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Can
Zuma become the president who delivers on jobs? As President Jacob Zuma takes the
parliamentary podium next Thursday and pronounces on the state of
the nation, business and labour constituencies will be watching
intently. What tiny signs might there be that a real shift has
taken place in the ANC’s thinking on how best to create jobs?
Will Zuma hint, like ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe , that
the time to talk tough to the trade unions has come and that it’s
better to have more lower-paid jobs for more people than fewer
jobs of better quality?
The
Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal and the High Stakes Games
Played Inside Lehman Brothers, by Vicky Ward
They were the Rat Pack of Wall Street. Four close
friends: one a decorated war hero, one an emotional hippie, and two
regular guys with big hearts, big dreams, and noble aims. They were
going to get rich on Wall Street. They were going to prove that men
like them ? with zero financial training - could more than equal the
Ivy-League-educated white shoe bankers who were the competition. They
were going to create an institution for men like them -- men who were
hungry and untrained ? and they were going to win, but not at the cost
of their souls. In short, they were going to be the good guys of
finance.
Choice,
not fate the life and times of Trevor Manuel: Biography of Trevor
Manuel,
Pippa Green
Trevor Manuel has been South African Minister of
Finance since June 1996. He was born in Cape Town in January 1956 the
son of an employee of the Cape Town City Council. He was involved in
the founding of the UDF in the Western Cape and subsequently became
the regional secretary of the United Democratic Front (UDF). Between
1985-1990 he was repeatedly detained without trial or placed under
house arrest, spending a total of 35 months in detention. In 1992
Manuel became head of the ANC's Department of Economic Planning. After
the April 1994 elections Manuel was appointed Minister of Trade
Industry and in March 1996 he was appointed Minister of Finance
