Analysts believe the new shareholding structure is a blow for black economic empowerment at JCI, reports Madeleine Wackernagel THE country’s biggest black economic empowerment initiative is turning sour, say industry analysts. The confusion surrounding JCI’s new shareholding structure is a deliberate attempt at masking the fact that real control of JCI is still largely in […]
Nigel Williamson in London LOUD, arrogant and high on Ecstasy, British clubbers are exploiting poor communities, wrecking the environment and terrifying locals. They’ve done Spain, India and Thailand – now they’re heading for Cape Town. Indian police have issued an uncompromising warning that young British music fans planning to join all-night parties on the beaches […]
The government’s growth strategy envisages substantial job creation but without drastic intervention the unemployment problem will not be overcome, writes Asghar Adelzadeh of the NIEP in the last in the series of articles on economic policy TWO questions are fundamental to overcoming the problems of high unemployment and poverty: what are the main macro-economic and […]
streets The Ministry of Defence has been asked to stop cutting jobs, reports Rehana Rossouw PARLIAMENT has asked the Ministry of Defence to freeze its job-cutting until plans are in place to prevent thousands of unemployed troops being forced on to the streets and into crime. The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has already […]
Shaun de Waal ALIENS IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD: HOMOSEXUALITY AND CHRISTIAN FAITH IN SOUTH AFRICA edited by Paul Germond and Steve de Gruchy (David Philip, R74,95) CHRISTIANITY has only recently begun to treat homosexuality as something other than a dire sin requiring, at worst, immolation, at best, conversion. The South African synod of Anglican […]
THE decision by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) to clear the way for a Nigerian military invasion of Sierra Leone is like seconding the Mafia to raid dope smokers at a high school. Nigeria’s corrupt and brutal military regime has had an enormous destabilising role in West Africa. Ordinary Liberians and Sierra Leoneans blame […]
JAZZ ON CD: Gwen Ansell ONLY 27 years old, the ECM label has already acquired adjectival status. Call someone’s playing “a bit ECM-ish” and you’ve summed up that amalgam of north European romanticism, spacey fusion and sizzling free energy which until a decade ago typified the label’s output. In 1984, ECM – the acronym stands […]
The national wine co-op has been implicated in trying to sell fake champagne to Europe and the US, report David Beresford and Mungo Soggot THE national co-operative which controls South Africa’s wine industry, KWV, has been implicated in a major swindle involving the attempted sale of fake champagne to Europe and the United States. Documents […]
A victory against Zambia on Sunday will go a long way towards sending Bafana Bafana to t he World Cup in France, but nothing is certain in the unpredictable Group Three SOCCER : Andrew Muchineripi THE moment of truth for World Cup hopefuls South Africa and Zambia arrives on Sunday when they clash at FNB […]
Peace moves are being likened to the secret negotiations between the NP and ANC, write Eddie Koch and Enoch Mthembu SLOWLY, agonisingly, Kwa-Zulu-Natal may be heading for peace. The most recent sign that centripetal forces are beginning to dominate the politics of South Africa’s most turbulent region was a report this week that Mangosuthu Buthelezi […]