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04 February 2010 00:55
Who’s your daddy?
Let’s stop being so hypocritical as a society.
JOHANNESBURG - The timing of the Sunday Times's story about Jacob Zuma's love child is interesting. It looks as though it was designed to cause maximum damage to the president and to the country. By all accounts President Zuma had acquitted himself rather well last week at the annual Davos talk shop for the movers and shakers of the financial and the political world (for all the action click here and here for interviews). Whether anything important ever comes out of Davos depends on who you talk to but there's no doubt that simply being there counts. It might just be a great networking opportunity and a chance to chew the fat w...
28 January 2010 00:28
Did you suffer under apartheid? Your cheque is in the post
David Bullard considers just how ridiculous the SA class action is.
JOHANNESBURG - There is a famous saying among lawyers in the US....."where there's blame there's a claim". And where there's a successful claim there's usually a very fat legal fee that goes with it. Which probably helps explain the peculiar case against companies like IBM, Daimler Chrysler and General Motors who allegedly supported apartheid in this country and must now be made to pay reparation to those that suffered. The case is particularly strange in that it is being brought under the Alien Tort Claims Act in a US court. The Act allows non US citizens to bring civil claims against companies trading in the US. Which is great news for all of us because since most companies of any worth trade in the US we can all benefit from the Alien Tort Claims Act if we are imaginative enough to t...
21 January 2010 00:19
No sympathy for the devils
Untalented? What is one to do…
JOHANNESBURG - In less enlightened times there were a couple of ways you could end up with more money in your lifetime than you could conceivably hope to spend. Obviously if you were a member of the landed gentry you could inherit the stately pile, a vast art collection and a large shareholding in the family business (now an international company) and live happily ever after pursuing your hobby of growing prize orchids. Not for you the daily grind of turning up at an office and waiting eagerly for the monthly pay cheque. It sounds great but death duties, the cost of maintaining a 45 bedroom stately home and paying 14 under gardeners every month tend to dampen the initial enthusiasm you feel when the family solicitor breaks the good news that Papa has left it all to you, his favour...
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