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/ 7 September 2009
Neil Young launches his long-awaited Archives Series with an eight-disc compilation of the first decade of his recording career. Lloyd Gedye takes a listen.
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/ 6 September 2009
The Department of Labour’s new director general warns companies to get their employment equity plans in order, writes Lloyd Gedye.
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/ 4 September 2009
South African steel giants have been running a cartel for almost 10 years and divided up major private and public infrastructure projects among them.
The BLK JKS talk about world tours, international labels and recording South African rock’s magnum opus. Lloyd Gedye reports.
Vehicle repossessions in South Africa appear to have bottomed out, a sign that the worst of the recession might be over.
e.tv launches court bid to halt digital migration, with Sentech’s monopoly the sticking point.
From 1970s funky Lagos to Afrobeat circa 2009, Lloyd Gedye gets down to the sounds of Nigeria.
Three icons showed how exciting African music can be at the Bushfire Festival in Swaziland, reports Lloyd Gedye.
Local and global economic conditions have reinforced the critical importance of effective leadership in South African companies.
Acoustic Africa, a collaboration between three of Africa’s most successful musicians, wowed the crowd at the recent Bushfire Festival in Swaziland.
Government is leaning on South Africa’s large mobile companies to bring down interconnection rates.
While the arrival of the Seacom cable is great news for bandwidth starved SA, the launch at Neotel’s Midrand data centre was a damp squib.
The Buckfever Underground may have been scarce of late, but its members have been creating some individual gems, writes Lloyd Gedye.
Despite a budget shortfall of as much as R60-billion, experts say everything is more or less under control.
Farmers and food analysts are in agreement: South Africa’s supermarket chains have too much power and are squeezing margins down through the chain.
With Telkom having held the country to ransom following its privatisation in 1997, government has taken a leaf out of <i>Terminator</i>.
Pioneer Foods’s bakery arm, Sasko, is shirking responsibility for contraventions of the Competition Act, the Competition Tribunal heard on Monday.
The Competition Tribunal hearing into whether Pioneer Foods was a member of a national bread cartel continued on Friday.
Pioneer Foods faces a fine of over a billon rand if it fails to clear its name as an alleged member of the bread cartel, writes Lloyd Gedye.
In a bid to clear its name and avoid a R1,2-billion fine, Pioneer Foods pulled out all the stops at the Competition Tribunal hearing.
Pioneer Foods goes before the Competition Tribunal claiming it was not part of a bread cartel.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation’s debt mountain is even larger than reported — the public broadcaster owes SuperSport nearly R100-million.
Lloyd Gedye returns to some musical stalwarts of his youth and ends up severely disappointed by their new albums.
Amadou & Mariam are making a mockery of the term "world music", writes Lloyd Gedye.
Mooinooi resident: Everyone is suffering here. Women will start to sell their bodies and there will be an increase in pregnancy.
If you had to sum up Johannesburg instrumental band Tale of the Son in one word, that word would be relentless.
Andries Mlangeni lives in Majakenena, a feeder village for Mooinooi, with his wife and five-year-old son.
Mooinooi, a one-employer town, where many workers have a single skill, is hurting badly as a result of Wall Street’s excesses.
With a new record label launched and a new television show set to launch soon, Deconstruction are at the forefront of cutting-edge South African music
Sasol has settled some of the collusion charges it is facing, but more is to come, writes Lloyd Gedye.
With five key divisions of Sasol under investigation by competition authorities in SA and abroad, its senior management is in the firing line.
Lloyd Gedye is enchanted by Dear Reader’s new album, Replace Why with Funny, and takes a listen to some great new international compilations.