No image available
/ 7 September 2004
Comparing South Africa’s telecommunication charges to that of other countries, South Africa is generally more expensive and price increases in recent years were also generally higher than in most other countries, according to Efficient Research economist Dawie Roodt.
No image available
/ 7 September 2004
The private sector is often unfavourably compared with the parastatals in meeting employment equity targets — Eskom, Telkom and Transnet have for the past decade put in place radical equity programmes and are largely black-led. In response, business argues that the parastatals have been able to embrace transformation because, as monopolies, they don’t have to worry about profitability.
No image available
/ 7 September 2004
As the Travelgate debate squabbled on, the real politics was taking place offstage in the corridors and rooms behind the National Assembly. Media attention was on the debate. As Speaker Baleka Mbete noted in her speech: “Our people are justifiably eager to know what happened.” Yet it was when the debate ended that the really interesting stuff began.
No image available
/ 7 September 2004
Two years ago the international community gathered in Johannesburg for the World Summit on Sustainable Development and drew up a plan to protect resources for the benefit of the planet. Last week the government and various civil society organisations gathered at the Johannesburg +2 Sustainable Development Conference to assess progress. We spoke to Environmental Affairs Director General Chippy Olver.
No image available
/ 7 September 2004
Some towns measure time as a state of constant expansion. In Eden, a mill town in North Carolina, life registers in terms of loss: the factories that closed and the jobs that went with them, the lives interrupted. Janice Armstrong lost her job when one of Eden’s last giant textile companies closed its gates. ”The day it closed, our insurance was gone, our pension was gone. It was devastating,” she says.
No image available
/ 7 September 2004
South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) president Brian van Rooyen is set to lay a charge of crimen injuria against former Springbok centre Robbie Fleck. The Star reported on Tuesday that Van Rooyen is pursuing the action after derogatory comments attributed to Fleck appeared in an SA Sports Illustrated article.
No image available
/ 7 September 2004
”Africa, to the British upper classes, remains an adventure playground, a deer park and a treasury. And Constantia an enclave of apartheid prospering in a post-apartheid continent.” Africans have good reason to be suspicious of British involvement in their affairs, argues George Monbiot.
No image available
/ 7 September 2004
You don’t lose veterans such as Zinedine Zidane, Marcel Desailly and Lilian Thuram and just pretend nothing happened. After just one 2006 World Cup qualifying match, France must look for victory against the lowly Faeroe Islands on Wednesday to get their campaign back on track.
No image available
/ 7 September 2004
South Africa captain Graeme Smith said his side have the opportunity to become heroes during the Champions Trophy one-day tournaments, which start in England later this week. The Proteas come into the ”mini World Cup” on the back of a 5-0 one-day whitewashing in Sri Lanka.
No image available
/ 7 September 2004
Fast-bowler Darren Gough has rounded on all those who queried whether he should still be playing top-flight cricket after becoming the first Englishman to take 200 one-day international wickets. Gough became the 19th bowler in history on Sunday to reach the 200-mark.