It is a perennial conundrum for any self-respecting Malibu millionaire: How to stop the public from unrolling their gaudy towels on the beach in front of your house and cluttering up the view of the ocean from the infinity pool. The answer this year, it seems, is as simple as it is drastic.
The two men locked each other in a stare across the courtroom. It lasted a second, but it felt as though they had been staring at each other ever since they last met 10 years ago at Srebrenica, the site of Europe’s worst massacre since the World War II.
The question is not really whether Jacob will jump and when. The real question –arising out of the Hillary Squires judgement on MK stalwart Schabir Shaik — is who, or what, will ultimately have to jump with him. Or rather, who will be prepared to do so. The African National Congress, now the seat of power, has long had a shady relationship with the moral imperatives of struggle culture.
It is always gratifying to see big business tightening its belt, and Absa should be praised for its decision not to pay extravagant fees to an advertising agency to handle its "My bank" campaign. Indeed, it has become abundantly clear that Absa has not only economised by eschewing professional copywriters altogether, but has empowered previously marginalised camps by entrusting its re-branding to a band of rhesus monkeys chained to typewriters and supervised by crack addicts.
Jendayi Frazer, the United States ambassador to South Africa, speaks to the <i>Mail and Guardian </i>about the the primary strategic cosiderations driving American policy on Africa and the continent’s prospects for the G8 summit in Gleneagles.
Vodacom barely caused a ripple with its announcement last month that it would start subsidising computers in the same way it has cellphones in an effort to increase data use on its network. Beaming from a 19,5% leap in profit to R27, 3-billion and dividends of 61,9% to R3, 4-billion in the year to March, Vodacom is also hoping to boost its data traffic.
As Google’s share price flirted with $300, the world’s largest search engine shot to top spot as the most valuable media company, eclipsing Time Warner. Just 10 months since Google so controversially listed using an auction share sales method, its stock price hit an all-time high of $293 this week, giving it a market capitalisation of $80-billion.
The JSE Securities Exchange, currently trading at record levels of about 14 Â 000, ”has got the legs” to breach 15 Â 000 points, Mark Wurr, the head of trading at Global Trader 24/7, said recently. At 14 000 points, the JSE Securities Exchange is valued at a shade less than R2-trillion.
To be completed by all applicants for position as reporter/journalist in SABC news department. NB: The following questions are meant to test your general knowledge and your awareness of today’s South Africa. Answer the following questions as truthfully as you think necessary. Kirby puts SA’s media to the test.
One of the unions involved in the Metrorail pay protest called off its strike on Thursday, with the second waiting for word from its members on whether to continue the strike. The United Association of South Africa said it called off its strike on Thursday morning and asked its members to return to work.