Jobs at risk from the global economic meltdown could not be saved if the companies at risk were not saved, President Kgalema Motlanthe said recently, giving the clearest sign yet that the government will devise a strategy to rescue businesses in trouble.
Taking pains to stress that the task team of
Many Africans have forgotten that they are African! In order for Africans to find solutions to the problems that plague Africa, they must understand the root causes, and apply appropriate homegrown solutions. The fundamental cause of the worst problems lies in the struggle for political power, exacerbated by legacies of
After the collapse of communism, Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries launched several radical reforms and achieved remarkable economic growth. Some of these countries have trusted the invisible hand more, others less. As a result, not only have the results of reforms been different, but the impact of
The deluge of coal-ash slurry that broke through a retaining wall near the Kingston Fossil Plant, a power plant in eastern Tennessee in the United States, on Dec. 22, 2008, and inundated 300 acres with more than a billion gallons of sludge, points out the enormous amount of waste generated
