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/ 27 November 2006
Tamzin Ractliffe, founder of Greater Good South Africa, believes the same principles governing financial investments should be brought to bear on social investments. After all, as the shareholder of a JSE-listed company, you have access to a plethora of information about the company’s balance sheets, earnings and future potential.
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/ 27 November 2006
Barney Barnato would hardly recognise what’s left of the rapidly disappearing Johannesburg Consolidated Investments (JCI), the mining empire he formed in 1889. Barnato was long gone by the time Johnnic had shape-shifted into a mining, industrial and media empire. The dismantling of the group started in 1995 with the unbundling of the mining and industrial interests.
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/ 27 November 2006
A growing cacophony of economists — including those commissioned by government — are saying that Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni has significant wiggle room to maintain the rand at competitive levels, which will boost export and manufacturing growth. The critical chorus says a more competitive currency can be achieved through market-friendly interventions.
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/ 27 November 2006
British dance-pop outfit Faithless are back in South Africa, performing in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
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/ 27 November 2006
The anti-apartheid struggle attempted to create a country free of all oppressions based on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, language, geographical location and (dis)ability. This is the country of the Constitution. Yet the legacy of apartheid continues to be felt by the black poor, who are written out of capital, most victimised and predominantly women.
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/ 27 November 2006
On the fringes of the talks on the future of the Kyoto Protocol which took place recently in Nairobi, Kenya, indigenous people and NGOs have been telling delegates how the investments in developing countries’ "clean energy" projects — which are now fuelling world carbon markets — are exacting a terrible price, with communities being robbed of their land, and livelihoods damaged by projects such as hydro-electric dams and fast-growing tree plantations.
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/ 27 November 2006
On March 7 2004, when I was 17 years old, I started hating all men. It took one man to make me hate all men. I hated him so much. The only thing I could think of was killing him. On that night I made a promise to myself that I’d never associate myself with any other man. I blamed myself. The thought of him on top of me, unable to defend myself made facing tomorrow impossible, writes Kebarileng Sebetoane.
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/ 27 November 2006
Imagine you were a foreign power that wanted to get rid of a dissident who had set up home in London. Would you a) push the troublemaker under a bus, b) have him mown down by a hit-and-run driver or c) arrange for him to be poisoned while eating in a crowded restaurant? If you wanted to make the death look natural, or just to keep things simple, you would presumably avoid the restaurant scenario.
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/ 27 November 2006
Since their election victory last January, Hamas leaders have come under fierce United States and European pressure to moderate their rejectionist stance and cut a deal with the moderate Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas. But now the squeeze on Ehud Olmert’s government is also growing as the "international community", fearing a region-wide implosion, gears up for another drive for peace.
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/ 27 November 2006
The campaign to ensure that Jacob Zuma succeeds Thabo Mbeki as president of South Africa has produced a virus that threatens the health of many of our key democratic institutions. The executive, the National Prosecuting Authority, the press and the judiciary have all fallen to the attack — and the coherence of the ruling party, itself a key to the success of our peaceful transition to constitutional democracy, has been shaken.