SEEDY DEALS EXPOSED
By Shannon Sherry
Agricultural processing giant Senwes is considering its options, after failing in the appeal court to overturn a competition tribunal finding of anti competitive conduct in its grain storage business. Group legal adviser Elma...

GET THE POLITICS RIGHT
By Claire Bisseker
Has the trade liberalisation that SA embarked on in the 1990s transformed production and exports away from mining and other commodities? The department of trade & industry (DTI) makes no bones about its belief that this has not happene...

BATTLE OVER, WAR GOES ON:
By Thebe Mabanga
Now that the question of who will head the National Planning Commission (NPC) has been settled, a fresh battle, one hopes is based on ideas rather than personalities, has to be waged over the powers and composition of the commission. Last week, a...

ROOM AT THE INN
By Thebe Mabanga
Owners of accommodation establishments will be able to cash in on next year's soccer World Cup, even if their establishments are not graded. Parliament's portfolio committee on tourism was briefed last Friday on progress made to acc...

PLAYING POLITICS
By Thebe Mabanga
The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), the body formed through the merger of the Umsobomvu Youth Fund and the Youth Commission, appears to have made little attempt to extricate itself from party politics. And it's asking for R1b...

CREATIVE TROIKA
By Matebello Motloung
It's been described as one of the best advertisements ever - the 2004 SABC1 "Yamampela" TV commercial that showed the roles of black and white South Africans being reversed. And now the multiple award-winning duo behind it, Festus M...

UNPLUGGED FOR TOO LONG
By Matebello Motloung
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) is in a race to clean up its house before it appears again before the parliamentary communications portfolio committee in three months' time. Icasa reports to parliament twice ...