Recently added articles from The Sunday Independent (South Africa):
SA's 2009 growth forecast slashed.(Business Report Weekend)
Jun 28, 2009 ... BYLINE: Wiseman Khuzwayo But the bank forecast growth of 2.6 percent next year and 4.1 percent in 2011 as weak financial conditions and excess capacity in many sectors mitigate against a sharp rebound in either investment or consumption. In its February budget ...
Lobster industry feels the pinch of recession.(Business Report Weekend)
Jun 28, 2009 ... While sales to customers in Europe have withered, about 150 of the orange crustaceans have been stored in the container for so long that they're eating each other, says Contreras, 33, tossing an empty shell into the sea. "I've been fishing here for 65 years and I've never seen ...
Only swine in sight are bankers - Air Asia boss.(Business Report Weekend)
Jun 28, 2009 ... Southeast Asia needs more entrepreneurs like him if it's going to thrive, and I want Fernandes to succeed. So it was with a tinge of sadness that I read his recent comments about how difficult it still is to borrow money. His words explain better than anything why the global ...
OECD economies look to weak recovery.(Business Report Weekend)
Jun 28, 2009 ... The slowdown in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) economies is reaching the bottom after the deepest decline in more than 60 years, says the grouping's latest Economic Outlook. But it warns recovery is likely to be weak and fragile, and the ...
Management aspect of empowerment is crucial.(Business Report Weekend)
Jun 28, 2009 ... The firms whose shareholders are sellers sometimes do so without really wanting to. It would be interesting to put themselves in the shoes of prospective buyers who have not enough capital, who have to contend with terms that are hard to meet, who have to go into a transaction ...
We'll treat your money as if it were ours.(Business Report Weekend)
Jun 28, 2009 ... Any resemblance to a chart of how the Standard & Poor's 500 index has fared so far this year is coincidental, although the more discerning among you may glean some insight into our current market strategy by laying one on top of the other and holding them up to the light. Transparency is a ...
More brickbats than bouquets for interest rate decision.(Business Report Weekend)
Jun 28, 2009 ... BYLINE: Wiseman Khuzwayo The decision by the monetary policy committee (MPC) of the SA Reserve Bank to keep the repo rate on hold at 7.5 percent has been met with more brickbats than bouquets. The decision came on the eve of the announcement that the price of petrol ...
Germany to market itself at World Cup.(Business Report Weekend)
Jun 28, 2009 ... BYLINE: Donwald Pressly Germany, which hosted the 2006 World Cup, is gearing up to showcase itself as the "land of ideas" during next year's World Cup in South Africa when the German School in Parktown, Johannesburg, will be used as a base to welcome visitors and also for South ...
Tea estate brews fresh hope in Limpopo.(Business Report Weekend)
Jun 28, 2009 ... BYLINE: Lucky Biyase The resuscitation of the Thsivashe Tea Estate in the Vhembe district in Limpopo has revived hope in this impoverished community, which was wrecked by the disinvestment of British company Sapekoe in 2004. Local villagers, whose only form of ...
Medvedev closes Africa tour with oil co-operation pledge.(Business Report Weekend)
Jun 28, 2009 ... BYLINE: Maria Kolesnikova Russian President Dmitry Medvedev concluded a four-day, four-country African trip in Angola, a member of Opec, the organisation of petroleum exporting countries, where he held talks on closer co-ordination of oil policy. Russian co-operation ...
Nigerian joint venture hailed.(Business Report Weekend)
Jun 28, 2009 ... Nigeria's joint venture with OAO Gazprom would help boost the its earnings from natural gas, said Mohammed Barkindo, the chief executive of Nigerian National Petroleum. Gazprom, Russia's gas export monopoly, on Wednesday signed an agreement in the capital, Abuja, to form a firm ...
Pamodzi mine needs R100m, says Harmony.(Business Report Weekend)
Jun 28, 2009 ... BYLINE: Carli Lourens Harmony Gold, named the preferred bidder for Pamodzi Gold's Free State assets this week, might spend about R100 million in the first year to restart production, Bob Atkinson, Harmony's chief operating officer said on Friday. That's "the initial ...
Got a headache? Get on your bike; Choosing the right exercise can cure a plethora of health problems/from back pain to headaches... and even gum disease.(Dispatches)
Jun 28, 2009 ... WE'RE ALWAYS being told that regular exercise is the best way to improve our health and stave off obesity. But did you know that specific types of exercise can help to reduce the symptoms of many common ailments? Here we review the latest evidence to find out how you can ease ...
The brilliance of Brubeck, a pianist par excellence.(Life)
Jun 28, 2009 ... THE fourth and penultimate Sony's Columbia Classic Jazz review today features Dave Brubeck. The response to the competitions has been immense and I would like to thank the readers who have responded. I have three albums to give away today: Brubeck Plays Brubeck, Jazz ...
SA to host World Summit on Arts and Culture.(Life)
Jun 28, 2009 ... BYLINE: Mary Corrigall South Africa will host the 4th World Summit on Arts and Culture at Museum Africa in Johannesburg. With as many as 400 delegates from over 70 countries expected to attend, it is anticipated that arts agencies and artists in the country will ...
SA helps lead charge for greener, cleaner world ahead of Copenhagen pact.(Dispatches)
Jun 28, 2009 ... BYLINE: Eleanor Momberg SOUTH Africa is hopeful that a post-2012 greenhouse gas reduction target agreement will be concluded by the end of the year. This is despite doubt expressed by the UN's top climate official in Bonn last week about the prospects for completing ...
US seeks new ways to rebuild in Afghanistan; Billions of dollars have been wasted on white-elephant projects based on misguided ideas - so now the focus is shifting to agriculture, writes Rajiv Chandrasekaran.(Dispatches)
Jun 28, 2009 ... THE idea to transform a vacant tract near the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif into a commercial farm, with kilometres of strawberry fields and thousands of cashmere goats, began with an entreaty from former US president George Bush to the billionaire chairman of Dole Foods at a 2006 ...
Mexican dentists now fill only time.(Dispatches)
Jun 28, 2009 ... BYLINE: William Booth BEFORE the police chief here sought political asylum in the US, after his deputies had all run away because of the kidnappings and killings, Palomas, Mexico was a nice little town to get your teeth cleaned. People drove 580km from Phoenix, ...
Gaudy art as amusing and alluring as ever; Switching to painting has helped facilitate a new direction for these rebel artists.(Life)
Jun 28, 2009 ... IT ALWAYS seemed that Avant Car Guard's flippant and irreverent brand of art had a sell-by-date. It is expected for young peripheral artists to challenge the pretensions of an art world they are yet to be embraced by; it's a reflexive response that softens the blow of anonymity. Who would ...
We are not amused with clunking dialogue, poor editing and captions.(Life)
Jun 28, 2009 ... WHEN a film opens with a minute of captions filling in the historical context, followed by several more minutes of montage and voice-over filling in yet more historical context, that usually means it's a blockbuster about warring vampires and werewolves. But The Young Victoria ...