Recently added articles from The Sunday Independent (South Africa):
business analysis.(Business Report Weekend)
Dec 06, 2009; ... Sheikh Mohammed was the top spender at the Tattersalls sales in Newmarket, England, on November 27, two days after Dubai World, the state-run company grappling with $59 billion (R429.2bn) of liabilities, said it would ask creditors for a "standstill agreement" on its debt. His ...
Victor Chandler takes first gamble in preparation for on-line licence in SA.(Business Report Weekend)
Dec 06, 2009; ... BYLINE: Wiseman Khuzwayo Gibraltar-based on-line gambling operator Victor Chandler International has been granted a licence to operate a sports bookmaking operation in the Western Cape. This is the first step in the operator's plans to prepare itself for the time ...
SA cartoonist draws up global deal.(Business Report Weekend)
Dec 06, 2009; ... BYLINE: Thabiso Mochiko A SOUTH African comic strip, Know Your Nation, is going international after cartoonist Tim Mostert signed a $22 million (R160m) deal to produce 2 200 television animation programmes for 22 Middle-Eastern Arab-speaking countries. The deal ...
For Vietnam, lingerie making is better than speculation.(Business Report Weekend)
Dec 06, 2009; ... Yet I met no shortage of investors willing to gamble on Vietnam and that is a good thing. Bubbles and uncertainty aside, don't lose sight of Vietnam's potential - including joining Brazil, Russia, India and China as one of Goldman Sachs' BRIC nations. To me, Vietnam is a ...
Classifying government accounts for posterity.(Business Report Weekend)
Dec 06, 2009; ... The publication provides a clearer picture of the state of finances in the form of aggregate cash flow statement of all levels of general government (national and provincial government; extra-budgetary accounts and funds; higher education institutions; and municipalities). ...
zz quote of the day.(Business Report Weekend)(Quotation)
Dec 06, 2009; ... Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on, with all the ...
zz Sections of tobacco laws challenged Batsa fumes over access to smokers.(Business Report Weekend)
Dec 06, 2009; ... BYLINE: Wiseman Khuzwayo British American Tobacco South Africa (Batsa) has attacked the National Council Against Smoking for issuing a statement that was "deliberately mischievous, provocative and misleading" regarding a constitutional challenge launched by the company against ...
Majali's prosecution on ice pending ruling.(Business Report Weekend)
Dec 06, 2009; ... BYLINE: Wiseman Khuzwayo The prosecution of businessman Sandi Majali had been suspended pending his application to the North Gauteng High Court on a constitutional matter, acting Judge Roland Sutherland ruled in the South Gauteng High Court. Majali has applied to the ...
My empowering wish-list solution for next year.(Business Report Weekend)
Dec 06, 2009; ... In my interactions with people at grass-roots level, I came across mixed feelings on Black Economic Empowerment (BEE). My main discovery was a countrywide lack of awareness about what BEE is all about. If people don't know what BEE is all about, how can they partake in the ...
Mauritius a fairy tale paradise Travel advice; Nerine Dorman is seduced by the tropical magic of an island stay in the luxury Le Touessrok resort.(Life)
Dec 06, 2009; ... We arrived well after dark, our bus pulling up beneath the spreading banyan tree to spill out a small group of South Africans into the balmy Mauritian night. From the outset, I realised our visit to the fabled Le Touessrok would be magical. I looked up to see a cat-sized fruit ...
Klazz Brothers show their class as the classics dance to Cuba's beat.(Life)
Dec 06, 2009; ... I know many readers love jazz versions of classical music. Here is a stunner! Classic Meets Cuba is an album that will entrance you. Here follows the skinny on how it all came together. Two German musicians, Tobias Forster (piano) and Kilian Forster (bass), are the Klazz ...
Overlong cornball shlock; Emmerich now stands as our premier Hollywood Disastermeister.(Life)
Dec 06, 2009; ... I LIKE to imagine that director Roland Emmerich had a key transformative experience at the age of seven, when a relative visiting from Bavaria accidentally trampled on his scale model of the Reichstag. Suddenly a light bulb went on over our young Teuton's head as he realised: people will ...
Thandie Newton on the challenge of working on '2012'.(Life)
Dec 06, 2009; ... ALTHOUGH Thandie Newton is at pains to stress that she thoroughly enjoyed the experience of making the blockbuster 2012, there were times when she longed for a dry set of clothes and a good night's sleep. "I spent a lot of time incredibly wet," she says. "Absolutely soaking wet ...
The boom pow house; David A Keeps peruses the Black Eye Peas founder's luxurious new pad in Los Angeles, which is fit for a king.(Life)
Dec 06, 2009; ... Will.i.am is a yes-we-can man. After setting the words of Barack Obama's famed campaign speech to music and creating the viral Dipdive and YouTube video viewed more than 35 million times, the multiplatinum recording artist has shown the same conviction in finishing his home recording ...
Sail away to Maputo and Barra Peninsula with Starlight Cruises offer.(Life)
Dec 06, 2009; ... The Star Travel Club's monthly Starlight Cruise offer concludes with a five-night voyage on MSC Sinfonia in February to Maputo, Portuguese Island and Barra Lodge. Send the name of the cruise company with your travel club number to the Marketing Department, PO Box 1014, ...
Coming of age; In a special feature, Mary Corrigall looks at all the defining characteristics of the noughties.(Life)
Dec 06, 2009; ... THE debate raged for days on Vogue magazine's online fashion forum: what fashion item originated in the noughties? Skinny jeans, suggested one fashionista. But as this fashion item is reminiscent of stovepipe or drainpipe trousers of the fifties and also mirrors the cut of the trousers ...
Technology finds offer a brave new world to the ordinary citizen.(Life)
Dec 06, 2009; ... WHILE we might not be able to say that the noughties gave rise to a particular brand of music or fashion, without a doubt this decade will be remembered for a host of new technologies and landmark online inventions that have not only altered how we conduct relationships but have created ...
Decade of fantasy and new views on reality.(Life)
Dec 06, 2009; ... FEAR is the overarching theme of this decade, suggests Ziauddin Sardar, author of The A to Z Of Postmodern Life: Essays On Global Culture in the Noughties (2002). Of course, Sardar made this observation in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks in the US, which created ...
Reality bites into culture.(Life)
Dec 06, 2009; ... EPIC TV series with labyrinthine plots that are rarely resolved at the end of an episode, or even sometimes at the end of a series, became de rigeur in the noughties with series such as Desperate Housewives, 24, Lost and Heroes emerging as the addictive TV highlights of the decade. ...
Zeroes and local heroes.(Life)
Dec 06, 2009; ... THE ideal female figure type for the noughties was the "size zero", which translated into zero fat, zero curves and zero food consumption. Never had young women aspired to such androgynous dimensions since the sixties, when Twiggy's lanky frame was considered the epitome of beauty. ...
