Part of the reason for South Africa’s worsening unemployment is that attempts to address it have been based on "programmes and projects" without looking at policies and the framework they create.
The government has established a database of corrupt businesses that departments are banned from using, while a plan for the blacklisting of corrupt employees from the public service has been approved.
Seven of every 10 South African cotton farmers have switched to genetically modified (GM) varieties. South Africa has no market for organic cotton. The GM farmers produced 25 130 tonnes of cotton in the 2001/02 growing season.
In these times of helplessness, there are only so many words one can say about the wretched war being fought in the desert of Iraq and there only so many slogans that can be chanted in opposition to it.
The government can improve small businesses’ success by providing training in the specific entrepreneurial skills they need rather than training in general skills or technical management, according to research by the University of the Western Cape (UWC).
United States and British commanders have changed their tactics on the ground in Iraq to tackle paramilitary militias across the south before the assault on Baghdad, senior military sources said this week.
In times of strife, it is good to know who your friends are. So, in the absence of support from traditional allies such as France and Germany, it will come as welcome news to British troops in the Gulf this week that when the going gets tough, Azerbaijan is right behind them.
The landscape after the battle, in a conquered country, does not smile on a warm morning of freedom. Instead, there begins a rat-infested twilight, and many of the rats are human.
They call themselves the ”awkward squad” and their questions to the generals running the war in Iraq are starting to divide the sceptical press from their more loyal United States colleagues.
The first attempt to deliver aid to the Iraqi people was, in all respects, a practical and logistical disaster.