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ECONOMIC REVIEW

Transparency? eThekwini would appear to be en route to a pyrrhic victory; economists say that hosting the 2022 Commonwealth Games probably will incur debt and be of little economic value to the city. So why would we want to be doing this?

Economists have stated, ad nauseam, that our GDP growth potential cannot be more than about 3%, given the structural make-up of the South African economy. Yet Nammawan senses that his 5% GDP growth target is

BUSINESS REVIEW

TomTom entered into an agreement with Volkswagen to supply mapping and real

PROPERTY REVIEW

John Loos says that the three previously disadvantage race groups accounted for 43% of home buying in the

PRACTICE REVIEW

Our Companies Tribunal chairman is under siege, following a tip-off that he inflated travel claims. I gather from the newspapers that members of the Tribunal are paid R6 -7000 per day. Outrageous, unless of course you

QUOTABLES

Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them. Charles de Montesquieu

WEIRD & WONDERFUL

Lies, damn lies and statistics: a statistician (a prof. nogal) says that winning rugby teams kick more than losers do. The difference is marginal being less than two kicks per game. One wonders whether the statistician took in mind that winners tend to have more ball possession than losers do and therefore have greater opportunity to kick? One also hopes that Heynecke Meyer does not get to hear of this

LIGHTEN UP

Boyle