If the continent opens up he could emerge as Africa’s champion.
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/ 15 November 2010
This scheme could save you big bucks. Sounds too good to be true.
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/ 29 October 2010
Populism is a big lie – manipulating beliefs regardless of the facts – and we’ve experienced it in Eastern Europe, Africa and, more recently at home.
One in six adults is unemployed but the ANC’s economic report mentions ‘jobs’ only twice.
South Africa has more coal than it can ever burn, right? If you think this, as many of us do, think again.
Never mind nationalisation — ANC delegates in Durban should address the country’s power crisis.
The fallout has been so intense at times, you could be forgiven for thinking that a revolution had broken out rather than just a strike.
Four hundred cyclists, three countries, about 260km and 1 400 jumbos make up the Tour de Tuli.
Mineral resources minister plays down furore over mining rights.
The arrival of a new newspaper on the scene always evokes interest, not only among newspaper people.
Those with jobs emerge as a major new force,
but it’s at the expense of the unemployed.
But my interest is how Dames intends dealing with other pressing legacy issues that are stacked up in his in-tray, writes <b>Kevin Davie</b>.
It might be summer in the northern hemisphere but the chilly winds that have seen budget deficits slashed by many countries are continuing to blow.
You could hardly credit the appreciation of this high-brow audience for this crass, brash and possibly the world’s cheapest instrument.
<b>Kevin Davie</b> was present at court to observe the case of Jacob Maroga versus Eskom.
Hosting the World Cup is like planning for a family wedding, so get excited. This is according to <b>Kevin Davie</b>.
We — Mike Roy, Lynn Morris and I — have come to check out Namahadi as a possible way into Lesotho on a north-south mountain bike traverse.
Mr IRP2 has a plan but whether it’s feasible remains to be seen.
State enterprise and coal loom large in IRP2,
<b>Lynley Donnelly</b> and <b>Kevin Davie</b> report.
Uncertainty has become the new certainty as volcanic ash kept planes grounded across Europe for a week.
Aluminium smelters get electricity for anything from
12c a kilowatt hour; the rest of us pay at least 31c.
Where efficiency and diversity could shape energy policy, coal and Eskom dominate. Are the ANC’s investments in Chancellor House to blame?
Nuclear power appeals to some … others are simply repelled.
Penge started out as a short stopover for
Kevin Davie while on a cycling trip. But he was drawn back by the inhabitants living amid poisonous dust.
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies’s ‘new’ industrial policy contains ideas that are old and tired.
We can be thankful that it was Gwede Mantashe and not Julius Malema who mooted the idea of nationalising the Reserve Bank.
The ‘E’ word, electricity, hardly got a mention in the budget; private supply seems a distant dream.
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/ 20 February 2010
The fuss around Carl Niehaus obscures a much more serious matter.
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/ 10 February 2010
If ever there was a poster for why nationalisation sucks, Alexcor, Eskom, SAA, SABC, Denel and Sentech would feature boldly and largely on it.
Concentrating on two massively expensive power stations, and ignoring independent producers, could be the parastatal’s downfall.
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/ 15 January 2010
<i>Kevin Davie</i> argues that canoeist Graeme Pope-Ellis is the country’s pre-eminent sportsman.
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/ 11 January 2010
Want to save yourself some serious money? Try investing in electric bike futures, writes Kevin Davie.