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TELKOM 'S monopoly over landline communications may officially be over, but its continued control of the "last mile" of copper leading to most customers' homes will remain a stumbling block to affordable internet access in SA for some time to come.
WHAT does one make of the bizarre argument between the South African Communist Party's (SACP's) deputy general secretary, Jeremy Cronin, and the African National Congress Youth League's leader, Julius Malema, about nationalisation?
IN INDIA, farmers pump water from as far as 500m underground to irrigate their crops. It's a reflection of the parlous state of India's water infrastructure, which has been allowed to run down over the past few decades. Pumping the water up from the aquifer is highly energy intensive, using something like a third of the electricity India generates.
THE settlement agreement between former national director of public prosecutions (NDPP) Vusi Pikoli and the government makes for fascinating reading.
SO NOW we know what Telkom looks like shorn of its high-growth, high-earning cellphone operation, Vodacom: pretty sad. First-half profit is down nearly 40% and despite the fact that this decline was actually better than the forecast range, the market still thumped the share.
ALMOST three years have passed since I reviewed Coronation Fund Managers ( Coronat ). The review then appeared in a Forecast Factory column, the predecessor to the Private Investor column
TODAY, the world is faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in everyone's thinking so that humanity stops threatening its life-supporting system called climate.
IN Zimbabwe the rainy season, which this year has already begun in earnest, does not only bring the prospects of bountiful food harvests -- or lack of them -- when the season ends in three months' time.
THOSE who believe that Zimbabwe is in so much democratic trouble that the country now epitomises a level of vulgarity and apologetics for mass suffering and human rights abuses that any respectable democracy in the West could never possibly reach might need to be disabused of such illusions when consideration is taken over the human rights record of the United States of America.
THE snubbing of the recent United Nations Food Summit in Rome by the developed world was a sign of global apartheid that is being pursued by the developed world against their developing world counterparts.
So, where does Nelson Mandela reckon he'll end up when the moment we all dread comes and he leaves this life?
SABMILLER 's two main competitors in Nigeria, Guinness and Heineken, make nearly as much in that market as SA's brewing giant makes in 24 other African countries, excluding SA.
THE summary expulsion of three student leaders -- Vivid Gwede, Samson Nxumalo and Kurayi Hoyi, and the fateful, two-year suspension of six other student activists namely, Sheunesu Nyoni, Power Mabhoyi, Edius Mucheuka, Kudakwashe Maguchu, Nyasha Nyakura and Emmanuel Munyenyiwa, by the National University of Science and Technology administration is a classical instance of just addressing the ...
The postponement of the 2010 budget presentation to the National Assembly by President Umaru Yar'Adua over disagreement on the venue by the Senate and House of Representatives is unfortunate and wholly unacceptable.
It is refreshing to learn that some top leaders do not wish to comment on the draft constitution to avoid influencing the outcome of the debate before Kenyans have made up their own minds.
Cabinet minister Beth Mugo's confirmation that the nine deaths at Kamiti Maximum Prison were caused by cholera is significant in two ways.
Recently, a visit to Broadhurst Police Station revealed what could be a daily occurrence at many other police stations.
A year ago, President Kibaki accented to the Anti Counterfeits Act as Kenya's manufacturing sector buckled under the weight of fake and cheaply priced goods, especially from Asia.
It has been a long time since we last discuss issues of national concern that need your personal, direct intervention. The reason has been simply this: we thought to give you time to digest and take actions on those issues that we already threw at your feet. We thought you might have had your hands full and in a case of a spill, some issues may not get the kind of attention they deserve. Now we ...
Its exactly 10 years since the East African Community(EAC) was revived. Last Friday all roads led to Arusha for the anniversary and Summit.
Last Wednesday, the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC) disseminated the findings of its study titled Monitoring Media Reportage on Corruption. The study was conducted by the astute media lecturer, Dr Audrey S. Gadzekpo, Director, School of Communication, University of Ghana, Legon.
The deaths of four people at a small-scale gold mine in Tarime District points to a worrying trend that is becoming all too familiar.
"Namibia Highly Corrupt" screamed a newspaper headline in one of the local dailies this week, prompting many Namibians to wonder whether this is the Namibia they know or another country.
FOLLOWING the incident at Outapi, panic buttons are being pressed. The impression that is being created is that the entire country is engulfed by a fireball of political violence.
THE public media is caught up in crossfire. Having failed to politically subdue their opponents in government, opposition parties are turning their blazing guns on the public media.
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