GOVERNMENT'S LIMITS
By Prakash Naidoo
What triggered the latest protests? I think people feel we have not moved fast enough in addressing their concerns. Is this true? A lot has been done, but the pace can be improved. However, a lot of the issues a...

GREECE DEBT PROBLEM
By Evan Pickworth
Why is Greece's debt our problem? If Greece defaults, the euro is likely to be smacked and there could be global contagion, as was the case with Argentina's default. The rand would come under pressure, given SA's eurozone economic link...

SAFE PAIR OF HANDS
By Stephen Cranston
Increasingly, even when companies carry out long and expensive external searches, they end up with a candidate in-house. Absa has promoted its head of risk David Hodnett to group finance director. They took more than five months to ma...

WINNERS & LOSERS

WINNER Vuyisa Nkonyeni TisoGroup, of which he is director, has lifted its stake in listed telecom supplier ACTowers to 31,9%, making it the largest shareholder, and well positioned to capitalise on the fast growing African cellu...

HOUSING IN NUMBERS
By Razina Munshi
R1bn is the size of a new housing fund, an incentive for the private sector to help meet the demand for housing, announced by President Jacob Zuma in his state of the nation speech. . .

DEPLOYMENT PAYBACK TIME
By Carol Paton
Municipal councillors who appoint pals or party hacks without basic qualifications as municipal managers will soon be forced to pay back the money that has been wasted on the salaries of unqualified managers from their own pockets. ...

LONG TALK TO FREEDOM
By Prakash Naidoo
Twenty years after the SABC's disastrous live broadcast of Nelson Mandela's release from prison, the voice behind the microphone doing the commentary that day, Clarence Keyter, says the criticism and derision he faced is still painful ...

COMINGS & GOINGS

Pauline Hanson Australia's anti-immigration party chief, who said the country was in danger of being swamped by Asians, has had enough of Down Under po litics. She is winding up her party and emigrating to Britain. E...

ZIM CALLING
By Evan Pickworth
Zimbabwe could become an attractive telecom investment destination in the next five years. Though the country's not yet in a position to take full advantage of information communications technology - it's ranked near the bottom of t...

IN THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR
By Kate Thompson
The Iomega ScreenPlay Director is essentially a media player, a gadget to store and view various media files through your television. This in itself is not groundbreaking, but the extra details make it quite a useful addition to a home...

DEAD GIVEAWAY
By David Furlonger
So... you've done the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame, a Seine cruise and the other routine Parisian tourist sights. Maybe even the Moulin Rouge. And you still want to see more. What next? How about the cemeteries? No, I'm no...

IMAGE HANDLER
By Matebello Motloung
Investment guru Warren Buffett once said: "If you lose dollars for the firm, I will be understanding . . . If you lose reputation for the firm, I will be ruthless." Advising companies on how to build and preserve their reputation is what Jo'burg-...

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI IFP president in the debate on the state of the nation address ...