Lizeka Mda: CITY LIMITS Drive east along Marcia Avenue towards Bruma Lake. At the intersection of Derrick Avenue, turn left and blink. You could be forgiven for thinking you had been transported to China. The Chinese signs jump at you from both sides of the street. Apart from the video shop, the fast-food chicken outlet, […]

MONDAY, 12.45PM: SOUTH Africa, firing on all cylinders, made a meal of the Sri Lankan batting to beat the tourists by 57 runs in a triangular series match at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on Sunday. South African skipper Hansie Cronje won the toss and elected to bat, sending in Mike Rindel and Gary Kirsten to […]

Dawood Dithato International tributes poured in this week for President Ketumile Masire of Botswana, who resigned this week before his term of office ended. After 18 years as head of state, Masire ducked out of office as his party began to face the challenge of preparing for its toughest election battle next year. The tributes […]

Wally Lambert and Charlene Smith : Share World Top-performing redevelopment share African Harvest is looking to list in Namibia, Botswana and Tanzania and will at a later stage seek a banking licence with Coronation Holdings. African Harvest is one of three companies listed in the redevelopment sector of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the most […]

Andy Capostagno : Cricket It must be something in the genes. National team selectors of any sporting code from any country are usually men (or women) of experience and intelligence with an understanding of the pressures and complexities of their particular game, individuals who talk genuine horse sense on the golf course or in the […]

Re-skilling and counselling are the new norms for retrenchments, writes Charlene Smith More and more people are facing retrenchment as companies have to let go of the old to make way for the new – take the large corporation that recently retrenched 80 top managers to make way for affirmative action appointees. Restructuring – and […]

For the time being, war-torn Sierra Leone has no standing army of its own. But Chief Sam Hinka Norman, reappointed as deputy minister of defence, says he has other forces to call on. “If you point your rifle at me, you may believe it, it will not strike me,” he says. “When all this is […]

Charlene Smith A retrenchment package will often be the largest lump sum a person ever receives and the temptation is to spend all the money, hoping tomorrow will take care of itself. Each year employees contribute R27-billion to retirement funds – and those who lose their jobs rarely make sensible re-investment decisions. Hermie Rossouw, regional […]

Dror Eyal The dust is blowing in from the east. Sand clouds that whip the air, flay my skin, sting in my eyes. Dust in each breath I swallow, grit grating between teeth, sticking in my throat. Dust in my food, dust in my beer. Winds blowing up a storm in front of the main […]

Andy Duffy The African National Congress is engaged in frantic lobbying among its Western Cape branches to ensure that Ebrahim Rasool is the only contender to succeed Dullah Omar as the party’s provincial leader. Nominations for the post are open until April 13, but insiders are already spinning the line that Rasool, the provincial caucus […]