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Nestle, Mugabe and the Devil’s Alternative
Category: Blog/Analysis
... of their assets, depressed earnings, and corruption. And they have stayed. Their reasons are varied, and I have no wish to put words in their mouths, but I imagine them as follows: politics is not ... Thursday, 31 December 2009 -
The delicate subject of patents
Category: Blog/Analysis
... lack; we can just head down to the supermarket. Our biology hasn’t adapted to plenty. Unfortunately, our politics hasn’t adapted to scarcity. Ownership of physical things is relatively easy to understand. ... Thursday, 03 December 2009 -
The privilege of employment
Category: Blog/Analysis
... France is at 67% since people there spend longer on their high-tech educations. The exact definition of “participation” creates a difficulty for analysts since politics can intrude. If you assume a ... Thursday, 30 July 2009 -
The return to Serfdom
Category: Blog/Analysis
... union movement sought to give rights to workers. Political representation followed, along with a growing middle-class. As politics changed, so did the rights of individuals. No longer would one group ... Wednesday, 17 June 2009 -
Where did South African manufacturing go?
Category: Blog/Analysis
... citing a deliberate campaign by agencies of the government of California to shut him down. California is regarded as having the most dysfunctional politics in the US. Unemployment is America’s ... Wednesday, 22 April 2009 -
Everything gets tested but political ideas, they become policy
Category: Blog/Analysis
The dog ate my assessment Untested scientific ideas are subjected to the jealous scrutiny of peer-review. Untested business ideas are subjected to the even more brutal peril of perpetual individual consumer ... Thursday, 07 August 2008 -
Dealing with the consequences of Zimbabwe
Category: Blog/Analysis
The face of Africa's shame Politics isn't only about driving around in bling-tastic German motor cars and eating canapés at functions. Poor political decisions are not simply absorbed by a ... Saturday, 28 June 2008 -
Of Chiefs and Presidents
Category: Blog/Analysis
... leading the breadbasket of southern Africa, and on many occasions leading the SADC on politics. Twenty-eight years on, the man has become his people's worst enemy. The economy is virtually non-existent ... Wednesday, 09 April 2008 -
Simba the Saviour?
Category: Blog/Analysis
Is Makoni the man? For 28 years, the Zimbabwean ruling party, Zanu PF, has campaigned using the same old slogan, "We liberated this country." Thank you very much for your efforts, now liberate ... Sunday, 10 February 2008 -
Exports and parliamentary laziness
Category: Blog/Analysis
And it's good exercise too There are few moments at which business executives may safely weep and earn nothing but respect and admiration. One of these is at the opening of a new manufacturing plant. ... Wednesday, 30 January 2008 -
Of Capitalism, Socialist Greed, Poverty and Remaining Silent
Category: Blog/Analysis
... capitalists. A quick glance around the planet reveals the opposite. Zimbabwe, North Korea, Pakistan, Nigeria, Iraq all have lots of politics, but very little cash to spend. If anything, it appears that ... Tuesday, 22 January 2008 -
The spectre of loyalty over ability
Category: Blog/Analysis
... politics. The support received by Madlala-Routledge is simply the squabbling of opportunistic players over the Emperor's new clothes. And we all know what he was wearing. Nothing. ... Tuesday, 18 September 2007 -
The Trouble with Paradise, or why Pakistan Sucks
Category: Blog/Analysis
... of the humanity of others. Otherwise they are frightened of you and cannot see your humanity in your time of need. As in relationships between people so in the politics within the community of nations ... Sunday, 01 July 2007 -
The tragedy of innovation: how brilliant ideas are criminalised
Category: Blog/Analysis
The Increment of Man "This push for a so-called "green revolution" or "gene revolution" is being done once again under the guise of solving hunger in Africa. Chemical-intensive ... Thursday, 21 June 2007 -
Freedom of speech is fine, just don't try to use it, says Patricia de Lille
Category: Blog/Analysis
Don't tell me what to do! Patricia de Lille, head of the Independent Democrats, has an unusual relationship with free speech. A few examples from her opus of quotes: On US mediation in the ongoing Palestinian ... Monday, 21 May 2007 -
Nigeria, or the idiots guide to stealing an election
Category: Blog/Analysis
... this, then he will be a good president." Professor Laurence Schlemmer, a South African analyst of African politics, once said, "Africans are very sceptical of politics and politicians. They ... Thursday, 17 May 2007 -
Internet Bubble 2.0: the future of dotcom depends on the mobile phone
Category: Blog/Analysis
... politics. In Europe and Japan, the other two important Internet markets, local governments have given protections to their historically state-owned telecommunications companies; the companies that offer ... Tuesday, 24 April 2007 -
Jacob's ANC Ladder: the power of the state, the power of the party
Category: Blog/Analysis
... Zuma only has to sell himself to the party. African politics is - like most developing country politics - completely different from that experienced in the developed world. Liberation politics prevail. ... Wednesday, 18 April 2007 -
Cricket, corruption and the match-fixing that leads to murder
Category: Blog/Analysis
... one electricity provider in South Africa, the state-protected Eskom. With no real competition to focus business strategy, most daily attention is aimed at internal politics, scheming to increase profits ... Saturday, 24 March 2007 -
Climate Change: measurement, responsibility and risk
Category: Blog/Analysis
... his distaste. Science has become the domain of politics. Instead of simply reporting the facts and allowing them to be debated, scientists are attempting to game the system. Recent research ... Tuesday, 20 March 2007
