BEE BATTLE LINES DRAWN
By Sibonelo Radebe
A walkout by eight labour and community sector representatives is threatening the future of the Financial Sector Charter (FSC). The eight have stopped working with the FSC council (which has 21 representatives) after disagreement ove...
BILLIONS FOR FIBRE ROLL-OUT
By Duncan McLeod
A new telecommunications infrastructure company, backed by former public enterprises director-general Eugene Mokeyane, Dimension Data co founder Richard Came, and investment holding company VenFin, plans to invest billions in the next ...
WINNERS & LOSERS
WINNER Jake White Finally he leaves on his own terms after guiding the Springboks to World Cup victory, and will no doubt get some big offers from clubs and other countries. And his book has been flying off the shelves. ...
WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE
By Shannon Sherry
Daphne Mashile-Nkosi promises that we are going to hear more about her. As chair of Kalagadi Manganese, Mashile-Nkosi presided over the recent R4,2bn joint-venture deal struck with multinational steel giant ArcelorMittal. It has ...
FROM A WHIM TO A FLEET
By Shoks Mzolo
Joel Singh started a car-hire business on a whim in 2004. Three years later he runs a fleet of 60, owns a block of flats and a hotel in Sandton, and runs an SAP consultancy in Secunda. All at 31. Singh was a landlord at 26 when he bought and ...
OFFICE RENTS BREAK R200
By Ian Fife
Bad news for corporate SA is last week's signing by law firm Webber Wentzel of a lease for the penthouse on listed fund Redefine's Convention Tower in Cape Town at R200/m². The triple-A building adjoining the city's convention centr...
MORE THAN A PRETTY FACE
By Duncan McLeod
Apple knows how to do eye candy. Its new operating system, Mac OS X Leopard, is a veritable feast of shiny, pretty graphics that makes Windows Vista, the rival from Microsoft, look very last decade. The reflective 3D Dock (Apple...
SECOND CHANCES
The issue of the presidential pardons is being described as the "unfinished business" of the TRC process. Would you agree with this? No How do you feel about this issue being handled by way of pardons, considering there is so mu...
COMINGS & GOINGS
Shaun Liebenberg The board is looking for a successor to "manage Denel's turnaround strategy to completion" because Liebenberg will leave at the end of May when his three-year contract as group CEO expires. ==li2...
TAKING ACCOUNT OF LESSONS LEARNT
By Amarnath Singh
Nonkululeko Gobodo founded the accountancy firm Gobodo nearly 12 years ago. She had qualified as a chartered accountant in 1987, the first black woman to do so in SA. But two years after her groundbreaking firm was born she "decided to...
AIRLINE STAFF
By Sharon Chetty
Is the ability to swim among the basic requirements for new airline staff recruits? Current rules do not have swimming as a requirement for the initial training of a cabin crew member. The SA Civil Aviation Authority requires that cabin c...
MIGRATION IN NUMBERS
By Sharon Chetty
190m people, or 3% of the world's population, lived outside their country of birth in 2005, a doubling of the figure from 1960. 95m - or almost half - of international migrants are women. US$200bn is the amount of remit...
HISTORY CAN BE FUN
By Sharon Chetty
The combination of open space, a stunning subterranean museum, restaurants with reasonably good cuisine, and a chance to explore ancient caves is a rarity, which makes visiting the Cradle of Humankind a treat every time. No m...
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"The events at Alexander Forbes are a microcosm of SA's wider transformation challenges and pose difficult questions for us all" - CYRIL RAMAPHOSA REFLECTING ON THE RUCTIONS CAUSED by Peter Moyo's recent resignation ...
