It's party time at Gallagher Estate, the huge conference facility in Midrand. The whole staff of cellular telecoms company Vodacom, it seems, has gathered for its Christmas bash. The excitement is palpable.
Corporate sponsors tend to give money out of their social responsibility or philanthropic budgets.
By Ethel Hazelhurst Quincy Jones has made SA a personal project. Moscow Rivalry between Russia's Central Bank, platinum producers and commercial banks in Moscow is delaying authorisation of this year's platinum export documents. After two bleak years of price wars between major hotel chains and negative income growth, hoteliers are clinging to hopes of a long-awaited upturn in 2001.