In debating empowerment charters and black economic empowerment legislation, a distinction should be drawn between transformation and development. The transformation of large established organisations has taken centre stage in the empowerment arena. The size of the institution tends to raise its importance in public forums. Typically, also, empowerment initiatives centre on ownership.
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>If you are looking to find out more about your favourite political party, the Internet can be a great resource. The ACDP does an admirable job with its website, while the ANC has by far the most extensive site. The ID website is striking and takes advantage, like JohnKerry.com, of the Internet as a forum for campaigning.
Easter. It’s not just about bunny rabbits and funny-shaped chocolate, you know. It’s about football. In Britain, this is the weekend when we finally make our overpaid, badly behaved professionals earn their money. Most of the poor lambs will have to play twice over the Easter weekend. Scandalous.
Ernie Els can hardly wait for the US Masters to begin on Thursday. There is a confidence about him that departed after 2000 and when he plays well now it is, even to old hands, awe-inspiring. ”To win the Masters at least once is now my main ambition,” he says.
”Rhodesia. The Seventies. ‘This is the Rhodesia Broadcasting Corporation. Combined operations headquarters reports that 15 terrorists were killed in Muzarabani. In Rushinga 11 more terrorists were killed this evening.”’ The Zimbabwean government’s commitment to local content broadcasting is a sham, argues Everjoice J Win.
Armed police began patrolling Madrid’s underground rail and bus networks last week as the hunt continued for six members of the radical Islamist group behind the previous Saturday’s joint suicide bombing and the train bombings that killed 190 people last month. Police were on high alert as Islamists threatened an ”inferno” and ”rivers of blood”.
The finalisation of three black economic empowerment (BEE) charters since 2000 has brought a new era for empowerment. Through their involvement in designing the charters, all stakeholders in the mining, liquid fuels and financial sectors are duty-bound to implement the BEE framework, which each charter outlines.
In an effort to cope with worsening humanitarian conditions in Zimbabwe, the United Nations is seeking additional funds to support relief efforts through to the end of the year. The request, a revision of the Consolidated Appeal launched in July, focuses on strengthening social service delivery, supporting the country’s recovery and tackling HIV/Aids.
Past the halfway mark in the series and Springbok coach Jake White will be hoping fervently that the old saw about cream rising to the top holds true in the Super 12. If so it means that the three South African sides occupying positions three to five on the log are the real deal and not some kind of optical illusion.
Under the lazy afternoon sun, a dozen men stood guard this week inside the coiled barbed-wire fence that surrounds the police station in Kufa, near the holy city of Najaf. They were well-armed, most carrying Kalashnikovs, one a sniper’s rifle with another two hand grenades tucked into his vest, but not one was a policeman.