NEW PURPOSE FOR HOARDED FUNDS
By Carol Paton
Government has its eye on the unspent funds in sectoral education & training authorities (Setas) to help fund the public works programme it has promised. President Thabo Mbeki is expected to make an announcement early next month on a "massive"...

WHEN IS A WINDFALL NOT A WINDFALL?
By Shareen Singh
Was the National Electricity Regulator (NER) under political pressure when it granted Eskom an average 2,5% tariff hike for 2004? This question has been haunting some Eskom managers since the regulator rejected the utility's request to raise ta...

MORE SLICES OF THE FRANCHISE PIE
By Abdul Milazi
The Industrial Development Corp (IDC) is going big on financing franchises, which it sees as fundamental to increasing black participation in the formal economy. In the past four years the state-owned financier has pumped R425m into 27 franchi...

FIGURE WATCHERS BREATHE EASIER
By Stuart Theobald
Accountants and auditors in SA can breathe a sigh of relief. The industry will not be subjected to legislation as draconian as that inflicted elsewhere, particularly the US, in the wake of major accounting scandals and a general loss of public fa...

THE WISE APPROACH
By David Lewis
An important distinction between a restrictive practices trial and a merger evaluation is that the parties to the merger, unlike the defendants in a restrictive practices case, never have an interest in delaying a final determination. On the c...

By David Lewis
An important distinction between a restrictive practices trial and a merger evaluation is that the parties to the merger, unlike the defendants in a restrictive practices case, never have an interest in delaying a final determination. On the c...