Staff Reporter

The Wits Business School (WBS) continues to provide its students with unique opportunities to integrate their academic learning with real work experience. The school will offer its full-time students internship at prestigious organisations during their study programme.

They treat their Nobel prize winners rather differently in the United States. Forty-five years after winning the Nobel prize — along with British scientists Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins — for discovering the structure of DNA, James “Jim” Watson is still regarded in the US as quasi-royalty.

In Ekurhuleni, Sibongile* supports three young children while clutching at a safety net of informally occupied land. After losing her employment as a domestic worker and the accommodation that came with it, she needed to keep a foothold in the city. Like most people in the Somalia informal settlement she is acutely aware of how tenuous her claim to the land is, but says: "It’s life, I borrowed it."

This is why you should encourage your kids to cross their fingers behind their backs while placing their hands on their hearts and reciting the new Pledge of Allegiance: Size matters. It’s three times the length of the American one.

Let’s vote on Scorpions One can understand the ANC’s need to heal divisions and consolidate one centre of power, but can the country afford to drain the baby with the bathwater? So I repeat the question posed by Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya: Why the haste? What’s the rationale for the seeming desperation to ‘lose” […]

In this article the results of the surveys of the experiences of the interviewees during the audit visits to three institutions in 2005 are reported. But the audit visits should not be seen in isolation from the broader, multi-year, multi-phased audit process as a whole. "Audit" should therefore not be equated with "audit visit".

Records tumble as the oil majors release their annual results. The most profit made by any company ever: ExxonMobil’s $40-billion. Amid the noise about capital allocation and windfall taxes, there is a danger of missing the most important results of all. The oil and gas production of Shell, BP, ExxonMobil and Chevron is going down, not up.

Service providers, it appears, are taking management of our finances into their own hands by assuming that we are unable to make provisions for regular debit orders. This month two debit orders ran off our household account early. I noticed because they went off before pay day and as a result bounced.

Eskom’s countdown to catastrophe began in 2000 when it had enough coal stockpiled to last 61 days. Last month, when it shut down the country’s mines, the stockpiles were down to less than three days’ supply. A deliberate policy began in 2000 to reduce the coal stockpile to better manage operating costs.

I’ve never really been taken in by the whole “men in dresses, beard and Kalashnikov” combo. The same goes for the awe and fear the image inspires in certain quarters. Then again, I’m no Salman Rushdie. I’ve been known to don the occasional burqa — but only for festive purposes, and not on pain of death.