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/ 25 November 2005
It may never have been his intention, but Sizwe Nxasana, the incoming CEO of First Rand Retail, could very well be employment equity and black economic empowerment’s knight in shining black armour. Nxasana, better known for his seven-and-a-half-year stint as Telkom’s CEO, says he owes his rise to the measures put in place after 1994 to redress the race-based economic divide.
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/ 25 November 2005
There is a revolution spreading countrywide. It is happening in towns and cities as disparate as Knysna and Johannesburg, in big places like Durban, Cape Town and Tshwane, and small ones like Stellenbosch. At least 34 other muncipalities are also in on the game, racing to set up their own telecommunication networks.
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/ 25 November 2005
"To Marilyn, I hope this helps keep you on time. All my love, Joe." That is the inscription inside a compact topped with a little watch that was given to legendary actress Marilyn Monroe by her second husband, Joe DiMaggio — one of hundreds of pieces of Marilyn memorabilia on show for the first time in the world aboard the floating museum <i>Queen Mary</i> in Long Beach, California.
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/ 25 November 2005
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma is determined to fight on, despite agreeing to the issuing of a public ANC statement that projected his cause as a lost one. Zuma’s aides insist the statement issued by the ANC after its national executive committee (NEC) meeting last weekend was a "public relations exercise" to project the image of a unified movement.
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/ 25 November 2005
How very satisfying to read the front page headline in last week’s ”Business” insert in this paper. It gave expression to a desire inscribed on the very sub-conscious of this nation. The headline to Lloyd Gedye’s splendid article was ”Knysna’s ‘up yours’ to Telkom”. There are few in this country who, seeing that headline, would be able to resist reading the story it introduced.
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/ 25 November 2005
”There is often a sneering quality to the coverage and analysis of black economic empowerment, which threatens to debase a necessary transfer of wealth. It can lock critics and proponents into racialised corners, making it difficult to sort the empowerment wheat from the enrichment chaff,” writes Ferial Haffajee, editor of the Mail & Guardian.
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/ 25 November 2005
Brian Lara became only the second player to pass 11 000 Test runs as he produced his long-awaited first century of the series against Australia in the final cricket Test at Adelaide Oval on Friday. The 36-year-old West Indian batting great joined Australian world record holder Allan Border (11 174 runs) to single-handedly lead the Caribbean tourists to 194 for four at tea.
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/ 25 November 2005
”Kibaki out! Kibaki out!” was the cry on the streets of Kenya as thousands of people celebrated the defeat of a draft Constitution its opponents had branded a “recipe for dictatorship”. A mere three years ago, the same Kenyans, had massed to support Mwai Kibaki with the mantra of ”Kibaki tosha [forward]!”
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/ 25 November 2005
Depriving young children of cuddles and attention subtly changes how their brains develop and in later life can leave them anxious and poor at forming relationships, according to a study published recently. Love and affection from parents and carers are vital to developing brain pathways associated with handling stress and forming social bonds, the researchers found.
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