TRANSNET TO CASH IN CARLTON
By Ian Fife
Transnet CEO Maria Ramos is likely to make a killing from the sale of the Carlton Centre, as she did recently by selling the V&A Waterfront for R7,3bn. The department of public enterprises has given the transport parastatal the go-a...
E-MAIL PHONE SHOWDOWN
By Duncan McLeod
When Samsung's Ultra Messaging i600 and Nokia's new E61i were delivered to me on the same day last week, it was too tempting not to compare the two. They're both e-mail phones, both have Qwerty keyboards and both support 3G. But the N...
REFUGEES IN NUMBERS
By Prakash Naidoo
14m refugees are under the mandate of the UN, a 14% rise from last year and the highest number since 2002. 2,1m Afghans are refugees, the main group of refu...
EAT, DRINK AND BE LITERARY
By Yvonne Fontyn
Since opening in 2000, Boekehuis in Auckland Park has built up a loyal following. Regulars receive e-mail updates about upcoming events and pack the book shop and its courtyard to listen to talks by the likes of Nadine Gordimer, Lewis ...
OLDIES STRIKE GAUTRAIN GOLD
By Ian Fife
It's the stuff of dreams; a knock on the door and an offer for your home beyond your wildest expectations. But it happens and the gentlefolk of 33-unit Chadrien Place, an ageing tudor block of flats in Sandton, are suddenly sitting on ...
A CALL TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR
It costs about 20 times as much to phone Luanda from Johannesburg as to phone Washington DC. Why is that? Most African countries are not connected to one another and phone calls have to be routed via Europe. National networks need to...
A BALANCED LIFE
By Stuart Theobald
I had no idea how interesting the topic of ballast water could be until I spoke to Garth Griffin. It's the stuff ships pump on board to keep them balanced. When they arrive at their destination, it is pumped out. Apparently it presen...
COMINGS & GOINGS
Terry Semel - Ended his six-year term as CE of Yahoo in a move considered to have been long overdue. He becomes non executive chairman of the Internet company. Semel will be replaced by Jerry Yang, a co founder. ...
IN GOOD HEALTH
By Kgomotso Mathe
Back in 1992 Chris Stevenson was living in the UK and longing to return home to SA. Fortune smiled on him when his old university friends invited him to join their health-care IT solutions company, Delta 9, as a shareholder and client services dire...
WINNERS & LOSERS
WINNER Thys Visser The Remgro CEO announced results that reflect a consistent, solid performance. Shareholders will smile after the diversified investment group gave them a R2,1bn dividend. ...
WHISPERS AROUND TOWN
The tourism industry is dumbfounded by the reappointment of Tony Ehrenreich, Cosatu's fiery Western Cape provincial secretary, to the board of Cape Town Routes Unlimited, the body marketing Cape Town and the Western Cape. The outspoken E...
IT'S AN ILL WIND . . .
By Shoks Mzolo
It's unclear how much the stand-off between the state and its employees will have cost the economy, but one thing is certain: every day of the strike, private hospital groups have generated millions of rand for their shareholders. ...
