R2,25m President Jacob Zuma's salary, backdated to April 1, after a 7% increase. This is R21 000 less than if he'd accepted the recommended 8% pay rise. R2,03m
A WORLD OF EXPERIENCE
By Stephen Cranston
Fred Phaswana is the first black chairman of Standard Bank. But his appointment is not the historic break with the past that it might seem. For years, the chairmanship of Standard Bank has been a nice halfway house for CEOs on their...
BETWIXT AND BETWEEN *
By David Furlonger
The International Marketing Council of SA (IMC), the parastatal responsible for SA's international marketing and communications strategy, is in limbo. Since the dismissal of the former board by minister in the presidency Collins Cha...
THE PRAWN IDENTITY
By Zohra Mohamed
Prawns are a classic favourite on many menus, and so it's no surprise that Sooveir Rajkumar's Meatalicious (trading as the Boastful Butcher) was named Business of the Year recently, taking the SAB KickStart Enterprise Development award for his i...
BE A WEATHER FORECASTER
By Robert Quarshie
If you do not want to be caught without a brolly or have that golf date washed out, it could make sense to get your own mini-weather station. The Oregon Scientific Easy Weather Station Pro is a convenient way to keep abreast of da...
WINNERS & LOSERS
LOSER Connie van Nieuwkerk Resigned this week as financial director of Alliance Mining after being voted off the Afdawn board last month. Both firms overstated their financials. WINNER Fritz Henderson Pres...
ALL'S FARE IN THE ART WORLD
By David Furlonger
Organisers of SA's premier annual arts festival are taking precautionary measures to minimise cost escalation caused by higher airfares during next year's soccer World Cup. The 2010 Standard Bank National Arts Festival in Grahamstow...
NEW VISION AT TELKOM
By Prakash Naidoo
With the unbundling of its stake in Vodacom and the promise of good first-quarter earnings, new Telkom chairman Jeff Molobela believes his arrival as head of the board is perfectly timed to help oversee the fixed-line operator's transi...
WHAT IS A TOBIN TAX?
By Claire Bisseker
Nobel laureate James Tobin (1918-2002) invented the Tobin tax - a tax on foreign exchange transactions - to control speculative capital flows which, because of their large size and the speed with which they can switch from one economy to the ne...
REALITY CHECKPOINT
By Zohra Mohamed
One has an eerie feeling entering the Anne Frank room in the Durban Holocaust Centre, even though it is only a copy of the original in Amsterdam. Camouflaged by a bookshelf that swings open to reveal a secret annex, it is the wor...
INTELLIGENT APPROACH TO HEALTH
By Thebe Mabanga
Not many people can claim to have contributed to shaping democratic SA in fields as diverse as intelligence and public health, but Fazel Randera has done exactly that. Parliament's recommendation of Faith Radebe as new inspector-g...
COMINGS & GOINGS
King Harald V Norway's monarch and his queen pay a state visit to SA next week at the head of a delegation that includes 100 business people for bilateral discussions. Agreements in the energy sector will also be signed. =...
BIGGER ROLE WANTED
By Carol Paton
The SA Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu) is gearing up to play a more active role in the affairs of individual municipalities and to have a greater hand in policy making, following the election of new leadership at its national congress...
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
BARACK OBAMA US PRESIDENT delivering his Asian policy speech in Tokyo ...
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