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.
A Western Cape Congress of South African Trade Union (Cosatu) official who met leaders of the Zimbabwean trade union movement in the Cape Town on Friday says President Robert Mugabe’s time as head of his state should end.
South Africa’s second largest gold miner Gold Fields is toying with the idea of splitting the group into two companies, one housing its South African operations and the other its international operations, chief executive officer (CEO) Ian Cockerill said on Friday.
The Stellenbosch wine region in the Western Cape should seriously consider wine tourism as an option to counter the stranglehold of the stronger rand on wine exports.
The retail price of petrol in South Africa will rise by 18 cents a litre on Wednesday August 6, the Department of Minerals and Energy said on Friday.
South Africa went on trial this week: a trial of conscience, integrity and commitment to the values enshrined in our republic’s founding document. It is time for the nation to ask what our attitude to malfeasance is.
Analysts cautiously welcomed the Randgold & Exploration Company’s black empowerment foray this week, saying the novel asset-swap element in its R235-million deal with consortium Phikoloso Mining was a positive development.
The spectre of falling inflation has prompted growing demands for further interest rate cuts. But some experts have warned that higher wage settlements and buoyant credit demand may delay such a decision by the Reserve Bank.
Life-saving nevirapine may soon be banned for use in mother-to-child transmission cases. How has this absurd situation — the latest in the continuing tragicomedy surrounding Aids treatment — arisen?
Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s inspiring announcement last week about a herbal remedy for Aids-related diseases was yet further proof of our health department’s imaginative approach to crisis.
From the moment Graeme Smith won the toss at Edgbaston, he defied a recent spate of Test-match results at this venue by batting first. In recent times, the teams batting here first have lost.
The recent theft of monies from private internet banking accounts using sleuth software highlights how business risk has altered dramatically since the adoption of the internet as a medium for business transactions.
The release of a consultancy report on a second telecommunications fixed-line network operator (SNO) to rival partially-privatised monopoly Telkom has been delayed till next week, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) confirmed on Thursday.
South Africa recorded a trade surplus of R3,301-billion for its trade with non-Southern African Customs Union (SACU) trading partners in June, according to the latest Customs & Excise figures released on Thursday. This compared with a surplus of R3,2-billion rand in May.
The Department of Labour has launched a probe into the circumstances surrounding the death of an Ekurhuleni municipal worker on the East Rand — one of the 100 workers who are killed in workplace accidents in South Africa every month.
The CCMA, UIF and Nedlac are included in a list of some of SA’s key labour market institutions under the spotlight recently as they struggle to meet their statutory obligations. And Labour Appeal Courts could be a thing of the past.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa on Wednesday said it was duty bound to consult workers in the steel and engineering sectors on the latest proposals made by the Steel, Engineering Industry Federation of South Africa.
When it comes to combating poverty, Botswana is Africa’s top performer, followed by South Africa in second place, according to the Economic Commission for Africa’s latest Economic Report on Africa.
Two hundred and thirty thousand members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) are poised to go on strike if the union and the Steel, Engineering Industry Federation of South Africa (Seifsa) don’t reach an agreement on wage increases for this year.
South African producer prices for all commodities rose 2,3% in the 12 months to end June from a revised 1,2% (1,1%) for the 12 months to end May, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday.
The ANC has "seriously reprimanded" and fined its national chairman and Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota and suspended the membership of former chief whip Tony Yengeni, although the latter’s sanction was conditionally suspended for three years.
I was highly amused at the frighteningly self-obsessed and shocked statements by most of the local wannabe "human shields" who left for Baghdad, only to run home with their little frightened yellow quivering tails between their legs a week or so later.
You may not know this but the Antarctic is only around 3 000 kilometres south of Port Elizabeth. It’s close enough to go snooping. Why? Well apart from going somewhere which hopefully will never have a Big Mac sign – it’s the site of a mystery known as Lake Vostok.
It was in Antonioni’s classic film, <i>Blow Up</i>, that a photo was taken of a quiet park scene, but only after repeatedly enlarging the picture, the hero discovers that a murder was actually taking place unnoticed. It’s this same re-evaluation of reality and closer inspection that’s needed when you look at some of the media pictures coming out of Iraq.
Since I got online way back in the gunmetal gray, ad-free days of the mid-Nineties, I’ve done many things online which I hope no one ever finds out about — but the one thing I’ve always wanted to do, was to start my own begging site.
One of the reasons that closet fascist governments worldwide have been
rapidly introducing more and more legislation to control and monitor the
Internet, is because now Democracy is available to the lazy. In other words,
you don’t need to get up off the couch and go onto the street to protest
anything, its all available to you via your keyboard and monitor.
I was thinking about Vampirism recently, which naturally led to Telkom, how they spend fortunes of our money on TV adverts telling us how good they are, how they’re protected by law from competition and how wonderful it will be when a real communications company comes into South Africa and kickstarts the beginning of the Internet for everyone at a cheap price.
The Internet exists for three reasons. Information, news and of course, good old pornography. (Not that anyone really knows what pornography is). So let’s look at a range of fake and satirical porn sites, set up to play with the fairly obsessive human compulsion and interest in fornication.
So you think you know what’s really going on in Iraq, having read all the breaking news features in your morning paper and tuned in to the 8 o’clock news every night, like a good democracy-supporting citizen? You like to consider yourself politically aware and uptodate on current affairs then? I think you might find the following interesting then…
As the regime in America spreads its tentacles further and has clearly begun eyeing the oil reserves in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa, we’ll be seeing more and more of the CIA-construct known as Al Qieda (sp) popping up and doing things, to justify a US and UN presence.
People arent always aware locally of just how much history is available online. The truth is that history explains why you sit frustrated, riddled with debt, ruled by morons and politically powerless. Welcome to the Matrix, in other words.