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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
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
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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/ 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
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
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.
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/ 19 September 2005
Staff at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) on Monday accepted a 7% pay rise. The CCMA staff members went on strike last Wednesday, demanding a 6% salary increase (which rose by 1% after mediation) and equal pay for work of equal value.
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/ 19 September 2005
The inconclusive result of Germany’s election has deprived British Prime Minister Tony Blair of a much-sought ally in a crusade to reform Europe’s lacklustre economy, political analysts said on Monday. Officially, Downing Street declined to comment on the outcome of Sunday’s German vote that left Gerhard Schröder and conservative challenger Angela Merkel both claiming victory.
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/ 19 September 2005
Gauteng residents have rated local government an overall 5,1 out of 10 for service delivery and governance, according to a survey released on Monday by the department of local government. Participants in the survey were income-earning residents from 433 of the 439 municipal wards.