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Bungling regulators contribute to consumer misery

23 October 2009

South Africa is stuck in a telecommunications ice age. When it comes to cellular services and internet connectivity the rest of the world is decades ahead of us. Service providers in the US, UK and Europe beat local providers hands down on measures of qua

What is this ‘entitlement’ everyone is talking about?

09 October 2009

What is entitlement? A quick search on dictionary.com provides a definition suitable for this forum. Entitlement is “the right to guaranteed benefits under a government program [such as] social security or unemployment insurance.” The South African govern

South Africa’s own judgement day

25 September 2009

“Will he or won’t he,” was the question most legal experts were asking as the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) deliberated over 23 candidates for a number of soon to be vacant Constitutional Court seats. They were, of course, wondering whether controvers

Shedding light on Eskom’s aluminium blunder

13 September 2009

When we heard that Eskom had lost in excess of R9bn in the year to 31 March 2009 we hardly skipped a beat. We figured the countrywide load shedding coupled with global recession would decimate profits at even the healthiest company. It’s only when we disc

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