Letters to the editor
From William Kelly* Yet again it hits me and it sticks in my craw about just how we consumers are being taken for a ride. Yes, I realise this is a world-wide problem and it is not just related to South Africa but the thread is common.I’m talking about the super companies. The super businesses … Read more
colinD/30Jul Winning or not winning in sport is not the whole story, but it is certainly a sizeable part of the social practice. Winning is such a different feeling to losing; to not winning. And, beating New Zealand at anything is a terrific feeling! I have been keeping a casual eye on the Commonwealth Games … Read more
Colin Donian| 23 July 2014 The Russians did it! The Russian-backed separatists did it. A Russian missile did it. The Ukrainians did it. No, Putin did it…and so it goes, sans the evidence. There is a double tragedy contained in the accident of flight MH 17. There are the 298 bodies and the petticoat of … Read more
Dear Alec Your site is brilliant. Keep it coming. An integral part of my career in the Chemical Engineering Project Management sector in the 60s through to the 90s was flying as a passenger all over in Southern Africa and in North America, in small to medium sized corporate aircraft, plus many flights in commercial airliners … Read more
A Solution to our Impasse By Colin Donian I watched Russia Today for a while this morning, with a mug of delightful coffee and a muesli rusk. I do not choke any longer when I see broken bodies in my living room. Today it was Arabs, Palestinians, Ukrainians; children, women, men. I switched off and … Read more
By Alexx Zarr It is about our unfinished business. We need to sort it, now or never. Like that clever chap Einstein said, if doing it one way does not solve a problem, do it another way. We’ve been talking for twenty four years (or is it more?) about the same old stuff. Eish. This … Read more
Biznews Community member Alfons Mauchie writes to Econometrix chief economist Azar Jammine: Dear Azar, I saw your interview on Carte Blanche. NUMSA’s President needs to be seriously confronted with the facts. I agree with you that SEIFSA, NEDLAC and other employer bodies have seriously been at fault for not informing and confronting the unionists with … Read more
From Mo Haarhoff, a member of the Biznews community I fell in love with words when I was still quite young. At that stage, this passion obviously manifested itself in reading. Then I graduated to little homilies that were succinct but very true. One of my favourite quotations from my teenage years are these few … Read more
From Dewald Janse v Rensburg, HR Manager, Novatek Drills (Pty): The report in Biznews.com on the pending NUMSA strike is clearly written by someone who does not understand labour organisation and the relevant structures very well. The MEIBC is not an employer group. It is a bargaining council founded in terms of the Labour Relations … Read more
It’s a safe bet that politicians are not exactly the most respected South Africans right now. You’ve really got to scratch to find any who would rank higher than used car salesmen in the public’s perception. Even my former colleague from the RDM, Helen Zille, blotted her copybook through “the kiss” and quickie divorce from … Read more