IN Monday’s Business Day cartoon, Shaun Abrahams, the head of the National Prosecutions Authority (NPA), is depicted waiting on a scooter at an intersection. He’s sitting there trying to make up his mind about whether to proceed straight, turn right, or turn left. South Africa's President Jacob Zuma (C) leaves after a summit on [...]
THE POST-APARTHEID South African socio-political and business landscape has been an amazing mecca for branding companies. DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 30JAN10 - Supporters of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, are captured prior to the 'Davos Kick-off for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa' in the Congress Centre, at the Annual Meeting 2010 [...]
Spot the difference: Uber versus OTTs I CANNOT, while following the ganging-up by MTN and Vodacom against Over The Top (OTT) messaging services like WhatsApp, Skype, Viber, and others, shake off memories of the South African meter taxis, last year, when they went into the same battles against Uber. The similarities are striking; two mobile [...]
I DON'T know about you, but the feeling that we’ve all been brilliantly played by President Jacob Zuma and his defenders is getting stronger each time I think about the events preceding and following the unceremonious removal of former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene from office, back in December. At the time, our world almost came [...]
PAGING through South African print and online media since last week, one would have thought that we live in a real dictatorship, in which any media platform not reporting on even the smallest hand movement by the head of state would be hauled before some political ethics committee. Jacob Zuma, South Africa's president, gestures [...]