After much hype and talk that South Africa is the preferred site for the Square Kilometre Array - and incidentally one of the largest investments in this country - it seems the project
might end up
being 'shared' between SA and Australia. This is despite even more talk from both sides that 'sharing' is not an option - so that comes about, the investment might not be as large as we had hoped, had we won the bid outright. Which is not to say we won't... or will... we just have to await the final decision, fingers crossed.
On the mobile front there are now claims that
Turkcell tried to extort US$4.2bn from MTN... It seems things get murkier by the minute.
How should SA business spend their money? Paddy Hartdegen takes issue with Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba, who apparently had some thoughts on the subject. Hartdegen points out that rather than trying to tell SA business what to do with their cash, Gigaba should rather start telling his fellows in government to
stop sending out mixed signals. It makes business nervous, you see.
Oh kyk! 'Da Boss' is in town... For you food fanatics who sit glued to the magic box as Buddy Valastro and his team create (with some histrionics, to add flavour) yet another masterpiece for little Hank's party, or whatever, here's your chance to see the man in 'da flesh', so to speak. Why? How can this be? Because da
'Cake Boss' is due to bake up a storm in Cape Town.
Lastly, something for you petrol-heads out there - particularly those with around R1.4m in loose change aching to be spent... Our motoring editor, Henrie 'Schumacher' Geyser waxes lyrical on the 2012
Nissan GT-R, which seems to have made him weak at the knees - apparently quite a common reaction on the part of those of us who get all emotional when we spy a vision in metal (marred only by the e-tag, unfortunately).
Rod Baker, content director
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The Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group has just entered its 68th and 69th territories with new properties respectively in the Republic of Guinea and Gabon following on from the opening of a property in Ethiopia in January this year. 
The InterContinental Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport Hotel has won the Responsible Business Week initiative, in which hotels strive to ensure that their location remains appealing for future generations. In all, 250 initiatives worldwide entered the competition. 
Tourism industry stakeholders in the Western Cape were given official notice that destination marketing, investment and trade promotion for the province would now be done by a single, ramped up executing agency to increase the province's national and global competitiveness as a business and leisure destination. 
