Site content and community were vital to plans to get rich quick. But sites with great content and large communities are still being forced to close, writes Jim McClellan In the mid-1990s, techno-gurus claimed that successful websites needed to focus on “the three Cs” content, community and commerce. Of these, content as in stuff to […]

Lynda Gilfillan DRINK That exotic margarita you’ve just knocked back may well have come from the Karoo. Tequila is being made in a great white barn of a building outside Graaff-Reinet and is exported to Europe. Agave Distillers, a partnership between South African and French investors Rockwood and Hines, is pioneering the distilling of tequila […]

Despite its drawbacks, the initiative opens the way for a new, positive international engagement with the continent Greg Mills The finer details of the Millennium Partnership for the African Recovery Programme (MAP) will be revealed, we are told, after the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) summit in Lusaka next month. The MAP concept has apparently […]

Andre Vos was sacked in the time-honoured ham-fisted manner Andy Capostagno There is no easy way to change a Springbok captain. Naas Botha announced his retirement in front of astonished team-mates at a post-Test match function in London. Francois Pienaar was carried off the field on a stretcher at Newlands and never played for his […]

Glenda Daniels and David Macfarlane New employer incentives are now available to companies that participate in the government’s massive programme to combat the country’s crisis of unemployment and skills shortage especially among the youth. While all companies contribute to the national skills development levy, regulations published in the Government Gazette this month allow employers to […]

After the dot.com crash, the finger pointing started, reports Edward Hellmore How the mighty have fallen. Little more than a year ago Jeff Bezos was flying high. The price of Amazon.com shares was in the stratosphere and the company’s beaming 38-year-old CEO was being lionised as Time magazine’s Man of the Year. Supported by the […]

Anthony Holiday Hear the vengeful racist talk among whites in rural pubs after there has been a farm burning or a farm killing. Sense the envious anger among the black dispossessed in squatter camps from the Boland to our northern borders and beyond. In short, taste the lethal potion of racism and land-loss and you […]

African mould broken as Western firms are to be put in the dock on bribery charges Chris McGreal Multinational companies are about to go on trial in Lesotho where they are accused of paying huge bribes to a local official, a case virtually unprecedented in Africa. European and Canadian engineering companies, four of them British, […]

Nawaal Deane Gauteng schools will soon receive guidelines on how to interpret official policy dealing with promoting to a higher grade pupils who have failed. Teachers in the province are complaining that schools’ matric pass rates are dropping because the Department of Education has introduced a policy that pupils should be promoted to a higher […]

Paul Kirk Things fell apart for Durban’s director of community and health services this month. First his promotion to the post he has few qualifications for was deemed unreasonable, then he had his law degree revoked. University of Zululand officials have established that Arnold Shange did not earn his BJuris degree, but was one of […]