The state’s opposition to the Walmart/Massmart merger is sending the wrong message to corporate South Africa, argue stakeholders.
<i>Hot Sauce Committee Part Two</i> hit the streets last week to much fanfare and justifiably so.
The Walmart/Massmart merger hearing continued on Monday as a former Walmart executive was grilled on the company’s perceived hostility towards unions.
Massmart’s CEO admits he would earn a huge payout from a merger with Walmart — but denies staff were retrenched to make the company more attractive.
It’s the end of the world and you know it. Somerfaan’s new album sets the apocalypse against a soundtrack of experimental hip-hop and electronica.
Chinese investment in Africa is the single most important development of the previous decade for the continent.
The band is living up to its promise — pumping out new numbers — and breaking new ground
This year’s Splashy Fen music festival was a revelation because of the quality of Durban’s unpretentious new crop of bands.
Anglo American has admitted that it erred in preventing South African shareholder Theo Botha from attending its annual general meeting in London.
How do you support independent music when it’s not stocked by mainstream retailers? The <i>M&G</i> does Record Store Day with a difference
Johannesburg’s music connoisseurs flocked in numbers last weekend to the launch of the new Aware Record Store in Braamfontein,.
Sentech is ignoring previous failings and will once again play in the wireless broadband space at the taxpayer’s expense.
Libyan despot Muammar Gaddafi’s security forces were responsible, in 1982, for the stagnation of one of West Africa’s greatest bands.
Oesfees is a remarkable story of transformation that has tapped into farmworkers’ culture.
The Massmart/Walmart merger is facing some stiff opposition from the South African government and unions, writes <b>Lloyd Gedye</b>.
In the race to proclaim Anna Calvi the British music scene’s next bright young thing, a lot of comparisons have been bandied about.
Polly Jean Harvey, or PJ Harvey as she is known by the music-buying public, is not one to sit still.
The Competition Commission’s investigation of the steel and wire sectors has shone a light on the dealings of its key members.
Disagreement over local procurement quotas mooted by the government is at the heart of objections to the Massmart, Walmart merger.
At just eight songs it is short but Radiohead’s new album <i>The King of Limbs</i> won’t leave fans feeling shortchanged.
South Africa’s wire-mesh cartel is the latest construction sector under the spotlight of the competition authorities.
Iron & Wine’s major label debut <i>Kiss Each Other Clean</i> adds a metallic-funk veneer to Sam Beam’s gorgeous songwriting skills.
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/ 25 February 2011
Treasury aims to implement a new plan to aid local, provincial and national governments to make full use of their infrastructure budgets.
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/ 25 February 2011
The national treasury has reinforced Communication Minister Roy Padayachie’s call for Telkom’s local loop to be unbundled by November this year.
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/ 25 February 2011
Treasury has forced state-owned entities to borrow against their balance sheet.
<b>Lloyd Gedye</b> takes a musical journey through the streets of Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar’s Stone Town.
Malian duo Amadou & Mariam get the remix treatment with varying success.
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/ 21 January 2011
Acting chief executive’s resignation has not thrown the company into turmoil; it was like that before he arrived.
South Africa’s second-largest medical scheme was treated as a private cash cow by its principal officer, court papers and forensic audits suggest.
Durban’s original rock ‘n rollers the Flames strut their remastered stuff in 2011.
The government appeared to be ducking and diving following a judgement handed down against a provincial minister who was caught driving at 235km/h.
The fallout from the dirty war being fought in South Africa’s R85-billion-a-year health insurance industry grew this week.