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Zimbabwe
Category: Articles/Politics
... workers at the Mugabe family’s Gushungo dairy farm who are said to earn an average US$40 per month, recently accused their employer of unfair dismissal, hostile working conditions and sending 50 workers ...Wednesday, 08 September 2010 -
Beyond the strike
Category: Articles/Politics
... members even receiving death threats should they return to work. In a strike that, for most observers, may seem to have produced only losers on all sides, there has been far more at stake at the political ...Monday, 06 September 2010 -
Worth a read?
Category: Articles/Other
... far less star-struck in its evaluation of the founders and the inner workings of the business. The second part of the book is newer and more enlightening. Auletta investigates the challenges Google faces ...Monday, 06 September 2010 -
Scorecard of war
Category: Articles/Politics
... this year puts the total cost as at least $3 trillion; The war in Iraq is far from over and it is highly unlikely that the 50 000 troops that are, for now, staying behind in an “advise and assist” ...Monday, 06 September 2010 -
Crowning glory
Category: Articles/Leading Ladies
... she says. Instead, she leaves that to others and concentrates on visiting, mentoring and encouraging the hairdresser-cum-entrepreneurs who use her products, often in far-flung townships and rural communities. ...Monday, 06 September 2010 -
South Africa’s humanitarian lodestar
Category: Articles/Leading Ladies
... development, environment, social development, social welfare, criminal justice, governance, land reform, housing, arts and culture and HIV/Aids. Kadalie’s gaze is intense when she expands on the excellent ...Monday, 06 September 2010 -
Civil Service Strike
Category: Articles/Politics
... the quality of education is already seriously suspect. “The impact of this strike may affect the entire generation as the damage far outweighs the gains made by public servants (and) in particular the ...Monday, 06 September 2010 -
Final word
Category: Articles/Other
... to the brim (‘up to your neck with…’), but given a slant by the double meaning of the word ‘gat’.” This comes very close to the truth. Even to this day on many farms a big hole is dug outside smelling ...Friday, 03 September 2010 -
Land grab
Category: Articles/Other
... African farmers. This land, according to the report, is to be used “to grow staple food crops for export without any percentage to remain in Congo”. “Just as African countries have seen fossil fuels ...Friday, 03 September 2010 -
Food security
Category: Articles/Environment
... farmers can turn things round, and what questions and answers you have when facing the huge challenges of maintaining and increasing Africa's food production? One week from now, 200 agricultural experts ...Friday, 03 September 2010 -
Overlooking Public-Private partnerships
Category: Articles/Leaders on Leadership
... the same time, conducting successful partnerships with the private sector is far from easy. It requires planning, negotiating, implementing and monitoring complex long-term projects that involve a multitude ...Wednesday, 01 September 2010 -
Tri-Nations watch
Category: Articles/Sport
... were not that far behind New Zealand in terms of their styles and game-plans. Yet, one has to beg to differ. The experienced and settled All Blacks would probably have buried South Africa if they were ...Tuesday, 31 August 2010 -
Cricket scandal
Category: Articles/Sport
... agreed moments during the test. He claimed to the paper to have up to seven players from the side working for him, though so far only four - Butt, Asif, Amir and Kamran Akmal - have been named. Majeed ...Tuesday, 31 August 2010 -
Privatising war
Category: Articles/Politics
Helping out – also to hide Modern warfare has become a major enterprise – nor only for nations, but also for major corporations who supply technology and specialised skills. It has not only made ...Friday, 27 August 2010 -
Land reform
Category: Articles/Politics
... for approval, proposes radical changes to the way land is owned in South Africa. One of its proposals holds that government will decide when farmers own “too much land” for a particular type of farming ...Thursday, 26 August 2010 -
The Fresher King
Category: Articles/Leaders on Leadership
Brian Coppin goes from cashier to CEO I have always wondered who the clever souls behind the Fruit & Veg City stores were, since I had once dabbled in a far less onerous aspect of retail and had ...Thursday, 26 August 2010 -
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Category: Articles/Environment
... killed in these few months. So far, 214 deaths have been accounted for, but the total number is expected to be much higher. A recent discovery of skeletons in May this year, believed to be of victims ...Thursday, 26 August 2010 -
Media freedom
Category: Articles/Politics
... as a tool to be tightly controlled by the state and used as far as possible to its own advantage. Therefore, while the media’s recent relentless reporting of ANC corruption, governance breakdown and ...Tuesday, 24 August 2010 -
Final word
Category: Articles/Other
... article was, as far as is known first used in print in an 1760 edition of The London Magazine. There are those who still believe that we can make the stadiums pay their way. But then, maybe pigs do fly! ...Monday, 23 August 2010 -
Robben Island to Wall Street
Category: Articles/Leaders on Leadership
... notorious prison farm called Leeuwkop Maximum Security Prison. What followed was a particularly harrowing experience for Magomola and his fellow prisoners, and also for those reading about this in his ...Monday, 23 August 2010
