According to Erwin, small-business sector is more than a decade away from where it should be in South Africa, and that it contributes only 35% of gross domestic product. The regulatory regime for small business is in dire need of an overhaul.
History will judge us. Well, of course. It’s what politicians in a jam always say when the judges of the moment grow baleful. But what, pray, if there are no such sages left? What if the world has taken Francis Fukuyama much too literally?
According to a recent survey, 80% of Zimbabwe’s doctors, nurses and therapists who gained their qualifications since independence in 1980 have gone to work abroad, primarily in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US.
Former British colony Somaliland is seeking recognition as an entity free from its paralysed southern neighbour, Somalia. Somaliland stands accused by the AU of the cardinal sin of secession.
A lacklustre Kaizer Chiefs crashed out of the SAA Supa 8 Cup on Sunday when they were beaten 2-1 by Wits University in a tense quarter-final clash played in front of 20 000 fans at Orkney’s Oppenheimer stadium.
Kim Clijsters has dethroned Serena Williams for the world number-one tennis ranking, which could signal an attack on the power tennis of the William sisters by Belgium’s tennis stars.
David Beckham may have yet to pull on the famous white shirt in a competitive match, but after four friendlies on his new club’s Asian tour he is already seen as a fixture in Real Madrid’s star-studded side.
Soft drinks sold in India by Coca-Cola and rival Pepsi have ”dangerously high” levels of pesticides, an independent environment watchdog said Tuesday — a claim vehemently denied by the US beverage giants.
The Scorpions are investigating the circumstances in which a government tender committee recommended awarding a R3,5-million contract to a company co-owned by the then head of the government department that put out the tender.
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