HOPE STILL DISTANT
By Ian Fife
The way housing minister Lindiwe Sisulu talked up her achievements at a lavish party to launch the Housing Development Agency in Durban a few weeks ago, you'd think she'd performed a miracle. "We've built 2,8m homes and provided ho...
SAD WAR THAT NOBODY WINS
By Ian Fife
A fruitless four-year battle at Johannesburg's urban edge comes to a head in a R170m defamation case at the Pretoria high court next week. It's a bitter lesson in how environmentalists and developers must still learn to work together. ...
JOINED AT THE HIP
By David Williams
Motorists on Oxford Road and elsewhere may have been taken aback by ANC posters proclaiming in Greek, Italian and Portuguese that "together we can do more" - the party's election slogan. But the posters are no gimmick. They are part...
CLARITY NEEDED ON COUNCIL
By Shannon Sherry
Since the end of apartheid the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) has been caught between conflicting attitudes to agriculture that have negatively affected its funding and functioning, says CEO Shadrack Moephuli. He says the broad...
GOODBYE TO MOONSHINE
By Sasha Planting
For the beer purists at SABMiller, brewing a lager with anything less than 100% barley malt fills them with horror. But to many Africans, hops and barley are foreign ingredients in beer. SABMiller, determined to grow its market shar...
MEDSHIELD CLAWS BACK
By Shoks Mzolo
Medshield boss Clinton Alley has his work cut out as he attempts to grow the country's sixth-largest medical scheme and shrug off its history of bad governance. Medshield's beneficiary base has shrunk by a third (or 100 000) since 2...
WELCOME MAT IS PUT OUT
By Razina Munshi
Zimbabwe is portraying the collapse of its currency as the ideal catalyst for investment from SA's private sector. There is no urgency to reintroduce the Zimbabwean dollar, says the country's minister of economic planning & deve...
THE TIP OF THE DIRT PILE
By Carol Paton
The conspirators have been exposed: "the big man", "this fellow" or "the other guy" (understood to be Thabo Mbeki); Leonard McCarthy, Bulelani Ngcuka and others by implication. These are the people who conspired to stop Zuma from be...
DROPPING FROM THE SKY
By David Furlonger
Air passenger numbers are falling faster than airlines can cut the number of available seats. Carriers around the world have reduced seating capacity by 6% this year from what it was at the beginning of 2008. Passenger volumes, howe...
NO CARE TOO GREAT
By Matebello Motloung
SA manufacturers and suppliers should brace themselves for the effects of the Consumer Protection Bill, which has reared its head again. Presented to parliament, the bill is set to be signed into law before the end of the year. It will...
