RECORD DAMAGES CLAIMS
By Rob Rose
Claims for damages against the Post Office have ballooned to almost R2bn, making the state-owned enterprise the subject of some of the largest claims in SA. Last week came out on the wrong end of two legal skirmishes. The first is ...

WINNERS & LOSERS

LOSER Simon Sussman CEO of Woolworths, which lost its 36th place in the JSE's Top 40 index to construction firm Aveng, though he and other retailers are not to blame that construction companies are coining it while they aren't. ...

DIGITAL MUSIC
By Duncan McLeod
What is online music? It is any music that is made available on the Internet, either for download from an online shop such as Apple's iTunes Music Store, from a Web server of some kind, or through a peer-to-peer file-sharing system. Online mus...

AWAY FROM TARNISHED TIGER
By Rob Rose
Robbie Williams (the veteran SA company director, not the fluffy UK pop singer) may not have escaped the limelight entirely, but he'll be thanking all the gods of price-fixing that he retired as chairman of Tiger Brands nearly two year...

MOLOKO UNDER FIRE

Moyo's departure was widely seen as a setback for transformation. What do you think? The departure of competent black executives and specialists understandably creates despondence about transformation in instances where the reasons for ...

COMINGS & GOINGS

Robbie Lazare Named as one of three AngloGold Ashanti executive vice-presidents. As part of the company's new decentralised regional operating structures, VPs are now in charge of Africa, Australia and the Americas. ...

A LAPTOP IN YOUR PHONE
By Duncan McLeod
HTC's follow-up to the TyTN smartphone, the appropriately named TyTN II, packs a punch. The Windows Mobile 6 Professional-based machine has everything you'd expect in a top-end phone - including a top-end price. The 190 g device has a...

THE TOWNSHIP MBA
By Jacqui Pile
A bright idea by former primary school teacher Megan Knight has led to thousands of low-income earners being taught financial skills. Knight developed financial learning materials for adults when she realised how little poor people knew ...

UMHLANGA ROCKS!
By Peta Lee
It's become a Mecca for local and overseas visitors and, with its choice of luxury accommodation, top restaurants, superb shops and fabulous beaches, it's hardly surprising. Umhlanga and surrounds is fast becoming the new Durban C...

HOLIDAY TRAVEL IN NUMBERS
By Larry Claasen
1 December is the day the Shosholoza Meyl train service considers the start of the holiday season. 446 is the number of additional trains that will be run over the festive period. 95% is the capacity the Shosholoza Meyl...

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"It's far less damaging to the economy to create a short-term fiscal problem, which we would, than to try to fix the prices of homes or interest rates. If you do that, it'll drag this process out indefinitely" - ALAN GREENSPAN, f...