More than 80% of the proposed 17E000ha of the Coega industrial development zone is in private hands Peter Dickson With six months to go before builders begin clearing the land for the proposed R1,6-billion deepwater port at Coega outside Port Elizabeth, one man’s mine stands in the way of the Eastern Cape’s much-vaunted “economic miracle”. […]
Casinos are gambling on making a cool R2- billion a year – but they’ve had to go to the ends of the earth to get people there Mary Dover The race is on for five of the six licensed casinos in Gauteng to be complete in all their glory. It’s official: kitsch, glitz and glamour […]
Barry Streek The large-scale firing and retrenchment of workers on Western Cape fruit farms will cause huge damage to rural civil society and to the quality of life in the province but it won’t make the industry productive and internationally competitive, two University of Western Cape (UWC) researchers have concluded. They also dismiss claims that […]
Belinda Beresford Holding a telecommunications conference in Nigeria was a fitting act since the country encapsulates the problems and the lure of telecommunications in Africa. Last week’s Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC) conference was being held in Africa’s most populous nation and one laden with natural resources. Yet the country’s infrastructure is collapsing. Seventeen companies […]
The run-up to the International Aids 2000 conference starting in Durban on July 9 has been dogged by controversy Timothy Trengove-Jones If asked to name a single issue that drew into unambiguous focus the most pressing dilemmas facing this country today, one would have to answer HIV/Aids. But, immediately upon giving that answer, one would […]
Steven Friedman WORM’S EYE VIEW Sometimes “fixing” a problem can make it much worse. Local government after the pending elections may be an example. There is wide agreement that many municipal governments are not working well. Far from meeting the ambitious development goals set them by national government, local councils often battle to balance their […]
Barry Streek The beaded Aids-awareness logo, such as those worn by President Thabo Mbeki and other members of his Cabinet, is a “powerful, powerful” instrument of good design, according to United States Professor Dick Buchanan. “This is so important as a design project. It may be one of the most important I have seen in […]
Grant Shimmin OLYMPICS For most South Africans, even the avid sports fans, the only time they ever see a baseball game is in a sports bar or – if they’re part of the growing satellite TV generation – when they happen to stumble on to ESPN when surfing through the other sports channels. Perhaps a […]
Mark Ouma Banyana Banyana aim to secure the future of women’s soccer in South Africa by putting up an inspiring performance when South Africa hosts the African Cup of Nations in October. Aware of the enormous challenge that lies ahead, the national women’s team are determined to overcome the odds stacked against them and perform […]
Nawaal Deane Hamid “Banjo” Cassim, the Johannesburg sweetshop owner at the centre of the cricket scandal, has converted his ordeal before the King commission into a business coup. Biltong sales at his Fordsburg shop have been booming since the widespread publicity afforded him by the match- fixing saga. To cash in, he has repackaged his […]