*Abstract and Concrete *
*6 July 2012 - #1 *
*Construction giants face ban
<http://www.iol.co.za/business/business-news/construction-giants-face-ban-1.1335383>*,
Roy Cockayne, Business Report, Johannesburg, 6 July 2012
This story on the Business Report front page says that the five biggest
construction companies have been "colluding" -- running a cartel -- so
that quotes are higher. The government knows about it, wants to stop it,
and wants to exclude these companies from the R800 billion
infrastructure projects coming down the road. The companies say, we are
the industry, and you cannot do that infrastructure without us so you
will just have to pay our rigged prices.
*Businesses 'must fight corruption from within'
<http://www.iol.co.za/business/business-news/businesses-must-fight-corruption-from-within-1.1335397>*,
Ann Crotty, Business Report, Johannesburg, 6 July 2012
A woman who used to be CEO of a plastic pipe-making company wanted to
fight collusion (price-fixing) but got pushed out. Says the construction
industry is rotten with it.
*'Labour brokers won't be banned'
<http://www.iol.co.za/business/business-news/labour-brokers-won-t-be-banned-1.1335408>*,
Business Report, Johannesburg, 6 July 2012
Not fresh news, but re-stating, in a reply to a Parliamentary question,
the Minister Oliphant said: "cabinet at its meeting of March 20, 2012,
approved the Labour Relations Amendment Bill 2012 for submission to
Parliament. The amendments contained in the bill regulate labour
brokers, but do not ban them. The amendments will now be considered by
Parliament."
*Conflicts galore on education topic
<http://www.iol.co.za/business/business-news/conflicts-galore-on-education-topic-1.1335396>*,
Terry Bell, Business Report, Johannesburg, 6 July 2012
Terry Bell floats a lot of speculative accusations here about
educationbased on a couple of phone calls; but not against Lady Mary
Metcalfe or the new QUAGA (quasi-government aid-organisation) called
"Section 27". This is a low-grade article from the ultra-leftist
anti-communist and (usually) anti-COSATU journalist of the Business
Report "Inside Labour" column.
The school book scandal is years or even decades old. It is a political
story even more than it is a crime story. It is about who controls what
literature the children get to see. It is a political-education story.
Terry Bell has not got the story. As usual, he is deployed to bash some
part or parts of the movement, and in the first place, on this occasion,
SADTU.
*SACP poised to change its leadership structure
<http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2012/07/06/sacp-is-poised-to-change-its-leadership-structure>*,
Olebogeng Molatlhwa, Sowetan, 6 July 2012
Gossip about leadership of the Party.
*Mantashe to quit SACP's top job
<http://mg.co.za/article/2012-07-05-mantashe-to-quit-sacps-top-job>*,
Rapule Tabane, Mail and Guardian, Johannesburg, 6 July 2012
Interview with Solly Mapaila where Solly announces through the Mail and
Guardian that Chairperson Gwede Mantashe will not stand for that
position at the Congress.
*Poisoning Arafat
<http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/06/poisoning-arafat/>*, Uri Avnery,
Counterpunch, USA, 6 July 2012
Veteran Israeli former MP and friend of Yasser Arafat, on the undoubted
poisoning.
*VC*
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