If you find yourself attracted to shares in the building and construction sector, you had better make sure you have a stomach for volatility. Building and construction stocks are among the most variable on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. An analyst at Nedcor Investment Bank explains that performance in the sector is really a function of […]
Chris Ball Switched-on managements who know that stress and poor performance are bedfellows are bringing in outside industrial agony aunts to counsel employees. Up to 25% of all United States staff are now covered by so-called employee assistance programmes (EAPs). In Britain, the schemes only cover about 6% or 1,3-million of the working population so […]
Lizeka Mda: CITY LIMITS The traffic on Jan Smuts Avenue is crawling at a snail’s pace on Friday morning. Oxford Road is no better. So what else is new? To the traffic chaos on its doorstep, the Park Hyatt hotel at the corner of Oxford and Biermann Avenue in Rosebank presents an inscrutable face of […]
FRIDAY: 4.00PM PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela will only consider intervening in the violence-torn taxi industry if Transport Minister Mac Maharaj requests his assistance, presidential aide Parks Mankahlana said on Friday. Even then, Mankahlana said, National Taxi Drivers’ Organisation’s demands that Mandela declare a state of emergency in the industry are impractical, as the industry does not […]
Tracy Murinik On show in Cape Town “Everything is art,” I am informed as I sit down for the interview. Well, that should leave impotent and irrelevant those irksome and defensive little retorts of “but is it art?” that often riddle commentary around work that cannot be mounted flush against a wall. “Even when you […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer The curtain finally comes down on a seemingly endless South African soccer season this Sunday when Orlando Pirates and Sundowns contest the Bob Save Super Bowl final. Pirates have played 52 domestic and African matches since last July and Sundowns 51, so do not be surprised if some players look a little […]
Melvyn Minnaar Potable pleasures Drinking and flying is not on. Even if you’re not piloting the long-haul Boeing, alcohol indulgence is bad for your body. The hours spent physically static and confined to a seat in a pressurised cabin, exposed to the ensuing dehydration, is not the recommended condition for a cocktail party, never mind […]
For a few weeks in May ’68 in Paris, students and workers united in a wave of strikes and demonstrations that seemed poised to overturn the old order. Peter Lennon was in the thick of things I don’t remember the precise incident that made it clear to me that this time, this particular turmoil was […]
Neil Manthorp Cricket Few tours begin with such mutual agreement on the key factors; the turning point, if you like, has been firmly decided upon, even though the tour-bus has hardly left its London garage. The four most talked-about men since South Africa arrived have been Allan Donald, Shaun Pollock, Alec Stewart and Michael Atherton. […]
Michael Nurok Given that the number of people who die each year of malaria is equal to the cumulative number of Aids-related deaths in 15 years, one would expect at least equal amounts of money to be spent on research. Yet less than 10% of the amount spent on international HIV research goes into malaria […]