My personal astrologer has warned me that with my Saturn in decline and my Pluto eclipsed by my moon influence, which is in a flat spin, I must avoid being “personal" in anything I say or write for the next few weeks. With this in mind I will refer only to the rather inane comment made last week by a certain SAfm phone-in talk-show host who shall remain nameless.
So you ask yourself: what on earth am I going to do with a USB flash disk watch? I need my watch to tell the time. I need my watch to wake me up in the mornings, what now with the USB? But it’s brilliant if you think about it. Where better to store your most treasured or secret Word documents, pictures or sound files than behind the hands of your watch, strapped to your very own wrist?
It was Greta von Ribbentrop’s first Met, and as they drew nearer she could no longer contain her excitement and began to belabour her chauffeur around the head with an ornamental riding crop given her as a christening present. “Gustav! Look! Blacks! Stealing horses!”
Advocate Zwelethu "Mighty" Madasa says the African Christian Democratic Party believes that cannabis is dangerous to society and should therefore remain illegal, whereas the Democratic Alliance uses Bob Marley’s <i>Stand Up for Your Rights</i> as part of their crowd-pleasing campaign. See the stances of the rest of the parties on the issue of getting high.
Black economic empowerment (BEE) must adjust to the realities of globalisation, according to reports released this week by the BusinessMap Foundation and Ernst & Young. Both found robust activity in empowerment transactions during 2003.
The BusinessMap report raises a number of questions, the overarching one being whether empowerment is a risk or an opportunity.
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>One way of analysing elections is to think of them in four phases. First, there are the campaign issues: what do people care about? Second, there is the response of the contesting parties: what campaign strategy do they employ? Third, there are the results. And fourth, political consequences. There is very little strategic capacity to run election campaigns in South Africa, writes Richard Calland.
If the taps ran dry or the sewers stopped working, the United Kingdom would come to a standstill very quickly. Similarly, it is access to water and sanitation that underpins every other issue of development in the world’s poorest countries — from improving access to education and tackling disease to eradicating hunger and promoting gender equality.
Breastfeeding is not detrimental to the health of HIV-positive mothers, according to a study published in the latest edition of <i>Aids</i>.
Green and consumer groups on Wednesday claimed one of their greatest successes in a decade as the German biotech company Bayer withdrew its application to grow a variety of genetically modified (GM) maize in Britain, saying that constraints imposed upon it by the United Kingdom government had made the crop uneconomic.
The new political elite as well as the emerging black capitalist class are often indicted for having committed or been accomplices in the commission of the crime of ”cronyism”. But what is ”cronyism” and why should we live in mortal fear of it? Also, is the South African version of ”capitalism” worthy of being defended against so-called ”cronyism”?