Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings take issue with Eddie Webster=D5s=20 social democracy SOCIAL democrats must come out of the closet, says sociologist Eddie=20 Webster in a recent article (M&G August 18 to 24). Indeed they should.=20 But Webster=D5s vision of social democracy is an impoverished one. His=20 enthusiasm for the labour movement seems to have […]

Amendments to the Income Tax Act cut back on the loopholes to which=20 firms have become accustomed. Karen Harverson reports A tax loophole, which effectively meant Inland Revenue made a loan to the= taxpaying public, has been stopped.=20 This was one of the 1995 amendments to the Income Tax Act, passed in=20 July and reviewed […]

ACRIMONY at the women=D5s forum at Huairou has provided an unhappy=20 prelude to the United Nations women=D5s conference which opened in=20 Beijing on Monday.=20 The forum is made up of hugely diverse non-governmental women=D5s=20 organisations. They have come as legitimate pressure groups, invited under= the UN banner, to press their interests at the Beijing conference. […]

Neil Bierbaum Times Media Limited is to transfer its M-Net shares to holding company=20 Omni Media =D1 part of an empowerment scheme which will also free TML=20 to invest in electronic media. The planned transfer of the shares will also clear the way for Omni Media= unbundling. Inside sources claim that Omni shareholders are prepared […]

THREE Members of Parliament have contacted the Mail & Guardian about=20 last week=D5s story on absenteeism in the National Assembly. The African National Congress=D5 David Dalling has pointed out he has been= absent because of major surgery to his foot. The failure of this surgery ha= prevented his return and forced him to have a […]

Karen Harverson The deregulation of an industry may bring about more competition and=20 lower prices but it could also result in increased prices and less protecti= for consumers. =D2Competition does not always result in prices coming down especially=20 when regulated industries deregulate such as the airline and broadcasting= businesses,=D3 says John Ford, senior lecturer in […]

Philippa Garson WHAT would we do without the Sanlam babies? Most would agree that=20 the entertainment value of seeing children playing adults is greater than= that of seeing adults play themselves. Certainly Sanlam, churning out one baby ad after another, believes in the= success of using children to market adult products. Alternatively, using=20 adults to […]

Julian Drew NEXT week=D5s All Africa Games in Harare will be only the sixth edition of= this Pan African equivalentof the Olympic Games which were first staged=20 in the Congolese capital of Brazzaville in 1965, but although their entry= into the annals of sporting history is relatively recent, the idea behind t= is not. In […]

Justin Pearce M-NET=D5S African Film Awards are coming out of hiding for the first time= this year, with a festival which will bring the best of the competition ent= to audiences in Cape Town and Gauteng. The festival line-up comprises seven films from West and North Africa,=20 something which is made possible by the opening […]

Car sales surge August new car sales, benefiting from renewed demand by the car rental=20 sector and recently introduced competitively priced small cars, rose to 20= 969 units. This is 24,8 percent up on the 16 805 units sold during the same= month last year. Sales of new light commercial vehicles, bakkies and=20 minibuses rose […]