In a dramatic change of its image in the global fight against the spread of HIV/Aids from the days of denialism under the Mbeki administration, South Africa delivered one of the shining rays of hope at the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna last week. The conference, however,... Full Article |
 Commendable target can become a trap Emerging from their two-day lekgotla last week, President Jacob Zuma and his Cabinet have adopted a new programme of action, setting a number of new performance... Full Article | |
 Leader’s Angle: Investment perspectives in an uncertain world Professor Prieur du Plessis, professor extraordinaire at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB), will be sharing his perspectives at an event entitled: Leader’s... Full Article | |
 Where to now, De Villiers? The embattled Springbok team and its management are currently trying to survive as all-comers hurl verbal missiles at them. It would seem that some tough decisions and... Full Article | |
 Onslaught symptomatic of regime under siege A storm of hostile rhetoric, often displaying a complete lack of understanding of the workings of democratic processes, seems to be gathering momentum in the African... Full Article | |
 Strategy on Iran threatens world peace The decision by the United States to up-yours the United Nations by implementing unilateral and, in terms of international law, suspect sanctions against Iran over dubious... Full Article | |
 Living in a multipolar world Two decades ago, in the early 1990s, when the erstwhile Eastern Block under Soviet dominance was disintegrating, all indications were - and analysts assessed - that the... Full Article |
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Media Release RBS offers emergency E9 service free to clients Risk Benefit Solutions (RBS) announced on Monday, 19 July, it is making the Emergency 9 (E9) service - an intelligent location, information and distress...
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Leadership summit The world’s leading business thinkers at the 2010 Leadership Summit Discovery Invest will once again bring to South Africa some of the world’s most impressive business minds, to share their secrets...
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Milpark Business School new short course Business and life coaching short course Milpark Business School is proud to announce the launch of a new Business and Life Coaching short course at our Melville Campus from early August. The course...
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Neo Africa Secure Solution Credit card fraud has been solved The Neo Africa Secure Solution, a world-first combination of pre-paid travel cards, mobile phones and services, is to offer enhanced safety and convenience services...
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Milpark Business School Milpark Business School delivering Management Development Programme The BANKSETA appointed Milpark Business School (MBS) as the provider to design, develop and implement a programme to equip the junior...
Alain Rolland is currently public enemy number one of anyone displaying any form of Springbok memorabilia. But perhaps the Sydney Morning Herald came close to... Full Article |
International analysts and investors are increasingly viewing South Africa’s once world-leading mining sector – already suffering from a variety of serious pressures – in... Full Article | ||
Worth a read is not your ordinary book review; it is a meta-review providing an overview of the opinions contained in a variety of book reviews published in... Full Article |
The African Union (AU) Summit that began in Kampala, Uganda on 19 July will arguably be one of the organisation’s most important meetings in a long... Full Article | ||
“A manager's only responsibility was to pursue the long-term profitability of a business and if that was done, then executives should be rewarded,” according to a South African... Full Article |
“The introduction and implementation of new, revolutionary (alternative) energy sources will change the course of man everywhere on the planet. This power source will rank with fire, the... Full Article | ||
The reintroduction of the Protection of Information Bill to parliament is to certain older news hounds like a replay of a nightmare of some of the darkest... Full Article |
Harvard professor and prolific author Niall Ferguson opened the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival on 12 July with a stark warning about the increasing prospect of the American... Full Article | ||
A trade agreement currently under negotiation between India and the European Union poses a threat to affordable essential medicine still under patents and antiretrovirals (ARVs) for HIV/Aids... Full Article |
With the latest attracts on foreigners, particularly traders, and threats or danger of widespread xenophobic violence perpetrated by South Africans against other Africans from various nationalities,... Full Article | ||
An edition of our hard-copy sister publication, Leadership magazine, has been voted best in the world in a particular category of the annual TABBIE awards. The... Full Article |
Last week, we argued that there seems to be a convergence of evidence on a number of fronts in the existence of modern man, indicating that we... Full Article | ||
According to news reports, Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa said the committee of ministers appointed to head off the threat of renewed xenophobia is seeking... Full Article |
Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard would have looked on in anguish on Sunday evening. It was not the mere fact that the... Full Article | ||
The last cheers had hardly died down at Soccer City, when it was back to business as usual in South Africa. Despite government ministers dismissing warnings... Full Article |
New Zealand began its Tri-Nations campaign with a bang, and the Springboks theirs with a whimper. The Green and Gold imploded badly as the All Blacks raced... Full Article | ||
We have to disappoint those of our readers whose imagination took them along interesting and exotic paths after last week’s column left them to... Full Article |
There are a few moments during a crisis when a person’s façade breaks away and admissions of cold and brutal truth are made. Such an occurrence happened... Full Article |
