COURSE CORRECTION
By Duncan McLeod
Cell C is planning a thorough review of its capital and controlling structure. Shareholders are looking at a number of options, which include the sale by majority shareholder Saudi Oger of its 60% stake in the company. Other opt...
CELL OPERATORS' BATTLE TO CONNECT
By Duncan McLeod
Cell C and MTN are at war. MTN alleges that the smaller operator is deploying community service telephones (CSTs) in areas that are not designated as underserviced, and has stopped paying call termination fees that Cell C says it is...
CHAOS IS CONTAINED
By Prakash Naidoo
As the credibility of Nigeria's elections lay in tatters this week, a number of SA companies doing business there said the political fallout was unlikely to affect their operations. Monday's announcement that Umaru Yar'Adua, the ...
A NEW ENEMY
By Sibonelo Radebe
Normally it's white business that finds itself in the firing line of black economic empowerment (BEE) advocates. In the property industry, though, government is in the spotlight because of the inertia and confusion surrounding the pu...
RUSHED INTO A JAM
By Nicky Smith
Last year's series of interest rate hikes will put the brakes on the building industry's economic performance this year after impressive growth of 14,4% in 2006. A report from the Bureau for Economic Research at Stellenbosch Unive...
WORK APLENTY, SKILLS LACKING
By Nicky Smith
The skills shortage remains the greatest concern for SA's onsulting engineers as their biggest client, the country's construction industry, continues to surge ahead. Growth in the construction sector has outstripped SA's economic growth rate for 19 c...
FOLLY AND FALLOW FIELDS
By Tony Hawkins
After seven years of botched "fast track" land reform, the Zimbabwe government has little to show for its endeavours other than the halving of farm output. In a new report, Zimbabwe's Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) estimates that by ...
STAY IN THE LOOP
By Jeremy Maggs
Most of the time ad agencies don't have a clue how to win pitches, and give up long before the battle is won. Strong words from Rupert Howell, who heads the European, Middle East and African operations of the global McCann-Erickson g...
TOWARDS PRO-POOR GLOBALISATION
How can globalisation and its fruits be more equitably spread so that the "poor don't become poorer", as critics of globalisation contend? Amartya Sen: I don't think it is typically the case that increased globalisation...
