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Cabinet approves appointments of CEOs at Prasa and SA Post Office The struggling Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa will have a new CEO. File photo. Image: Paul Ash The cabinet has approved the appointment of Zolani Matthews as the new group CEO of the troubled Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa). This was confirmed by acting minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, who was addressing a post-cabinet media briefing on Friday. Prasa has been battling with stability in its management for the past four years, having had seven acting CEOs. Matthews will ...

Top 10 Times Alexa Went Rogue Like Hal 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey, sometimes technology turns rogue. Interactive devices might seem innocent, but it is only a matter of time before they start screaming expletives at your family and ordering you to commit murder. Alexa is no exception. Amazon’s digital helper has, on many occasions, flipped out and turned against its users. Some people feel that the technology is worryingly similar to the monitoring devices imagined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Jeff Bezos claims the Echo device will make our lives easier, but time and time ag...

There must also be a rigorous business plan made public and critiqued by an independent third party. That didn’t happen a few years ago when a Commonwealth Games bid was floated, rather initial support was garnered in secret around the Capital Regional District table and endorsed without the public weighing in. The province wisely declined to provide financial support and eventually the bid fell apart. Contrary to the pitch by proponents, municipalities and local citizens will most certainly have to fund part of the budget. The pandemic, and now uncertainty around several COVID-19 varia...

Agriculture eyes rival to Land Bank 1 Feb 2021 Reaction: The failure of the Land Bank has acted as a catalyst for the agriculture sector to find alternative forms of financing. (David Harrison/M&G) The agricultural industry says an alternative agricultural financing institution to the Land Bank could be established within a year. According to the president of the World Farmers’ Organisation and chairperson of the Southern African Agri Initiative, Theo de Jager: “An independently owned and financed bank could be up and running in around a year from now if discussions go well. Remember we d...

A POPULAR gin-making duo have taken over a bar in Horwich. Paul Welch and Mark Barnes, who run The Bolton Gin Company, have just bought the Tap and Cork in Horwich. The pair will stock all 80 of their flavours behind the bar, alongside local cask ales from other Bolton-based companies. Mr Welch said: "We've grown quite massively, we've been getting better comments and a better reputation, we got the product into more places, so we thought next stage – lets buy a bar. "It's in Horwich which is where we're based, where we started, and it's close to where we make the gin so if we run...