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THAMI MAZWAI: BEE advisers wrong to curb white family firms

My disquiet on the committee’s suggestions regarding QSEs is that it would crowd out entrepreneurship — it virtually says whites or white families cannot start or own a small business without having a...

How you get to degrees of black?

This is taken from a recent article in the Business Day.  THE Department of Communications has reiterated its plans to involve black companies in the manufacturing of digital TV decoders through...

TESEF delays reminiscent of good ol’ SA

The execution of Black Empowerment Act, or Transformation of Economic and Social Empowerment Framework (TESEF), as the legislation is formally called, is yet to take place since Cabinet asked Prime...

Anybody want to know what happened to ASGISA?

ALEC HOGG: It's Monday January 10 2011 and in this special podcast we speak with Iraj Abedian, the chief executive of Pan African Advisory Services. Iraj, before we go into President Zuma's...

Rob’s new year surprise

Happy Noo Yeah!   It's always great to start a new year – there is a mountain of resolutions to ignore and weight to gain etc. Rob Davies, rather sweetly, left us with a little...

This defamation case is not going anywhere – Pierre De Vos

when a President sues a cartoonist he exposes himself to further ridicule and acts in a way that diminishes his own dignity. If the President goes ahead with his case he would be doing to...

More on the FSC

There has been a little bit of press on the draft FSC. It is only right that I talk a bit more about it. It's a little bit sparse and uses strong words like "fungibility" (paragraph...

Draft FSC gazetted under section 9(5)

It's amazing how these things get gazetted with little or no fanfair.  I picked up on it from a press release published by Moneyweb. Members of the public have until Wednesday 10 February...

John Lennon after 30 years

Why post on the 9th of December when he was murdered on the 8th.  Simple – I live in South Africa and we are six hours ahead of New York.  Lennon was pronounced dead at 11:15 PM NY...