Howard Barrell The Sea Point beachfront, Cape Town, 2pm, 30 degrees. A smallish figure in a baggy suit, cellphone to ear, mouth moving, strides forth along the pavement in full throttle. It’s Tony Leon, Democratic Party leader and political combatant extraordinaire. Scurrying alongside him, furiously scribbling notes, cellphone to her ear, mouth moving, is Sid, […]
Review of the week Alex Dodd Upon entering the blocky white space of the Laboratory (how apt) our ears are filled with the sound of a monotone female voice detailing the workings of the human chakra system. However, unlike the soothing tones of new age healers Caroline Myss or Louise Hayes, this voice, devoid of […]
THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the main trade unions federation, has ordered a general strike next week over payment of a new minimum wage, a press report said Thursday. NLC president Adams Oshiomhole asked private sector workers to join their colleagues in the public sector on May 6 for a general strike, the independent Nigerian […]
Mungo Soggot The co-chair of the Law Society of South Africa is embroiled in a disciplinary probe in which he is being accused of mishandling cases involving accident victims. The attorney, Willie Seriti, was due to appear before the Transvaal Law Society’s disciplinary panel on Wednesday, but sent a fax at 8.50am saying he was […]
The David Gleason Column How should anyone price rough diamonds? This is part of the issue at the heart of the recently erupted row between the government diamond valuer and De Beers. Here are the real problems. De Beers mines diamonds in this country and sells them, almost entirely, abroad through its Central Selling Organisation […]
and currents offshore The Mail & Guardian asked six financial institutions three questions about offshore investing. 1 Why should South Africans make offshore investments through local companies rather than going straight to the foreign investment manager? 2 What should the South African offshore investor be looking for when deciding who to invest with? 3 How […]
Despite many obstacles, there are great opportunities for black economic empowerment in the ITand telecommunications sector, reports Donna Block The future of black economic empowerment in South Africa is wired. Not only do the information, communication and technology sectors offer opportunities for wealth creation in the form of apparently gravity- defying shares, but these industries […]
Ann Eveleth Land reform has quietly undergone a major policy shift as the government has entered the land market in a bid to reshape the way land reform works. Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Derek Hanekom told the Mail & Guardian in an interview this week that the government had already begun purchasing farms […]
Tony Yengeni:CROSSFIRE It was with amazement that I read Howard Barrell’s at best misguided, at worst, false examination (“Liberal invasion of the platteland”, April 23 to 29) of why right- wing Afrikaners are now supporting the Democratic Party. It is not, as DP MP Errol Moorcroft claims, that “there is nothing quite like a spell […]
Shaun Harris The great regulation debate over unit trusts and similar investment products has been raised to a new level with the publication of the Collective Investment Schemes Bill, jointly drawn up by the Association of Unit Trusts (AUT) and the Financial Services Board (FSB). Like all proposed changes aimed at an established industry – […]