SOCCER: Gerald Combrinck MORE or less a year ago in a packed and highly emotional=20 Ellis Park Stadium more than 50 000 South Africans=20 experienced possibly the greatest moment in their lives. Having been inaugurated just hours earlier as South=20 Africa’s first democratic president, Nelson Mandela’s first=20 official assignment was to watch the national soccer […]
Clive Simpkins A CHALLENGE to South African marketers is keeping pace with=20 the changes occurring daily as a result of the awakening of=20 the once-sleeping giant of black enfranchisement. Black women, historically the bottom of the heap in terms=20 of earning power, status and direct influence in business=20 and society, are emerging as a major […]
Opera: Coenraad Visser THE PROBLEMS with Pact Opera’s revival of Puccini’s=20 treasured masterpiece La Boheme start in the pit, where=20 Gert Meditz’s moribund and clumsy conducting shows scant=20 regard for Puccini’s soaring lyrical lines. Nor does he=20 seem to realise that there are two sets of lovers involved,=20 to portray two different types of love, […]
The current account deficit is growing. Drastic measures=20 must be taken now if the economic recovery is to be=20 sustained. Lynda Loxton reports Economists, ever watchful for dark clouds on the horizon,=20 are tempering their delight about the continued strong=20 growth of the economy by worrying about the deepening=20 current account deficit. And they received […]
South African firms will have to go global, but do our=20 company directors understand how to operate across=20 international borders? Jacques Magliolo reports International competition is rapidly becoming a way of life=20 in South Africa; however, the ability of local directors to=20 understand how the new global village will function in the=20 immediate future is […]
Access to a good education for all remains a crucial issue on the political agenda. Karen MacGregor looks at the battles that lie ahead A bold new approach to financing and organising South African schools is likely to be proposed by the government’s new review committee on school funding and The committee’s crucial task is […]
Jakes Gerwel, the Director General of the President’s Office, is the intellectual, erudite and politically savvy former rector of the University of the Western Cape. He was apparently Mandela’s first choice for Education Minister, but turned it down, insisting he did not want a life in either politics or the civil service. He now has […]
The points of agreement and disagreement between business and labour about weighty issues are seldom scrutinised together. The Community Agency for Social Enquiry (Case) research agency did just this in a survey commissioned by the Weekly Mail & Guardian, the South African Chamber of Business (Sacob), and the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Business editor Reg […]
Jan Taljaard LESS than a day after a police raid last week, rebel radio station Radio Donkerhoek defied the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) by going back on the air. The defiant right-wing broadcaster sprung into action once more from the same cellar in which station chief Willem Ratte last Wednesday threatened that the station’s equipment […]
Jacques Magliolo The Board of Executive Corporation (BOECorp) has once again proved to investors that it is a financial force to be taken seriously. In the first six months of its present fiscal year, the company has more than satisfied its shareholders, producing a 94,4 percent annualised increase in attributable income. Other annualised figures are […]