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/ 7 September 2007
If continuing talks between Telkom, Vodafone and MTN materialise into a deal where Telkom offloads its 50% stake in mobile partner Vodacom, valued at between R70-billion and R75-billion, Dimension Data chairperson Andile Ngcaba and other Elephant Consortium partners stand to be handsomely rewarded.
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/ 7 September 2007
A British diplomatic source in Harare has described reports that China is scaling down its presence in Zimbabwe as a "gross exaggeration". China has moved in to fill the vacuum left in Zimbabwe by the West and has signed a number of agreements and secured several trade deals.
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/ 7 September 2007
A 12-year study by the World Bank using new technology has found that African countries flare enough gas each year — 40-billion cubic metres (BCM) — to power half the continent’s electricity needs if put to productive use. Just one country, Nigeria, flares 23 BCM annually.
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/ 7 September 2007
Things have gone distinctly pear-shaped in South Africa’s two most prized mediation subjects — the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi. Governments put in place in both these countries as a result of South African-brokered peace processes last week saw a repeat of bodies in the streets and floods of refugees.
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/ 7 September 2007
It seems so very long ago. On April 6 2003, the day the city of Basra was finally occupied by British troops, there was a febrile, uncertain sense of excitement. On Monday, the British soldiers followed the same route, as they retreated from Basra Palace in the city centre to relocate to the air base outside the city.
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/ 7 September 2007
A week into the floor-crossing period, the African National Congress’s power goes unchallenged. In the defection period that is killing off smaller opposition parties such as the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) and the United Independent Front, a low-intensity war is raging in Cape Town.
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/ 7 September 2007
What’s in the top-secret report that former spy boss Billy Masetlha finally got his hands on this week? The National Intelligence Agency will not say what is in the report. Through the state prosecutor, the agency opposed Masetlha’s request for access to the document to support his defence against a fraud charge.
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/ 7 September 2007
Jimmy Manyi, chairperson of the Commission for Employment Equity and president of the Black Management Forum (BMF), hit headlines this week after he proposed to Parliament that white women should be struck off a list of groups recognised by the employment-equity legislation as previously disadvantaged.
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/ 7 September 2007
A confidential market research survey has found that South Africans think the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) treats government officials with kid gloves and tends ”to cover up” government’s wrongdoings. The Mail & Guardian has a copy of a report, titled Qualitative Overview of Current Affairs Programmes, compiled by research firm Plus 94 in March 2007.
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/ 7 September 2007
When South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) boss Dali Mpofu led the public broadcaster to quit the South African National Editors’ Forum last week in protest against the ”profit-driven” media’s treatment of Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, he neglected to mention a commercial interest that might have clouded his own judgement.