The Democratic Party has policies, leaders, energy and razzmatazz — everything except supporters. Marion Edmunds reports from last weekend’s Federal Congress A Kimberley man walked into his local Democratic Party (DP) office before the last elections and said: “I’m not going to vote for the DP, but I’m registering here because I don’t trust any […]

Karen Harverson Multinational hamburger chain McDonald’s is on track to=20 open its first two restaurants in South Africa despite=20 the fact that the court case over the rights to its=20 trademark has not yet been resolved. South African George Sombonos, owner of franchise chain=20 Chicken Licken, is seeking the right to expunge=20 McDonald’s trademark from […]

Jon Swift AT THE root of all the current upheaval and litigation=20 facing world rugby union is the insistence by the game’s=20 authorities that the game be an amateur sport. This=20 iconoclasm, this sticking to the ideals of a bygone era,=20 is rooted in the breakaway just on 100 years ago, when=20 some of the […]

Trade and investment are necessary to set Africa back on=20 the road toward economic development. Karen Harverson=20 Africa urgently needs trade and investment to drive its=20 development which is slower now than it was 30 years=20 ago, says one of Southern Africa’s leading economists. Tony Hawkins, professor of Business Studies at the=20 University of Zimbabwe, […]

Meshack Mabogoane reports on the National Sorghum=20 Breweries’ deal with United Breweries National Sorghum Breweries’ (NSB) announcement this week=20 that India’s United Breweries (UB) would have a say in=20 the appointment of senior management marks a turning=20 point in its five-year history . The UB deal, sealed this week, is the first and most=20 substantive […]

Some of the freshest talent in local fashion has found a=20 new home at Cape Town’s Young Designers’ Emporium. MALU=20 VAN LEEUWEN reports=20 LAST week, a new shop flung open its doors in Cape Town.=20 Nothing wildly unusual about that, except that, for the=20 first time, this shop gathers under one roof 10 aspirant=20 South […]

School feeding schemes in the Eastern Cape have collapsed due to fraud and mismanagement, report Pat Sidley and Rod Amner President Nelson Mandela’s flagship presidential project, the school feeding scheme, has ground to a halt in the Eastern Cape. Fraud and incompetence has consumed the province’s R114-million budget for the year in just four months. […]

Eddie Koch Farmers in the Potchefstroom district fear vast tracts of arable land in the North-West have been damaged by radioactive waste and contaminated ground water from neighbouring gold mines. The Council for Nuclear Safety (CNS) last month completed a R5-million clean-up operation aimed at removing tons of used pipes and machinery that had been […]

Pat Sidley IT’S not all bleak on the school-feeding front. Western Cape experts have piloted several projects they hope will nourish children, involve communities and assist the families of schoolchildren in nutrition education. The type of meal the province has settled for consists of a mealie-meal porridge with a sandwich and a soya- based flavoured […]

Traditional doctors are coining it as the black business sector mushrooms, report Meshack Mabogoane and Eddie Koch The growth of black business in South Africa has reinforced another thriving economy — the informal sangoma and muti trade — as new entrepreneurs and executives resort to the supernatural for luck and to protect their cars, taxis, […]