adminChina’s leaders to start reform summit
SINGAPORE. — China’s Communist Party leaders will enter a policy-making summit this week with the economy on an upswing, services and manufacturing surveys show. A non-manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index rose…
Bongo Maffin makes a comeback
MULTIPLE award-winning kwaito group Bongo Maffin are ready to come back with a bang after a long eight-year break from the music industry. Former member Speedy has also reunited with…
We must eat, breathe and sleep ethics
Bradwell Mhonderwa Business Ethics The prevalence of unethical business practices in the country points to the fact that our collective effort to curtail such behaviours is still very low, piecemeal…
SA mineworkers strike in second day
JOHANNESBURG. — A strike called by South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers at Northam Platinum Ltd over wages continued into a second day as the company said it has proposed…
SA approves R4bn energy projects
JOHANNESBURG. — South Africa approved R33,8 billion rand for 17 clean-energy projects in the third of five bidding rounds of a program to cut its reliance on coal. The Department…
Generation boss, SABC on collision course
GENERATIONS boss Mfundi Vundla and the SABC are on a collision course after he allegedly defied the broadcaster’s demand that he offer his cast blanket contracts containing no “punitive” clauses.…
Who is entitled to survivor’s benefit?
The families of deceased national pension scheme contributors or pensioners are entitled to a survivor’s benefit, which will either be a one-off allowance or a monthly pension. The survivor’s benefit…
It’s DStv’s premium open week
Jonathan Mbiriyamveka TV FOR most people without the premium bouquets Christmas must have come too early this year after DStv opened premium channels without charging them. Well, it is now…
Renamo bandits living in a time warp
The return to the Mozambican bush by some misguided, and rather inane, elements of Renamo obviously requires the Zimbabwean military to be on alert, as Defence Minister Sydney Sekeramayi, last…
Forgetting the British empire’s holocaust
George Monbiot IN his book Late Victorian Holocausts, published in 2001, Mike Davis tells the story of famines that killed between 12 and 29 million Indians. These people were, he…