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Leadership Intelligence Bulletin
23 February 2010
New climate debate
New climate debateWrong models can cause costly mistakes

In the wake of what is generally described as a “weak” outcome of the Copenhagen conference on climate change at the end of last year, the whole debate about the reality of mankind’s contribution to global warming has been kicked wide open again. The United Nations’ climate panel, known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), admitted flaws in a 2007 report, while erroneous predictions can lead to bad and costly business choices. 

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Cricket in India
Cricket in IndiaWhy was technology not used?

The heroic and spirited fight back by Wayne Parnell and Dale Steyn in the first one-day cricket international against India at Jaipur overshadowed what was a stumbling and stuttering display by the South African middle-order. If available and accepted technology was used, it could easily have been a different result.

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Labour unrest threatens
Labour unrest threatensGeneral strike by Cosatu in October seems more likely

Labour unrest could become part of the price the South African economy might have to pay for the unfolding battle within the ranks of the country’s governing alliance. Unless relations between the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) and its ally, the African National Congress (ANC) as leader of the ruling alliance, improve dramatically in the immediate to near future, the country could face a crippling general strike by October of this year.

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Housing's legal battle
Housing's legal battleCourt ruling could set new precedent

Councils across the country, property developers and owners whose properties are illegally occupied by squatters, squatter communities and organisations representing them and local tax and ratepayers, will all keep a very keen eye on the pending legal battle of the Joburg council to overturn a recent ruling in favour of landlords and illegal squatters by the High Court in Johannesburg. The ruling could change the power relationships between these groups forever.

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SA petroleum politics
SA petroleum politicsSlippery battle lines emerge

After years of secrecy, overriding political and security considerations and protected monopolist practices, the fuel industry in South Africa is heading for a new showdown as competing players variously promote and resist new options in a changed global and local environment. While state-owned fuel company PetroSA wants government to invest billions of taxpayers’ rands in a new 400 000 barrels-per-day refinery at Coega, known as the Project Mthombo, one of the largest petroleum groups in South Africa, BP Africa is cautioning the government against approving the greenfields refinery project of more than R77bn.

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The political storm
The political stormThe political landscape is changing forever

Only a few weeks ago it was assessed here that the political scene in South Africa is in a transition to new dividing, more natural, ideological lines. The process seems to have come into full swing and the country is in the midst of a political storm that, as was expected, is a messy affair as different power bases within the ruling alliance battle it out for dominance. It is likely to take some time and to be filled by high drama at times, but the political landscape is in the process of changing forever.

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Super 14
Super 14Two SA-teams look good

The high-octane performances the past two weekends have proven that the Bulls and Stormers have the firepower, the depth in numbers, and the balance to fight for supremacy in the Super 14-final of 2010. One or two observers might ask if the author would provide them with the name of the drug that has caused such delusions of grandeur as well as hallucinations.

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Water security
Water securityInternational problem - acute in South Africa

Only 30% or 11% of South Africa’s 283 municipalities are at this point in a position to render adequate water services, the Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee on Service Delivery was told recently. It is, however, not a problem unique to South Africa and the dangers of a disaster due to shortage of quality water is a worldwide phenomenon.

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Leadership development - Issue 12
Leadership development - Issue 12Learning from the worlds best

With the co-operation of the The LR Management Group, we can now bring you the leadership training tool 50 Lessons, which is a powerful force in the world of corporate learning. 50 Lessons is the world's premier multimedia business resource, offering more than 1 000 personal and authentic video lessons from internationally respected business leaders. It can assist you to increase the utilisation and return on investment of your learning programmes immediately!

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Digital media
Digital mediaWoolworths held ransom by web entrepreneur

Two weeks ago Yuppiechef.co.za, a feisty, fast-growing online kitchen tool store, had an opportunity fall into their laps that small entrepreneurial companies dream of: the chance to go head to head in public with a large corporate, David-and-Goliath-style, and hold Woolworths ransom using social media. It began with a misspelled web address in a Woolies advertising campaign and turned into an ingenious, unplanned viral campaign that raised R100 000 for the charity Soil for Life in 14 days.

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