Vusi Khanyile is one of the most unflappable defenders of an unorthodox empowerment strategy you are likely to encounter. The 55-year-old founding MD, now chairperson and CEO of Thebe Investments displays single-mindedness about the course his company has pursued, not just over the past five years, but over the course of about 14 years.
"For all his apparent loyalty to gold, Brett Kebble was a man of paper, a man dragged by his paper creations into a vortex of debt. How differently things might have turned out had he stuck to gold, a quiet life in the suburbs and a modicum of recognition." In this edited extract from <i>Brett Kebble: The Inside Story</i>, Barry Sergeant takes a look at the slain businessman’s shady empire.
Ensuring that clients get value for money from outdoor advertising has always been a headache. Now a key innovation in research technology could draw more adspend to outdoor. Graeme Addison looks at how innovators in the media are embracing "creative destruction" of the old by the new.
A former boss of one of the travel agencies implicated in the parliamentary travel voucher scam spent an hour-and-a-half behind bars on Monday for his lack of co-operation in a liquidation inquiry. David Phokeng, an ex-director of the now-liquidated Bathong Travel, was detained in the holding cells of the Bellville Magistrate’s Court at the request of the attorney acting for the liquidators, Bernhard Kurz.
A by-election in the Harare township of Budiriro will offer the clearest barometer yet of the electoral support that the two Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) factions command. That is if voters are not confused by the bizarre phenomenon that the MDC logo will appear twice on the ballot paper.
Monday marked the 58th anniversary of the founding of Israel — and the expulsion of Palestinians from their land. With millions still living under occupation or in exile, what Palestinians call their ‘nakba’ — their catastrophe — remains at the heart of their national identity, argues Karma Nabulsi
Acts of violence have killed nearly 2 500 people and forced more than 85 000 to flee their homes in Iraq, the United Nations assistance mission in Iraq said on Tuesday in a March-April report on the human rights situation. The fatality count was comprised of death certificates issued by the Baghdad morgue, the report said.
”The privacy you’re concerned about is largely an illusion. All you have to give up is your illusions, not any of your privacy.” That wasn’t Vodacom boss Alan Knott-Craig comforting his customers about the new kit he will shortly be installing on his network to help government snoops listen in on cellphone calls. It was Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, explaining why concerns about civil liberties should be no obstacle to his proposal that all Americans be required to carry ID cards.
United States authorities found 000 stuffed in a freezer at the home of a US lawmaker under federal investigation for corruption and shady deals in West Africa, court documents showed on Monday. Democratic representative William Jefferson was involved in bribery schemes and suspect business deals in Nigeria and Ghana, according to an FBI affidavit.
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