LET'S TRY REWIRING
By Matthew Hill
As Eskom marches on with the biggest power expansion programme outside China and India, it is stumbling from one crisis to the next. It began with the January 2008 blackout, when SA's mines had to shut down for nearly a week. That ...

MORE OR LESS ON TRACK
By Matthew Hill
Wind the clock back 10 d in his state of the nation address how he had assembled a team of high-flying international advisers, including financier George Soros, to advise SA on privatising parastatals, including Transnet. The plan was a grand ...

HIGH MAINTENANCE
By David Furlonger
Suggestions last week that government is privatising SA Airways (SAA) "on the sly" are probably optimistic - though it would be nice if they weren't. The Democratic Alliance bases its inference on the national airline's desire to se...

WRONG SIGNALS
By Larry Claasen
If government were a parent and signal distributor Sentech its child, chances are it would be an overbearing stage mother who pushed its young sprog into activities it had no real talent for. Over the years, the communicatio...

PUSHING THE ENVELOPE
By Thebe Mabanga
The Post Office has benefited from diminished parliamentary scrutiny over the past two years as the spotlight shifted to the crisis at the SABC. It has used that period to try to stabilise itself after a few years of management and ...

THE COST OF POLITICS
By Carol Paton
The financial and management crisis that seized the SABC last year brought the board and its CEO to their knees, with the broadcaster R2bn in the red. The crisis had its roots in politics: a politically appointed and driven b...