Staff Reporter
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/ 27 February 2007

A serious contender

The recently launched Daihatsu Materia looks to me a bit like a futuristic London cab — it’s box-shaped, has a sharp, angular design and sits higher off the ground than most passenger vehicles. Initially, I wasn’t sure whether I liked the design, but I have to admit that, after a day with the Materia, the look began to grow on me, writes Sukasha Singh.

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/ 27 February 2007

Neither broad nor black

Cosatu has always supported the principle of BEE. Our national democratic revolution cannot be completed without reversing the massive racial imbalance in the distribution of wealth we inherited from our racist past. Interestingly, the RDP does not mention the term "black economic empowerment".

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/ 27 February 2007

Go, go, team green

Meet the Greening the Future Awards’ panel of judges for 2007, including Professor Mary Metcalfe, head of education, University of the Witwatersrand; David Grant, group environmental policy manager, SAB-Miller plc; and Rosemary Noge, sustainable development manager at Gold Fields.

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/ 27 February 2007

Making like Singapore

Gauteng’s department of local government has ceded 13 of its functions to various local governments in the province. These include the delivery of basic services such as water, sanitation and electricity, which the department has identified as "absolute necessities" for alleviating poverty and improving people’s welfare.

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/ 27 February 2007

Daimler might ditch Chrysler

When Germany’s Daimler Benz merged with the third of the United States’s big-three car makers, Chrysler, in 1998, the deal was designed to create an automotive powerhouse, capable of matching the international reach of General Motors and Ford and confronting the emerging challenge from Japan.

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/ 27 February 2007

Time to say goodbye

Just how long beleaguered South African Football Association (Safa) CEO Raymond Hack will remain in office should be a cause for concern for football fans around the country. We simply cannot go on as we are. Appointed in March 2005, the Johannesburg lawyer has steered the organisation from one disaster to the next.

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/ 27 February 2007

Time to take charge

Gauteng safety and liaison minister Firoz Cachalia has called on sporting formations to put their shoulders to the wheel in the fight against crime. Speaking in Mogale City on the West Rand, Cachalia said the province’s anti-crime campaign focused on mobilising grassroots communities and creating a social movement against lawlessness.