The trade department is set to launch its Competitiveness Fund, which draws on specialists to help small businesses grow, reports Madeleine Wackernagel THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is to seek tender applications for an operator to run its Competitiveness Fund by the end of this month. The fund, established to help small businesses […]
stakes Mail & Guardian Reporter THE British mercenary company which subcontracted South Africa’s Executive Outcomes to crush a rebellion on Papua New Guinea’s island province Bougainville asked for a stake in the large Panguna copper mine after its recapture, a judicial inquiry was told this week. Counsel assisting the commission, which is probing the ill-fated […]
A board official said this week that the board had accepted 115 000 out of about 125 000 applications in the 12 months to March.
If Eugene de Kock were to be tried now, taxpayers would not have to face footing his legal bills, reports Mungo Soggot.
battle Jim Day A JOHANNESBURG marketing company is fighting the Airports Company Ltd (ACL)for damages incurred after the parastatal vrestricted business relating to the rugby World Cup. On April 15 the ACL regulator will hear the case between the parastatal and tiny Airport World Sales (AWS), which claims practices by ACL cost it R950000 in […]
The probe which prompted Van Zyl’s suspension is far from complete, raising suspicions of a witch-hunt, reports Mungo Soggot SOUTH AFRICA’S top state oil official, suspended last week, is taking the blame for a sanctions-busting deal cut for the former government. No evidence has yet been found that he personally benefited from the deal. It […]
SWAPNA PRABHAKARAN speaks to Calvin Hunt about the upcoming visit to South Africa of the famous Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre Company CALVIN HUNT does not stay in any one place for very long. As the general manager of the renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre Company, his job is to travel ahead to various […]
Organising Jo’burg’s streets is crucial to new investment, but street traders are taking issue with the new laws, reports Ferial Haffajee THE implementation of state-of-the-art by- laws to streamline hawking on Johannesburg’s streets has been indefinitely delayed as the Johannesburg Metropolitan Council hurries to start a hawker education programme, meant to have been completed by […]
Zaire’s president has reinstated a dictatorial governor he removed four years ago. Chris McGreal reports from Lumbumbashi IT is four years since Kyungu wa Kumwanza tried to revive an independent Katanga with the brutal ethnic cleansing of one million people. He even went so far as to declare secession from Zaire. It cost the demagogic […]
Ferial Haffajee COMMUNICATIONS Minister Jay Naidoo is definitely going to sell another 10% of Telkom. He just hasn’t worked out how he’s going to do it yet. Last week’s R5,58-billion deal to sell a third of Telkom to American and Malaysian partners was signed without an empowerment component. Naidoo’s next task will be to fine-tune […]