Nothing pulls in the audiences like the World Cup. But how do the rands and cents stack up? Kevin Davie explains.
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/ 11 December 2009
Why does it take the loss of a million jobs to get business and labour to call for measures to protect jobs?
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/ 2 December 2009
South African households can cut their electricity
consumption by 10%. Kevin Davie explains how.
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/ 27 November 2009
Paying lip service to empowerment is not enough — true transformation requires efficiency and better prices as well.
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/ 13 November 2009
If there’s a single feature that dominates South Africa, it is the Drakensberg. Kevin Davie discovered this when he cycled the rand from end-to-end.
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/ 27 October 2009
If you wanted to have a smart guy in charge of economic policy, you could hardly do better than Ebrahim Patel.
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/ 17 October 2009
Eskom has been battling to keep the lights on. Now it wants to shoot them out.
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/ 15 October 2009
We’re somewhere between the petroleum age and renewables, writes Kevin Davie.
I have often been asked if I am not scared to be out by myself. Coming into Wakkerstroom at night I frightened something large in the the grass.
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/ 28 September 2009
I left Ardmore with a herd of Nguni cattle. They were making their way to the fields to spend yet another day grazing.
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/ 23 September 2009
I would not be leaving Wakkerstroom in a rush. A late arrival generally means a late departure. I had a blog to write, but mostly I had to eat.
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/ 22 September 2009
The last time a group of us cycled from Badplaas we took the Chrissiesmeer road which runs south-west.
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/ 17 September 2009
I was in a state of disbelief when I reached Ohrigstad. The day had been so hot and it took so long that I was surprised to be there.
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/ 14 September 2009
The Iron Crown in Haenertsburg seems a good place to begin a perambulation by bike from one end of the Drakensberg to the other.
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/ 14 September 2009
When I started work on a mountain bike route along the Drakensberg, I was pleased to see that the trail would likely pass near Amajuba.
The power utility has recorded a near R10-billion loss mainly through its exposure to the aluminium market.
It seemed for a while, after 1994, that all would be different. Very capable people, both editorial and commercial, were employed at the new-look SABC.
Here’s an Mbeki-era legacy which needs a Zuma-type plan to fix. The legacy is SABC International.
The Drakensberg does a vanishing act on Kevin Davie as he maps out a mountain bike route from one end to the other.
When I first moved to Johannesburg in the 1970s, the idea of a green connected space running through the northern parts of the city didn’t exist.
Kevin Davie looks at the difference a woollen hat can make to your electricity bills.
For a long time I had the last King report of corporate governance on my desk.
The brilliance of a politician can often be measured by timing. In Trevor Manuel’s case he has passed the ball to Gordhan at the right time for him.
Warren Buffett famously said that when the tide goes out you can see who has been swimming without a costume.
Xstrata’s letter to Anglo American proposes a merger of equals, we are told. The diversified miner sees savings of $750-million a year from the entity
The rand shruggs off uncertainty ahead of the announcement, expected this week, by Jacob Zuma of his choice of Cabinet.
Kevin Davie goes in search of a mountain bike route through the northern Drakensberg.
Trevor Manuel’s sure hand on the tiller has guided the economy through an unprecedented growth phase and ensured that we are in better shape.
Another way to think about the prospects of recovery is last week’s US wealth data. Americans lost a collective $12.7-trillion last year.
The bad news is that the SA economy is in recession, says a leading economist. The good news is that we’re halfway through. Kevin Davie reports.
Municipalities want to roll out solar. Big time. Kevin Davie reports.
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and US President Obama both like to get more bang from each buck.