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/ 4 November 2003
Ten years after the watershed 1994 election, black buyers are starting to establish a meaningful presence in the real estate market. Their arrival, with declining interest rates, rising business confidence and other positive economic factors, is expected to bolster the market’s future sustainability.
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/ 4 November 2003
In this editorial comment, which was to be published on October 26, <i>The Daily News</i> celebrated the integrity of the Zimbabwean courts. Little did the editors know that this meant nothing to the Mugabe government.
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/ 4 November 2003
Business has changed. It has had to change. It can no longer proceed with the gay abandon of the past. It has to be accountable, fair, transparent and responsible. As this realisation has grown in corporate South Africa, so the Investing in the Future concept has come of age. It is gratifying to have witnessed the challenge so vigorously accepted by local companies.
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/ 4 November 2003
More than 30 companies, foundations and other corporate entities around the country entered this year’s Investing in the Future Awards. The standard of most entries was extremely high, making the judges’ task in choosing winners a difficult one. The following is a brief list of the winners, finalists and entrants.
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/ 4 November 2003
On Saturday October 25 Zimbawe’s The Daily News was back in business. The 50 000 copies of that day’s edition circulated in the capital were sold out within two hours. By lunchtime on October 25 18 employees of the company were detained in a Harare police station. They had been forcefully removed from their offices while working on the newspaper’s Sunday edition.
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/ 4 November 2003
Strange days indeed at the Googleplex, the Silicon Valley home of half the assorted collection of self-styled geeks who make up Google’s 1 000-strong global workforce. For at least two years Internet pundits have been trying to second-guess when it would list. Users and company insiders fear that Google’s innovation will be sacrificed when the company goes public
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/ 4 November 2003
Imagine a city that functions like a rainforest, soaking up greenhouse gases instead of emitting them. It is an unlikely scenario in a world that seems powerless to halt the spread of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But John Harrison, a Tasmanian inventor, says this can be achieved just by changing the mix of the cement we use.
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/ 4 November 2003
Much has been made of the fact that the eight World Cup quarterfinalists are the eight original members of the International Rugby Football Board (IRB). Not so much has been made of the fact that one team in the final eight has beaten each of the other seven in the space of the last 12 months. That team is England.
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/ 4 November 2003
Outsiders may be alarmed about their World Cup chances, but the Wallabies are refusing to panic heading into the World Cup quarter-finals, fly-half Stephen Larkham said on Tuesday.
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/ 4 November 2003
The already tense Burundi peace process acquired pressure-cooker status last week when a summit was called to sign final documents before vital technical talks had even started. The government of Burundi and the country’s largest rebel group picked up where they left off on October 8 with what were characterised as technical talks.