HOW FELAPENG CAN GO WRONG
By Ian Fife
Urban designer Dennis Moss successfully brought rich and poor together in a ground-breaking Franschhoek development. He cites Stellenbosch sociology professor Dian Joubert's four problem areas "that need constant attention if any co...

POWER AT A PRICE
By Sven Lünsche
Eskom's decision to raise its capital expenditure plan from R97bn to R150bn from now to 2012 will be followed by even larger capex layouts thereafter. The Eskom board decided last month that the R97bn agreed to in 2005 would be n...

SA'S DOWN IN THE DUMPS
By Brendan Ryan
SA has dropped further behind as a destination for mining companies, according to Canada's Fraser Institute in its annual survey of the industry for 2006/2007. The rankings are based on the survey's policy potential index, arrived ...

CHANGE FROM THE CHAIR
By Heather Formby
Gill Marcus likes a challenge. "A walk in the park is something I do with my dog," she says. And that's why she accepted the role of Absa chair: "I am always looking for something to keep me learning, active and interested." ...

BANKING ON MORE GOLF

Outgoing Absa chairman Danie Cronje hasn't decided what he will do with the rest of his life. But he won't completely abandon the world of banking, of which he has been part for more than 30 years. Cronje will remain on the Barcla...

AGE ISN'T EVERYTHING
By Nicky Smith
Yolanda Cuba is 10 minutes late for our interview. Waiting in the early morning chill at the Park Hyatt, I am determined not to like the recently announced CE of Mvelaphanda Group. I colour her marginal tardiness with the arrogance a...

BOUND TO TAKE STRAIN
By David Furlonger
Retailers and their suppliers are wasting up to R7bn each year because the supply chain from factory to store is outdated and inefficient. SA's consumer boom and the growing variety of goods available are stretching the capacity of...

RECYCLERS READY FOR SCRAP
By David Furlonger
Scrap metal merchants and aluminium recyclers are slugging it out over the fate of hundreds of thousands of tons of scrap aluminium. Recyclers say that because up to two-thirds of available scrap is exported, their factories are o...

ALUMINIUM GOES ROUND AND ROUND
By David Furlonger
SA is a tiny player in the aluminium recycling business. According to a report by the Global Aluminium Recycling Committee, between 1990 and 2002 international demand for aluminium grew from 28 Mt to 45 Mt. Over the same period, the ...

FREE OR EQUAL?
By Prakash Naidoo
When Sunali Pillay arrived back at school from a holiday break wearing a nose stud, little did the Durban Girls' High School pupil know that this act would end up with her being written into SA's law books. The school said the stu...

RICH BUT RISKY PICKINGS
By Brendan Ryan
There will be plenty of buyers for the historic Cullinan diamond mine, near Pretoria, when De Beers offers it for sale. Cullinan, which was first opened in 1902 and includes the legendary 3 106 carat Cullinan Diamond among its gems,...

READY FOR ACTION
By Jeremy Maggs
New Marketing Association (MA) board member Nicola Kleyn says the fledgling body has finally given the industry much-needed momentum after 18 months in the wilderness. But she and the rest of her large, 14-member board - apparentl...

A PRACTICAL SURVIVAL PLAN
By Stephan Hofstätter
President Thabo Mbeki's favourable reception of the Renosterrivier land reform plan suggests a new pragmatism may be taking root in government's efforts to reverse SA's skewed land ownership patterns. Almost a year ago a group of ...