South Africa’s poor are steadily getting angrier and they are preparing for something. They have relatively little to lose, except the hope that drives their movements, informed predominantly by desire for justice for those who are systematically dehumanised in our country today, writes Professor Pedro Alexis Tabensky under the heading:  “South Africa’s untouchables demand to be heard.

The Conference of the Parties (COP17) under the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change to be held in Durban, South Africa during December 2011 is likely to be just another inconsequential talk shop where the core problem at the heart of human-induced climate change – the link between greenhouse emissions and economic growth – remains unaddressed.

How much the trade in financial derivatives is skewing the world economy is probably impossible to quantify. But then, there may be someone who may just get the Nobel prize one day for attempting to do so­ – like the gentlemen of the infamous Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) in the nineties who got the Nobel prize and then failed spectacularly at their own subject when it was put to the test of the market, writes Heinrich Kruger.

The image of banks took a clobbering in the financial crisis of 2008/2009. Now we are told Europe’s banks need a bailout rather than countries. Nothing new there ­– the first business to go bankrupt in history after all was a bank! And it turns out that even that bank of personal last resort, the Piggy Bank, resulted from a mistake!

International reports seem to suggest that the people of the Karoo and environmental activists have all the reason in the world to fear the planned gas exploration in that vast South African semi-desert region. Without a proper regulatory regime  and an efficient enforcement agency to  police it, to allow exploration by so-called fracking could be extremely dangerous.

From the riots and protests that have engulfed North Africa and parts of the Middle East some important lessons can be learned. Certainly one of the most important is that every political leader has a sell-by date, writes Garth Cronje.

 South Africa, in contrast to many other developing countries and especially India and China, has a culture of debt rather than one of saving. Debt drives consumption levels upwards, resulting in low savings levels. Evidence shows that South Africa's domestic savings levels have exhibited a downward trend for the last two decades.

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South Africa won’t win the World Cup unless the Proteas learn to embrace pressure and do justice to their own talent in the moment critique. England secured a magnificent come-from-behind victory by successfully defending their meagre total of 171 in Chennai on Sunday.

Since April 2008, no Super 14 and Super Rugby visitor to Fortress Loftus could manage victory, until Saturday, that is. The Highlanders snapped the Bulls’ 18-match streak at Loftus and won 35-28.

“Worth a read?” is not your ordinary book review; it is a meta-review. In other words, it provides an overview of the opinions contained in a variety of book reviews published in the media at large. This week we take a look at “Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next”, by Greg Lindsay and John Kasarda, fresh off the press this month.

It took an intervention by President Jacob Zuma on his return to the country from a state visit to France to finally bring some perspective and hopefully some sanity into the dangerous game of national Russian roulette that exploded around proposed amendments to the Employment Equity Act. It is clear that there were few if any angels in the race drama that unfolded over many weeks.

The recent report by the Public Protector implicating Police Commissioner Bheki Cele in an improper property deal and a subsequent raid by police crime intelligence officers on the Public Protector’s office have again brought home starkly the fact that all is not what it should be with the South African Police Service (SAPS).