Thursday, 10 November 2011 07:23
Knock-on benefits
It would appear that the frenetic construction activity in major urban centres around highways, bus rapid transit systems and high-speed rail may well be on the brink of bearing fruit – and this time, the bulk of the profits will not go directly to Austria.
Friday, 13 May 2011 07:38
Of the many grandiose projects that have emanated from the fevered brain of Muammar Gaddafi, perhaps the most ambitious was the United States of Africa.
Thursday, 10 February 2011 13:36
South Africa has shared in the catastrophic weather ravaging large areas of the globe at this moment in time (bridges washed away in KZN; bull sharks swimming in the shopping precinct of Ipswich, near Brisbane) but the private sector is being subjected to a different type of climate change: unprecedented competition.
Monday, 08 November 2010 08:45
One frequently underestimates the importance of a reliable transport system to the security of a country.
This point was brought home to me recently in reading eminent South African historian Charles van Onselen’s latest book, Masked Raiders: Irish Banditry in Southern Africa, 1880–1899 (published by Random House Struik). For two decades, “the world’s richest supplies of diamonds and gold were transported by coach and horses to distant ports for export.
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