The public enterprises department recently announced it was awaiting an urgent response from the South African Airways (SAA) board regarding serious allegations levelled at CEO Khaya Ngqula by the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu).
Satawu last week handed a dossier containing allegations of wrongdoing against SAAs senior
As Treasury reserves in Venezuela dwindle, electricity blackouts become commonplace, public security deteriorates and the finances of the state-owned oil monopoly, PdVSA, fall further into disarray, there is little reason to think the decline will be reversed any time soon. If President Hugo Chávez hopes to continue governing under the
More Americans than ever are travelling abroad for medical treatment, according to a study released by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. Approximately 750,000 Americans travelled abroad for medical care in 2007, and as many as 6 million will have received healthcare outside the United States by 2010. Advocates of
January 1, 1959 should have been a joyous day for Cubans; Fulgencio Batista was leaving and they were getting a new leader, Fidel Castro. But something went terribly wrong, says Otto Reich, former assistant secretary of state and special envoy for Western Hemisphere affairs under Pres. George W. Bush. Very
A member of Britain's government says couples should be limited to two children to save the Earth from global warming. It's discouraging that such people are in positions of power, says Investor's Business Daily (IBD).
Jonathon Porritt, chairman of the government's Sustainable Development Commission, doesn't have the power to set a
