Now that the idea of nationalisation has risen from the dead like a movie monster, we need to talk about its meaning.
Nationalisation is when the State takes ownership of assets from the private sector.
Nationalisation is not State ownership, o...
Do we sometimes overrate new technology at the expense of the old? Is there a possibility that we idealise the impact of the new to a degree that we completely overlook things that still work perfectly well?
Does Africa always need to go high-tec...
By Sanjeev Gupta
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently stated: "It is not just Wall Street or Main Street that is hurting; people with no streets are suffering too." And amid all the turbulence that has engulfed the world of high commerce and ...
It's very commendable for Cosatu to have gone to such great lengths to fight for workers' rights in the Vodacom-Vodafone deal. Cosatu filed court papers opposing the transaction in which Vodafone would acquire a 15% stake in Vodacom from Telkom for a...
South Africans are the worst kind of bipolar sufferers: put some bleeding guy with an oblong-shaped ball on a patch of grass and the entire country clings to one another like chewing gum to an economy-class table. But raise the topics of crime or pol...
A group of American bloggers will be arriving at the end of the month to create what the International Marketing Council hopes will be some very entertaining and informative web content – words, pictures, audio and video -- about South Africa. The ...
The exponential changes in production, distribution of goods across continents, dominance of the world economy over the last thirty years, collapse of beacon institutions of the capitalist world (Bear Stearns, etc) make the analysis of globalisation ...
A few months ago, at the height of the Christmas shopping season, Oxfam encouraged us Britons to give "the gift of dung" to Africa. That's right: dung. Apparently poor African farmers like nothing better at Christmas time than to receive a bucket of ...
Every time I drive through the upgraded stretch of road around the turn-off to the Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ), just before Port Elizabeth, a song floats unbidden into my head.
The Coega IDZ is a multibillion-rand industrial developmen...
When the government backed off from selling 30% of Eskom some years ago I was relieved. I knew that the wheel would turn, as it always does, and Eskom would change from being loved to being loathed, as it was in the early 1980s. It emerged a stronger...
