On Monday, the Black Management Forum formally left Business Unity South Africa. BMF’s official version is because the “voice of black business was being marginalised”. Read between the lines, and it’s not nearly that simple. By STEPHEN GROOTES.

Having narrowly voted to accept terms and conditions for the first tranche of its bailout deal from the EU and IMF, the Greek government doesn’t have much time to prove its mettle on the highly controversial – and potentially volatile – austerity measures. By J BROOKS SPECTOR.

Volkswagen may be one of the world’s biggest producers of mainstream cars, but the Scirocco is proof that it can also come up with striking, aspirational designs. The two-door coupé has already become a firm favourite among those seeking a sporty drive. But this latest addition is about to set the cat among the performance car pigeons. By DEON SCHOEMAN.

In an effort to put the current particularly odious image of sleaze behind it and set a world in the grip of a slew of economic crises more at ease, the International Monetary Fund appointed French finance minister Christine Lagarde its newest managing director. Not a moment too soon. By J BROOKS SPECTOR.

What’s that? You think tech companies are overvalued. Well, don’t tell that to the folks who are about to fork over a cool $2.5 billion for GoDaddy.com, the site that registers domain names on the Internet. By RICHARD POPLAK.

The ANC Youth League wants to nationalise South Africa mines, but South Africa already has one nationalised mine and few will be surprised by the fact that it is losing money hand over fist. The history of diamond miner Alexkor’s gradual deterioration provides an eloquent negation of the Julius Malema’s vision of the Brave New World. By TIM COHEN.

Facebook’s market capitalisation is outrageous and, together with Nasdaq, is what’s to blame for insane Internet company valuations. This is the view of Naspers’ internet head Antonie Roux who said these “crazy” valuations are forcing the company to close its acquisitions’ cheque book. By MANDY DE WAAL.

The almost theatrical farce called the SA arms deal has had way too many villains so far including Schabir Shaik, Fana Hlongwane and that group of local corruption sleuths called the Hawks. Fortunately for the public there are good guys too, like the DA’s David Maynier and unrelenting arms activist Terry Crawford-Browne. This one may just end differently. By MANDY DE WAAL.

Spiderman has never had to battle a villain like this before: A bloated, insanely costly Broadway show—$75 million, with weekly costs of a further $1 million—that has just launched in Manhattan. It’s a lesson. Just because it can be done, doesn’t mean it should be done. By RICHARD POPLAK.

You won’t hear this a lot, but several reactors at the Fukushima I nuclear power plant have been in full meltdown for a while now. The authorities don’t know how to cool the reactors or remove the massively radioactive fuel cores. This is very likely now the world’s worst ever nuclear disaster. By SIPHO HLONGWANE.

Nothing good, the experts say. That’s the short answer. The long one is a little more nuanced than that, but it still spells doom for the country should the ANC Youth League have its way with the economy. By SIPHO HLONGWANE.

From a local perspective, the Audi A6 has to be the most underrated weapon in the German brand’s arsenal. Somehow it’s never managed to capture the imagination, nor match  the sales, of its arch-rivals: BMW’s athletic 5-Series or the rather more conservative Mercedes-Benz E-class. Could this latest, all-new A6 be the one with the ordinance to make an impact? By DEON SCHOEMAN.

Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Jack Warner. Until a few days ago, he was vice president of Fifa, head of the powerful Concacaf football federation, successful businessman and an MP in his native Trinidad and Tobago. He can now cross the first two items off his CV. But will football get any cleaner? (Pipe down ? we can hear your guffaws from here.) By RICHARD POPLAK

The good news is that latest QES release showed a 2.6% year-on-year growth in employment. The bad news is that there are still 200,000 fewer people employed than in late 2008, not to mention that the potential workforce has grown since then. Add the context of rampant youth unemployment, and it's clear that big business, labour and government won't be able to create enough jobs unless broader society lends a helping hand. By Citydex's PAUL BERKOWITZ. 

Yusuf Randera-Rees and Ryan Pakter founded the Awethu Project in April 2010. Fourteen months later, the project is supporting four hand-picked young entrepreneurs, has R3 million in funding from Discovery Holdings and has just won the prestigious Echoing Green social entrepreneurship fellowship. If things go according to plan, this is only the beginning. By THERESA MALLINSON.

Media people shook their heads in disbelief when government spokesman Jimmy Manyi laid out his rules for media outlets to receive slices of government's advertising cake. But not many are surprised to hear that Manyi wants to convert free, independent media into government marketers. That would be the same government that is funded by taxpayers. By MANDY DE WAAL.

Trevor Manuel is definitely, absolutely not running for the top job at the International Monetary Fund, he told a hastily-convened press conference in Rosebank on Friday. His big battles are still very South African. What we did get was a glimpse of, though, are the obstacles that Manuel would have faced had he campaigned for managing director at the IMF, and what sort of institution he would have inherited had he made it. By SIPHO HLONGWANE and PHILLIP DE WET.

All rise. The court is now in session. The accused before you, my Lord, is South Africa, and the charge is whether all that money spent on the 2010 Soccer World Cup was worth it? Was it an investment in our future or a crime against the people? Is the recording equipment working? Good. Then let’s proceed. By ALEX ELISEEV.

Blue. It’s the hue of the clearest summer sky. The cobalt of the ocean at its deepest. The frozen azure that tinges ice caps in the Arctic cold. But if you happened to be at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, in the hills overlooking Portugal’s version of the Riviera, blue belonged to Jaguar, and specifically to the all-new XK-RS. By DEON SCHOEMAN.

The policing of electrical work to ensure integrity of workmanship and the safety of residents and buildings has a long and tortuous history in South Africa. While electrical contractors clearly need independent oversight to minimise danger to life and property, this oversight should not be provided by external agents of the department of labour operating with exemptions from the competency and accreditation requirements of the Electrical Installation Regulations. By CHRIS YELLAND and MARK BOTHA.

Arianna Huffington has been making waves at her new home, AOL. It was never going to be otherwise. RICHARD POPLAK looks at the brewing storm.

Sitting on a plane from Addis Ababa to Johannesburg can be a tedious trip. Sometime late last year, a merciful friend from 24.com handed me his iPad to “play with and kill some time”. I still remember the feeling of being hit by a train as I realised just what a powerful media platform Apple had created. And so, out of one six-hour journey started another much longer one, and, as of today, we want to share it with you. By BRANKO BRKIC.

This week the world’s largest and richest newspaper named Jill Abramson, 57, its new executive editor. She has to steer the paper on through the shoals of the digital revolution. She is a very, very good choice. By RICHARD POPLAK.

It doesn't take a huge intellectual effort to understand that the long walk to a stable, strong South Africa will never be over. And while we're on that road, there will always be much to talk about. We can’t think of any better-qualified people to talk to than Jonathan Jansen. By EMILY GAMBADE.

Not that long ago, hybrid cars were an oddity – interesting to talk about, but not particularly appealing to own. However, thanks to spiralling fuel prices, and a growing awareness of green issues, that’s all changing. Besides, hybrid technology is becoming more user-friendly and sexier. Meet Honda’s Jazz Hybrid. By DEON SCHOEMAN.

Henry Jeffreys, The New Age’s editor until Tuesday, is headed back to the Cape for a quieter life filled with writing books, columns and completing his masters’ degree. Meanwhile, veteran newspaper consultants Ryland Fisher and Ray Joseph are still hard at work on the paper and say it doesn’t deserve all the negative press it gets about being a Zuma mouthpiece. By MANDY DE WAAL.

You’ll have noticed by now we are a capitalist website. With certain safeguards, we believe people should be able to risk their own money, start new things and, hopefully, create wealth, for themselves, and their communities in the form of jobs. When people do things better we all benefit. If you think that means this story celebrates the Competition Tribunal's Walmart decision, you'd be right. By STEPHEN GROOTES.

“Crisis? We are not in a crisis,” said a defiant Sepp Blatter at a Fifa press conference. In the wake of the huge uproar caused by allegations levelled by a top Fifa executive at the global football organisation, Blatter’s face told a very different story to his defiant words. To South Africans who regularly watch politicians squirm under extreme duress, it couldn't have been more familiar. By SIPHO HLONGWANE.