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/ 20 September 2005
Rapidly growing but still small, the black middle class is steadily spreading its spending influence and finding itself socially, research released over the past year shows. A new report, <i>Lost in Transformation South Africa’s Emerging African Middle Class?</i>,attempts to capture the economic and social nuances of South Africans.
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/ 20 September 2005
The discovery that the deities of ancient Palestine were female ought to be good news for all of humanity, not just women. Even the increasingly beleaguered monotheistic religions might find reason to be pleased, for it gives them opportunity to reinvent a deity that will represent the yin and the yang.
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/ 20 September 2005
Two European airlines will allow passengers late next year to use their own cellphones on commercial flights within western Europe, a Geneva-based technology firm said on Tuesday. TAP Air Portugal and British carrier bmi both have agreed to introduce OnAir’s voice and text service for cellphones in separate three-month trial runs.
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/ 20 September 2005
There are a number of disturbing trends currently sweeping through the black economic empowerment landscape. One is the intransigence of white capital. The other is what company directors would call dereliction of duty by both the government and the private sector.
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/ 20 September 2005
China is a nation on the move. But should its economic growth be cause for alarm? Other nations have risen fast — Britain during the industrial revolution, the United States at the turn of the century, and Japan during and after the 1960s. However, it took Britain 100 years to rise; 60 for the US and 30 for Japan. It seems China will be transformed in just a couple of decades.
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/ 20 September 2005
Four years ago the dust was still settling on Lower Manhattan. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre had been reduced to rubble and the United States was in shock. Rightly, there were fears for the health not just of the US economy but also that of the rest of the world.
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/ 19 September 2005
Private Andries Nhlengethwa jumps from planes and lifts 45kg weights. He also happens to have HIV. The 31-year-old parachutist and bodybuilder is one of the few South African soldiers living openly with the deadly virus, presenting a new face of the pandemic on a continent where Aids drugs are rare and infection is often a death sentence.
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/ 19 September 2005
There’s good and bad news from the social delivery interface, but mostly it is good. Personnel costs are down, capital expenditure is up, the provinces are growing their implementation capacity, social development expenditure has more than doubled since 2001/02 and nearly 5,6-million children are getting child support grants, up from 970Â 000 in 2001/02.
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/ 19 September 2005
The United States will send four astronauts to the moon in 2018 in a return to its pioneering manned mission into space, Nasa administrator Michael Griffin announced on Monday. Nasa is to design a new rocket based on the technology from its ageing shuttles that are to be retired in 2010, Griffin said.