South African diamond miner De Beers on Thursday cautioned that theft at its Premier Mine at Cullinan could threaten the future of the operation and jeopardise jobs.
Zimbabwe, Liberia, stuttering privatisation and dependency, and the ravages of HIV/Aids and malaria are blamed for the continent’s decline in growth.
Despite various efforts to chart new ideological waters from different perspectives, liberal capitalism remains the defining political economic paradigm of our time as part of the legacy of the end of the Cold War.
South African listed pharmaceutical group Aspen Pharmacare — southern Africa’s largest generics manufacturer — on Wednesday launched Aspen-Stavudine, the first generic anti-retroviral (ARV) drug developed and manufactured in Africa.
African governments must divert more resources into their decrepit and crumbling health services, a conference in Addis Ababa heard on Wednesday.
South Africa’s real retail sales surged by 2,9% m/m (40,9% annualised) in May after seasonal adjustment, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday.
South African telecommunications giant Telkom is planning a further headcount reduction over the next five years, however, CEO Sizwe Nxasana says this will be done responsibly.
South African media group New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) said on Tuesday that it has received a number of non-binding indicative offers for its bidding process which it initiated recently.
About 600 members of the National Union of Mineworkers are set to embark on a strike at Rex Mining, a diamond mine near Kimberley, from Wednesday evening following the breakdown of wage negotiations that began in April.
Mbeki identifies the defeat of global poverty as the biggest challenge facing the world economy. The aim is laudable but Mbeki has the wrong targets and the wrong model. In effect, he is barking up the wrong tree.
Human capital management and marketing advisory services firm Adcorp Holdings Limited on Tuesday announced a multi-million rand empowerment deal.
South African gold miner Harmony on Tuesday announced the annual re-statement of its ore reserves to about 410-million ounces, which makes the company the world’s largest gold resource group.
The "worst excesses" of Nazism and communism? That type of throwaway comparison with apartheid is becoming all too prevalent in a world that is beginning to forget about the true horrors of those systems.
Exciting new South African feature films star at the festival, backing 2003’s Standard Bank Young Artist award-winner <b>Dumisani Phakhati’s</b> major retrospective. This is only the third time in the long history of the awards that one has gone to a filmmaker.
Ranging from post avant-garde video installations to the figurative oils of an Eastern Cape Old Master, the exhibitions for Festival 2003 use different visual languages to articulate similar preoccupations with identity and belonging.
Something for everyone, is the mission statement of a programme designed as a total experience for the music-lover.
Cartoons, DVD piracy, angry right-wing pixies and the future of the VCR all come under Fraser’s scalpel this week.
The National Arts Festival has attracted two additional sponsors, it announced last week. The National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF) has committed a R10,5-million sponsorship to be paid over three years.
With a disturbing mix of potency and pathos, Ethiopia has again stuck out the begging bowl. The euphemistically labelled Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission (DPPC) said this week that about 12,5-million Ethiopians now need foreign food aid to survive.
Eleven new and recent plays, all written by Southern Africans, feature on the theatre programme.
"Home at last and proud to be South African", says the programme of the 2003 National Arts Festival, which runs from 27 June to 5 July 2003 in Grahamstown, heart of the Eastern Cape.
Homoeroticism is despised by most heterosexual men because it seems to challenge their own heterosexuality — and Bismarck Masangu’s column ("A little wet dream problem", March 14) is typical.
For Sister Tibebe Maco there is little reason to note, let alone celebrate, the first distribution of drugs to treat victims of the Aids pandemic in Ethiopia.
There is great concern among wheat farmers in the Western Cape about the current very poor production conditions being experienced, chairman of farmer organisation Grain South Africa Bully Botma said in a statement on Monday.
There are hundreds of top-ranked MBAs to choose from worldwide at hundreds of universities. All of them contain the hidden promise of ensuring high-quality and top-earning jobs. But what constitutes a top-quality MBA?
In the past management education and the business school were seen as playing an important role in the up-and-coming executive’s preparation for success in business. But this is no longer viewed as sufficient.
I’m surprised that Africa is so surprised that Darth Vader Jnr has failed to take action against the lethal chaos of Liberia, in spite of the (somewhat ill-considered) pleas of many of the people of that country that he should.
I’m always wary and dismayed when running into people who don’t read. Although from what I recall of my schooling, the joys of reading were low on the "things to inspire in the pupils" scale. Let me say this now. Science fiction rocks.
One of the joys about the Internet is the ability it provides to educate you and teach you things on a variety of levels. Which is why governments are using every boogeyman they can find to institute harsher and more restrictive laws to block the ‘Net and send you back to passively watching TV.
Well, war is looming on the horizon and the mad swines of the Bush Administration are drooling over the potential oil that is shortly to be theirs. (I call them mad swine instead of just swine — because of a report that Bush is considering nuclear weapons as an option.
We’re getting closer and closer to the war on Iraq (which is something of a misnomer, given that to call it a ‘war’ means you have to have <i>two</i> armies in place) and the grab for oil under the guise of keeping the world safe is imminent.
There’s that old saying: If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door. The point is that people keep trying to make that "better mousetrap", and often it’s the making of the thing itself that says more about humans and people in general than what they’re supposedly trying to achieve.