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/ 13 February 1998
Gino Rossi: Share World As the Asian economic turmoil abates, South African financial markets are again speculating about the possibility of an interest-rate cut. For the past three weeks the rumour mill has been spinning at a fast pace, particularly on Fridays when the South African Reserve Bank usually makes announcements about cuts in the […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Incentive schemes are big business, writes Belinda Beresford It’s nice to be wanted. It’s even nicer if your desirability is displayed in a concrete way, say by an exclusive lounge at the airport, special discounts on purchases, a bigger company car or even the odd little gift. Motivating people to do what you want is […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Nic Turner Despite their potential to cause chaos in computer systems, the majority of South African hackers are driven, like their counterparts around the world, by a passion for programming rather than the desire to cause malicious damage. The hacking scene in South Africa is disparate and fragmented, confined to white suburbia and small platteland […]
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/ 13 February 1998
bias Ann Eveleth Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Kader Asmal undertook this week to launch an inquiry into allegations that building consortium Group Five refused to consider highly qualified candidates for senior posts because they were black or female. Executive recruitment firm Dick Muller CC blew the whistle on the construction, engineering and works […]
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/ 13 February 1998
fiction Jeremy Cronin: Crossfire During the past months there has been kite- flying around the idea of a merger between the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party. Peter Mokaba, in the flurry of interventions he made prior to the ANC annual conference in December, punted the idea. The IFP’s Mangosuthu Buthelezi slapped down […]
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/ 13 February 1998
On the way to interview Joe Theron, publisher of Hustler and the largest porn- video distributor in the country, my taxi driver opined: “For this pornography thing, I’m a bit concerned about the area of morals. I think I can tell my child these things myself. My parents told me babies came from aeroplanes but […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Mercedes Sayagues Swaziland’s claims on land south of Maputo bolstered supporters of Mozambique’s decision last year to reintroduce compulsory military service. Mozambique, one of the world’s five poorest countries, will recruit 6 000 young men and women every year to strengthen its army. The military service Bill was pushed through Parliament by the ruling party […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Playwright Paul Slabolepszy has had 22 plays staged in almost as many years. So why, asks Charl Blignaut, does he have to impersonate Naas Botha at rugby matches to pay the bills? ‘All I actually want to do is stay home at the computer and write,” says Paul Slabolepszy once we have settled in as […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Battle lines are drawn over the Employment Equity Bill, write Marion Edmunds and Mungo Soggot All sides of the political spectrum dug in this week for what threatens to be the biggest parliamentary battle between now and the next elections: the government’s drive to take on white economic privilege. The Employment Equity Bill, due to […]
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/ 13 February 1998
Government’s hands-off approach has ensured an economic success story, writes Tim Trulock For 27 years, the former president of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda, nationalised not only the large flagship companies, but also many small, nickel-and-dime operations. The government became the major shareholder in Zambia and then proceeded to run it into the ground, destroying not only […]