open, without […]
UGANDAN coffee exports were down 45% year in April to 94953 60-kg bags due to a poor harvest and slower deliveries as farmers held out for better prices, officials said on Thursday. “Trading activities were extremely low during the month largely due to temporary suspension of operations by some volume movers,” the Ugandan Coffee Development […]
Born in a township, she spent her first six months in jail with her mother. As a successful singer forced into exile by Pretoria, she became a symbol of resistance. Now back home and with a new album, she has become a totem of the African renaissance Maya Jaggi When Miriam Makeba left South Africa […]
Anyone who argues for socialism will find allies in the ANC, the party’s secretary general said this week Jaspreet Kindra African National Congress secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe this week committed the party to the cause of socialism and said South Africa should follow the Chinese and Cuban socialist models of economic policy. In a wide-ranging […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Pretoria | Friday 9.15pm. THE Northern Bulls ended the season on a high by winning their first Super 12 match in 11 starts this season when they beat the Hurricanes 47-33 at Loftus Stadium in Pretoria on Friday. The home team withstood a tenacious late charge, scoring two tries in the dramatic 17 […]
David Le Page You may just have recovered from your Lovebug woes. But if you’re a Hotmail user, don’t breathe easy just yet. A new security flaw in the Microsoft-owned free e-mail service has been uncovered, which potentially allows crackers (malevolent hackers) to access your Hotmail account, read and delete your mail, and send messages […]
As the HIV/Aids crisis in the region deepens, it is adding to the social decay in Zimbabwe Mercedes Sayagues Zimbabwe was billed as a peaceful country, with low crime and racial tension – far safer than South Africa. A constitutional referendum took place in February without any violence. Today, mob rule and terror reign. How […]
Stephen Gray LIFESTYLE Once, for my sins, a man whose name really was Paul von Blixem approached me. He ran a mampoer distillery and his mission was to widen the appeal of his product, an important patriotic beverage, to English- speakers, not just to lying, lazy louts in the backveld. And to tourists, that was […]