NO MEETING GROUND
By Stephan Hofstätter
Creating an investment climate conducive to establishing a biofuels industry in SA has left government facing a dilemma. --li1-- In line with fiscal policy it wants to keep subsidies to a minimum. But as government finalised its biof...
TRIMMED AND TONED
By Sven Lünsche
Maria Ramos's recovery strategy at Transnet has been as systematic as it has been determined. Since taking over the helm of the state-owned transport utility 2½ years ago she has turned a moribund parastatal into a freight and logi...
AROUND THE BLOCK AND BACK
By Duncan McLeod
MTN's newly appointed SA MD, Tim Lowry, is no stranger to the SA market. As a representative of the UK's Cable & Wireless (C&W), an early shareholder in MTN, the British-born Lowry was closely involved in the licensing of the cellp...
A VIEW OF THE WOOD
By Peter Honey
If all goes to plan, the draft transformation charter for the forestry industry, released this week, will be the biggest shot in the arm for the sector in 15 years, say industry executives and analysts. What distinguishes this chart...
GLASS HALF FULL
By Claire Bisseker
The Reserve Bank's June Quarterly Bulletin, for all its flashing amber warning signs, contains one piece of overwhelmingly positive news: fixed investment has surged beyond the psychologically important benchmark of 20% of GDP...
END OF AN 80-YEAR PACT
By Stephan Hofstätter
Dumisani Mdletshe farms on a 2 ha cane plot near Eston in the KwaZulu Natal midlands. He's put 12 children through school on the proceeds, and still supports nine who are grown up but unemployed. "The thing about sugar cane is...
FINE WORDS THAT FADE
By Prakash Naidoo
This week's national policy conference by the ruling ANC has been billed as one of the most important in the organisation's 95-year history. But its importance is linked more to the fact that much of the discussion is underpinned by...
DON'T TAKE IT FOR GRANTED
By David Furlonger
Don't assume that heavy local investment by multinational motor companies guarantees their long-term presence in SA, warns Ford Southern Africa's new MD, Hal Feder. Vehicle manufacturers have invested more than R20bn here since 20...
LOTS IN A NAME
By Thandeka Gqubule
All the years of patriotic citizenship and flag-flying by retailer and legendary SA businessman Raymond Ackerman are paying dividends. From standing up to the apartheid government to supporting SA's bid to host the 2010 soccer World ...
ON A FISHING MISSION
By Sasha Planting
Shantaal Meter, CEO of the Western Cape's only all-women fishing company, is angry. Five months after her fish-packing and -processing factory opened for business early this year, allegations that she pulled political strings to secu...
