South Africans will constitute about 10 000 of the 65 000 delegates who will descend on Johannesburg for the World Summit on Sustainable Development next month.
Three years ago <i>Time</i> magazine carried an article by James Cramer, the founder of <i>TheStreet.com</i>, an online magazine dedicated to the worship of Mammon.
The third African, Caribbean and Pacific summit being held in Fiji this week has a dilemma on its hands. On the one hand is the positive aspect of trade liberalisation, on the other is the negative impact that customs tariffs currently imposed on EU member states be done away with.
For a man who has provoked a collective temper tantrum at the highest levels of the IMF, Joseph Stiglitz is looking remarkably relaxed. The Nobel laureate has just launched a stinging attack on the organisation and its handling of the crises that have swept through the world financial system.
Western policymakers looking to strengthen the credit union movement could take lessons from the developing world, where in some countries microcredit is the cornerstone of the financial system.
Perhaps a moral regeneration summit is appropriate in a country where prison warders allegedly sanction the abuse of young children for a pittance and prisons become places where drug and alcohol peddling are the order of the day.
A scandal involving rampant crony capitalism in Ireland has left one top South African banking group exposed to a back-breaking tax bill, and another local bank facing the blacklisting of its directors. The two local groups are FirstRand, owner of First National Bank, and Investec.
Minutes of the board meeting of the South African Forestry Company Ltd (Safcol) that awarded Zama Resources a deal to buy a 75% share in Safcol’s Komatiland plantations have raised new doubts about the transaction.
Two Palestinian suicide bombers blew themselves up outside an all-night grocery kiosk in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night, killing three bystanders in what police said was a ”multiple terror attack”.
Almost no maize is moving to famine-stricken parts of Southern Africa — despite estimates that 12,6-million people in the region are in dire need of the staple food.