The Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope (SKA) and its precursor, the MeerKAT,
will create enormous opportunities and alter the image of South Africa and the continent. So says Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor.
On the taxing issue of finance, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is taking
urgent steps against what he calls "significant tax avoidance schemes" in connection with the new dividends tax.
It's not surprising that companies are doing this - the dividends tax, which came into effect on 1 April this year at 15%, has pushed company tax in SA above an international norm of around 30%.
While the armed forces are not democracies and orders have to be obeyed, not debated, there's discipline... and then there's discipline - and when soldiers die or commit suicide, it's no wonder
SANDF discipline is in spotlight. This comes after a woman soldier apparently committed suicide after her commanding officer allegedly humiliated her.
Finally, for you petrol heads out there, our own little cookie, Henrie Geyser reckons the new Chinese offering from Great Wall Motors, the C10 has
promising fortune cookies. He likes the neat little hatch from the land of noodles and Mao's
Little Red Book.
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The fourteen winners of the Business Day BASA Awards were recently announced at a ceremony held at Wits Arts Museum in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. There were 12 innovative business and arts partnerships as well as South African arts advocate, Mary Slack, who was named this year's Art Champion, and Artist Proof Studio which won the Chairman's Premier Award. 
Kuli Roberts has been appointed as co-host of Kaya FM's morning drive show, 180 with Bob. Roberts, a South African fashion and beauty tabloid journalist and television presenter, started her journalism career at Fair Lady, before moving to Drum where she was fashion and beauty editor. 
E! Entertainment Television is refreshing its logo, on-air look and tagline following the recent unveiling of the new-look channel in North America. The new look will be revealed in South Africa on 23 September 2012, on DStv channel 124. 
After two years with Kaya FM, Thabiso Sikwane, host of the evening show Home, is hanging up her headphones to focus on her other home. In a very short space of time Sikwane has made her way into the hearts and homes of families across Gauteng and she will be sorely missed on the airwaves. 
Absoluut Afrikaans, an Afrikaans film festival, opens nationally this spring at Ster-Kinekor theatres with Die Wonderwerker, Stilte, Agter die Ligte and Wolwedans in die Skemer. 
The first theatrical release from Triggerfish, 
Hot on the heels of several sold-out performances as William Kentridge's Musical Director at the Avignon festival in France, Adam Howard is back in the driving seat at the Ministry Of Illusion and scoring up a storm for Brand South Africa and Publicis. 
