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By Monde Nkosi
Winston Churchill once claimed that all men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. It would appear that we, as a country, are not wise.
As far back as 2005 during a strike by the SA Commercial, Catering and A... |
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Views: 1517 | 38 Comments » | posted on Friday, August 27th, 2010 | Tags: CEO, Eskom, SAA, salary, strike
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Mike Baillie
If you are fat, most people would say you should probably go on diet. Cut down on what's causing your love handles and that bloated beer belly. The same thinking, it seems, applies to climate change: having gorged ourselves on the bad stuff -- fossil... |
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Views: 357 | 7 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 | Tags: carbon emissions, climate change, complexity, consumption, environment, fossil fuel, solutions
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Gavin Foster
It's always struck me as rather odd the way ANC politicians and public servants seem obsessed with security. Surely, as democratically elected representatives of the people they should feel free to walk in the streets without let or hindrance? The mu... |
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Views: 1308 | 23 Comments » | posted on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 | Tags: ANC, bodyguards, Mandela, politicians, self importance, VIP, Zindzi
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Mandy de Waal
Zuma's performance agreements with government ministers are a toothless tiger. What's needed to drive performance and service delivery is bite.
Economist Mike Schüssler certainly didn't mince his words when he spoke at the 9th UASA South ... |
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Views: 984 | 20 Comments » | posted on Friday, July 2nd, 2010 | Tags: Africa, bad service, corruption, economy, employment, excess, government, Jacob Zuma, jobs, Mike Schüssler, pay for performance, performance, politicians, politics, recession, salaries, service delivery, South Africa, unemployment, variable pay
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Reg Rumney
For the sake of all that's sensible, can we stop reporting that South Africa has the greatest level of inequality in the world?
It has become South Africa's biggest cliché, and it crops up in many stories written about the country, even one as b... |
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Views: 1616 | 53 Comments » | posted on Monday, June 28th, 2010 | Tags: Africa, economy, equality, Gini coefficient, income, inequality, poor, poverty, press, South Africa, South African, unemployment, Zimbabwe
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Mike Baillie
Recently a lot of my writing has focused on the issue of externalities, and how they contribute to a corporation's profitability. What I've neglected is the flip side: that just as corporations should pay the full costs of their activities, so should... |
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Views: 545 | 22 Comments » | posted on Thursday, June 17th, 2010 | Tags: BP, business, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, consumers, consumption, corporations, ecosystem, environment, externalities, profit
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Mike Baillie
While BP is spending in the region of $400 million fumbling around in its oil spill, it's also spending a whopping $50 million trying to convince us that it is in fact cleaning up. Part of that PR budget has gone to Google, where BP strateg... |
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Views: 838 | 41 Comments » | posted on Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 | Tags: activist, BP, capitalism, corporations, ecology, environment, fair trade, Google, oil spill
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Eve Dmochowska
Sporadically, I am invited to speak at various conferences. Last week, for instance, I was invited to speak at one focussing on private equity in Africa. I assume it is because I founded Crowdfund.
I would have been a part of a panel, although I ... |
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Views: 1361 | 25 Comments » | posted on Thursday, May 27th, 2010 | Tags: business, conference, money
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Mike Baillie
By now I'm sure you've seen the video clip: an office employee, bored stiff at work, decides to "have a break, have a KitKat" -- only those aren't slender fingers of dark chocolate and biscuit he's snacking on, but orangutan fingers, and just look at... |
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Views: 1398 | 25 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 | Tags: activism, chocolate, consumers, corporations, Greenpeace, Nestle, Nike, social media
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Rudi Cronje
An expression we've all heard before, I would think. Justified, as well. With anything decent, there is expectancy for something more, something healthier, somewhat more intuitive and at the end of the day just a plain bigger kick in the balls.
Le... |
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Views: 449 | 4 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 | Tags: album, Ashtray Electric, music, song
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