The government should consider delaying plans to list Telkom by next February and the prospects for the second national operator are looking increasingly bleak, says a leading telecommunications analyst.
Aspects of corporate governance are shaking up boardrooms by making directors more proactive in influencing decisions taken by their companies. Corporate governance is also becoming an important tool in minimising the risk of litigation for failing investors.
The National Arts Festival, which starts in Grahamstown next weekend, enters a brave new era in its bid for economic survival.
The rand’s recent recovery is not just a cause for optimism, but also a window of opportunity to be exploited in order to realise job-creating growth and a trigger for stabilising key indicators, says Iraj Abedian, group economist of Standard Bank.
Controversial retail plastic bag regulations promulgated last week by Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Mohammed Valli Moosa will become law in May next year – despite the heated opposition of industry and labour
Deceased jazz pianist Moses Taiwa Molelekwa’s recordings are to be released posthumously next week, writes Thebe Mabanga.
South Africa remains under-taxed by about 7% compared to other developing countries, an amount equivalent to R70-billion a year, according to a study by the Economic Policy Research Institute in Cape Town.
Shaken by the "savagery" of market reaction to a leaked black empowerment charter, the government has elevated the issue of empowerment in mining beyond the exclusive remit of Minister of Minerals and Energy Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
The Reserve Bank may be forced to raise interest rates for the fourth time this year in the wake of higher-than-expected producer inflation, says Dawie Roodt, chief economist at PLJ Financial Services.
Economic growth figures released this week paint a mutedly optimistic picture, but are unlikely to dissuade Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni from pushing for an interest rate hike.
BLACK empowerment must submit to the harsh rules of the market. From the lofty heights of 1998, when BusinessMap described it as a "moving experience", black economic empowerment has attained a tinge of sober pragmatism…
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/ 11 December 2001
Kwaito singer and TV star Zola has used his rapid rise to fame to celebrate gangster life in the ghetto, writes Thebe Mabanga.
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/ 7 December 2001
After eight years of providing a platform for jazz musicians, the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Music Festival has formed a jazz label, Joy Of Jazz, through Bula Music, writes Thebe Mabanga.
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/ 2 November 2001
Jimmy Dludlu’s decision to release full albums in alternate years seems to give his work a relaxed, carefully thought out sense of conceptualisation and polished performance, writes Thebe Mabanga.
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/ 1 November 2001
The Kora All Africa Music Awards could be good for local music — if we knew how to exploit them, writes Thebe Mabanga.
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/ 10 October 2001
Arthur Mafokate’s music thrived because, in its early stages, it lacked a context within which it could be appraised, writes Thebe Mabanga.
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/ 28 September 2001
International sounds come to South Africa once again, as Womad comes to town, writes Thebe Mabanga.
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/ 21 September 2001
Sarah Jones is on a mission to influence the depiction of black people in the media. She’s visiting South Africa along with fellow poet Steve Colman, writes Thebe Mabanga.
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/ 13 September 2001
In just more than a year Alexia Walker has established herself as a creative force in the local house music industry, writes Thebe Mabanga.
Ezra Ngcukana, appearing at the Joy of Jazz festival, speaks to Thebe Mabanga.
Pops Mohamed, appearing at the Joy of Jazz festival, speaks to Thebe Mabanga.
McCoy Mrubata, appearing at the Joy of Jazz festival, speaks to Thebe Mabanga.
Themba Mkhize, appearing at the Joy of Jazz festival, speaks to Thebe Mabanga.
Sipho Gumede, appearing at the Joy of Jazz festival, speaks to Thebe Mabanga.
On his latest album Lucky Dube looks to horror flicks and the afterlife for inspiration, writes Thebe Mabanga.
Lebo is one of the attractions at next month’s South African Women’s Arts Festival in Durban. She talks to Thebe Mabanga.
Thebe Mabanga speaks to filmnaker Ian Kerkhof about his controversial career.
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/ 26 January 2001
Every January, the Shembes undertake a month-long pilgrimage in Mount Nhlangakazi to honour a pledge made by their founder, the Prophet Isiah Shembe.
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/ 12 January 2001
Residents of a northern Johannesburg suburb are locked in a dispute with their council about the erection of security enclosures to help fight crime.