TAKE OUT THE HUMANS
By Larry Claasen
The rigging of tenders could become a thing of the past if Werner Coetzee's innovation catches on. The CEO and founder of Sentigol has developed software that eliminates the loopholes that allow for the rigging of tender contracts. ...

EARTHQUAKE IN CHILE
By Razina Munshi
How serious was the earthquake in Chile? The quake measured 8,8 on the Richter scale, making it one of the most powerful in a century, and worse than the 7-magnitude convulsion that hit Haiti in January. It caused a tsunami which engul...

THE PRICE OF FAILURE
By David Furlonger
Illiteracy costs SA up to R550bn annually in potential gross domestic product, says a report by four Stellenbosch University academics. Accurately measuring the impact of illiteracy is difficult because it has so many definitions, ...

WINNERS & LOSERS

WINNER Leonard Chuene The former Athletics SA boss salvaged something from his dismal tenure - a Mercedes-Benz for just R1. It would be good to know how a lifestyle audit would treat this one. LOSER Akio Toyoda...

IT'S PEOPLE THAT MAKE IT
By Matebello Motloung
When Alan Cowley started Sybase SA in 1991, the information technology industry was going through a shift from centralised computing to other forms of IT. Two decades later, this is what Sybase has become known for - specialised IT solution...

COMINGS & GOINGS

David Noko Steps down as MD of De Beers Consolidated Mines, the group's local mining entity. He has been with the company for eight years and served four as its MD. He will leave at the end of the month. Ian Cockerill ...

LESS FEAR, MORE GREED
By Evan Pickworth
Moves towards a more bullish investment stance in SA are tentative at best. The levels of fear, according to the stock exchange's SA volatility index (Savi), may have receded in line with improved economic sentiment this year, but ...

BOTTLE BATTLE SETTLED
By Sasha Planting
SABMiller CEO Graham Mackay is not known for walking away from a battle - unless it suits him to do so. So the fact that SABMiller and Diageo have "amicably" settled a dispute between their subsidiaries in Tanzania suggests that it...

THE GAMING'S ON
By Shannon Sherry
The Fifa World Cup in SA will be the biggest international gambling event to have taken place so far, says Gibraltar-based bookmaker Victor Chandler. Chandler, who currently takes bets in 140 countries, is launching an online bettin...

ITUNES IN NUMBERS
By Larry Claasen
2001 Apple releases the first version of its music player, iTunes. 2003 Apple starts selling music through its iTunes Music Store website.

READY FOR WAR STORIES
By Larry Claasen
Capetonians were generally ambivalent about the need to build a shiny new stadium in Green Point especially for the soccer World Cup. Many pointed out that the city already has a perfectly adequate stadium in Newlands. They were ...

EYE IN THE SKY
By Kate Thompson
The Trackstick Mini is a GPS tracker for your car that allows you to record your journeys in great detail. The small transmitter communicates with satellites to document a vehicle's position, speed and direction, as often as every f...

TEMPLETON'S GURU ON A NEW FRONTIER
By Stephen Cranston
How expensive are emerging markets shares right now? We are close to the midrange in both price:earnings ratios and in price-to-book. It is hard to find great bargains. Turkey is an exception as there have been some arrests of prom...

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

BOBBY GODSELL Business Leadership SA's chairman added his voice to the calls for lifestyle audits of top politicians. He volunteered to undergo one himself. The call for audits, first sounded by union federation Cosatu general secretary Zw...