THE SLOW POLITICAL DEATH OF JACOB ZUMA
It must be hoped that the rape charge against Jacob Zuma will let in a ray of light through the descending murk of sleaze and innuendo that has overtaken public life. His guilt or innocence - as in his corruption case - is properly a matter for the...
ANOTHER WEEK
AT HOME The national prosecuting authority charges Jacob Zuma with rape. The constitutional court gives gover...
PAYING PIPERS WHO PLAY THE RIGHT TUNE
Finance minister Trevor Manuel has a refreshing candour when it comes to the problems of government - especially in portfolios that are not his direct responsibility. In recent months he has repeatedly pointed out that all government's best-laid pl...
EDITOR'S NOTE
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So Roland Schoeman, SA's Olympic gold medallist, has turned down an audacious offer to swim for Qatar, a nondescript yet fabulously rich little kingdom in the middle of the desert. It must have been an excruciatingly difficult decision to turn down s...
THE STATE WE'RE IN
By Jamie Carr
INFERIOR DECORATING AND THE ART OF DICTATION The list of thanks due to the dearly beloved over the years is enormous, but little could be more important than getting the whole jamboree off on the right foot. I...
WHY SA'S RUGBY BID WAS DOOMED
South African Rugby, the SA sports ministry and the SA Bid Company failed to look at SA's 2011 rugby World Cup bid from a strategic perspective. It was done from a simplistic and emotional platform - that one needs to grow the g...
FOREX CLARITY, PLEASE
I refer to the article titled "Breaking the chains of a siege economy" (Editorials November 18), which contains the phrase ". . . and individuals can take no more than R750 000/year out of the country". This implies it is po...
GO FOR A FLAT TAX
South African Revenue Service commissioner Pravin Gordhan has stated that the tax gap in SA is estimated to be R20bn-R40bn/year. To combat this evasion of tax, he and the minister of finance seek to add more complexity to our a...
WASHROOM CHANNEL
Afrilink Media Network wishes to correct an error in your story on Primedia (Companies November 18). The company won the airports washroom contract in 2003. Fortunately for advertisers, and ultimately consumers, Afrilink is an ...
DRUCKER'S INFLUENCE
Management guru Peter Drucker, who died last month aged 95, lived through both world wars and the wisdom he acquired was impeccable. What struck me about The Effective Executive, which Drucker published in the early post Wor...
WORLD WAR 2 CANON
In his review of Der Untergang (Arts & Leisure November 11) Peter Wilhelm considers the "controversial" aspects of the film. Much of the World War 2 canon is known to be lopsided, subjective or false. The "nobl...
UPLIFT THE POOR
I find it bewildering and feel like I am watching the Titanic heading into dangerous waters. Just one example of concern is the remuneration of directors (Cover Story November 11). We are talking about millions of rand p...
CRICKET AND GAMBLING
May I briefly add to Clive M Kiln's view on where the responsibility for the Hansie Cronje saga in India lies (Letters November 25)? Kiln is close to the truth when he says that the United Cricket Board should sort itself ou...
THE BIGGER PICTURE
The content of your November 11 Editor's Note is superb. Since the news of what occurred during the 1990s' Mont Fleur Scenarios filtered into the public domain, I have been watching how the "big picture" strategic wisdom flowin...
TRADES IN TIME
I refer to Chris Gilmour's article "Quicker on the Draw" (Focus September 30). It mentions that the JSE's settlement cycle has gone from seven days to five, which is correct. But what is not is that it is on T+3 on purchases...
