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Fancy yourself as a company director? Huge significance for BEE scorecards

No this is not my own work.  It was written by Micel Schnehage and posted on Moneyweb's site.  But I have edited it liberally and highlighted all the things that can happen to...

Massmart-Walmart Competition Tribunal hearing day one (9 May 2011)

“Ultimately, Massmart’s procurement philosophy is driven by consumer choice. Massmart procures products from suppliers because consumers buy those products from Massmart,” his witness statement read...

Zimbabwe defends BEE plan (we come in pieces)

Mujuru defends BEE plan   (Zimbabwe) Vice-president Joyce Mujuru is in a last-minute bid to sell the controversial Indigenisation Act that threatens to take away majority ownership of...

Re: Namibia and mining and nationalisation – Dr. Okey Iheduru article

I was asked by the author of the article that I quoted in this last post to credit him for using his work.  The article came via Google alerts and was found on a Business Day website (not the...

Namibia and mining and nationalisation and Malema doesn’t even get a mention (must piss him off completely)

The most recent case of resource nationalism in Africa occurred last week in Namibia, the 4th biggest uranium producer in the world. Its ‘friendliest mining regime’ image evaporated on April 21 when...

BusinessDay – Accountants get high BEE target

Tsakani Matshazi, chairwoman of the chartered accountants charter council, said yesterday that the "ambitious" ownership targets took into account the "unique structure" of the...

Accounting firms must get black owners

Johannesburg – Big accounting firms have to be 32.5% black-owned by 2016, the black economic empowerment (BEE) charter for the profession stipulates, the Business Day newspaper reported on...

A decent job – Jerry Schuitema

I had a decent job once. And its definition is very different from that of Cosatu or the ILO which says: “Decent work is the availability of employment in conditions of freedom, equity, security and...

the Namibian: Govt pockets all rights to mine uranium

Govt pockets all rights to mine uranium (with my comments in italics) (the Namibian) CABINET has declared uranium, copper, gold, zinc and coal as strategic minerals to allow the...