DEPLETED UNION FUNDS THREATEN LABOUR STABILITY

Trade unions are deeply embedded in, and an essential feature of, SA's socioeconomic and political life. With government and business, they form one of the three social pillars that underpin our consensus-building mechanisms, the alternative to con...

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT PROPERTY WAS SAFE AGAIN

The property sector's reviving reputation as a stable investment haven, with its focus on protecting wealth, has been jolted. Abruptly, we have the collapse of Cenprop's net assets and income, inevitably followed by its demise. What went wrong? Thi...

ANOTHER WEEK
ANOTHER WEEK

AT HOME US ambassador to SA Cameron Hume says the Africa Growth & Opportunities Act generated an additional R10bn expor...

PETER WILHELM'S COLUMN
THE STATE WE'RE IN
By Peter Wilhelm
BUT AT LEAST HE DIDN'T TRY TO KISS THE REF What on earth is society coming to if an obese, drunken oaf cannot run onto the playing field and rip off the head of an offending referee? I am, of course, not ref...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
TIME FOR ALAN GREENSPAN TO GO
James Picton, London, via e-mail.
Alan Greenspan's efforts as chairman of the US Federal Reserve are increasingly vain and useless. History will totally reconsider the...

NO FLEXIBLE TARGETING
Francis Daniels, francisdaniels@compuserve.com
I disagree with Nazmeera Moola's call for a more flexible inflation target (By Invitation July 19). It is hard to see how inflation ...

ALL SORTED NOW
H Nortje, director: operations, Capital Alliance.
With reference to R J Chapman's Letter (August 16), we have contacted him and all issues in respect of the Norwich/Fedsure policy ha...

OFFENDED BY BIG BRO
"Irate passive viewer", via e-mail
As though the popularity of Big Brother is not in itself enough of a depressing reminder of the level of intellect of the masses, we...

NOT JUST EMPLOYMENT
Ivan Cohen, Bantry Bay, Cape Town.
Your annual survey of MBA courses (Cover Story August 2) acknowledges some of the sources of bias in the evaluation protocol. One ma...

LAUGHING EVEN HARDER
N J Marks, njmarks@iafrica.com
A couple of old investor friends and I had a good laugh when the new JSE indices were introduced. The lengthy defence of the system by JSE ...

THE NEW RACISM
Rupert Jones, dairymen@sai.co.za
The minerals bill is causing a stir, but what's new? We hear daily about black empowerment and affirmative action. These measures are blunt...

NOT COMMUNICATING
Brian Levine, levbrian@executivemail.co.za
There is something cynical about Telkom evangelising in its annual report how it is helping bridge the digital divide. The fact is that it ...

EDITOR'S NOTE
EDITOR'S NOTE
By Michael Coulson
The row between the International Cricket Council and its players over sponsorships underlines the hollowness of much of what now passes for international cricket. More and more meaningless events are being organised whose sole purpose is to generate...