This is a big one: Kenya has found oil. Triumphantly waving little bottles of the stuff around, Kenyan government officials think they’ve hit the jackpot. Whether that’s true or not remains to be seen, but if the discovery is as big as everyone seems to think it is, then it will change Kenya and East Africa forever – only the direction remains to be seen. By SIMON ALLISON.

Business Unity SA is against the proposed amendments to the legislation governing labour. Some of the objections are procedural, but the real gripe is that the new laws will make business even more difficult. Well, this is Busa after all. By SIPHO HLONGWANE.

In December 2011 the department of trade and industry introduced new BEE procurement regulations and a BEE amendment bill. The new legislation is big on threats for non-compliance. Unfortunately the DTI is becoming its own worst enemy. By PAUL BERKOWITZ.

The New York Times may have lost its top spot as the world’s most read news website (to the UK’s Daily Mail), but the Grey Lady may have found the sweet spot when it comes to monetising content. By MANDY DE WAAL.

It was an interesting weekend for personality-driven advocacy work. Anti-Apple campaigner Mike Daisey was found to have made up many of his claims about working conditions in Chinese factories, Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell was detained for psychiatric observation after a bizarre public display and actor George Clooney was arrested for participating in a demonstration outside the Sudanese embassy in New York. By REBECCA DAVIS.

In a media world where newspapers have come up with all manner of membership clubs, partial paywalls, hard payment systems and other strange and fandangled solutions to extract money from readers who are reluctant to pay, Slovakia’s Tomáš Bella seems to have scored a hat trick. By MANDY DE WAAL.

With western economies on the slide, foreign investors are starting to see Africa’s potential for growth. Some have set up shop already. Others are searching for partners and potential. Yum Brands is looking to the year 2100 as it takes KFC across South Africa and the continent. By GREG NICOLSON.

Relations between the various members of the Alliance are always changing. On the surface, senior leaders will always talk up the "good" points. And lately they've all been quick to say, since Polokwane, they are in a very good space. However, there are some issues on which they simply do not, and will not, agree. Increasingly, it's becoming clear that one of these issues is labour broking. By STEPHEN GROOTES.

You know, we've said it before. South African politics has a habit of providing fantastic scripts for thriller novels. The crime lord who bribes the national police commissioner, the intelligence minister's wife who runs drug mules, arms deals and presidents – we really have the lot. Well, it would appear the latest one involves the deputy president (who was once president, and may be again. But not necessarily if this latest instalment turns out to be true), United Nations sanctions, a "romantic" partner, helicopters and Iran. You simply could not make this stuff up. By STEPHEN GROOTES.

Trevor Manuel once called the international financial markets “amorphous” – and was roundly denigrated by hardcore financial media. His description – though not strictly anthropomorphic – was actually quite accurate by comparison to what we read and hear today. By PAUL BERKOWITZ.

Technologist Lionel Bisschoff returned from abroad to create a good living as a consultant and trainer to big companies like Absa and SAB, so why’s he throwing millions into a digital platform that enables local government ratepayers to communicate better? By MANDY DE WAAL.

The world on the other side of your computer screen might as well not exist. In the battles waged between governments, WikiLeakers and computer hackers, the real world doesn’t count for much. Now, the FBI and its international partners have struck the notorious hacking collective Anonymous a potentially fatal blow. But how many lives does a hacker have in a universe of bits and bytes? By RICHARD POPLAK.

Digital marketing thinker Dave Duarte says businesses should pay at least as much attention to the culture of an organisation as to technological developments. By REBECCA DAVIS.

The Cosatu-led protest march against e-tolling, labour broking and corruption is set to kick off in Cape Town at 10:00 on Wednesday. The ANC Youth League and the SA Communist Party have pledged to join the protest, while the Democratic Alliance, having “called Cosatu’s bluff”, said it will not go where it isn’t wanted. By OSIAME MOLEFE.

With the corruption-busting force, the Special Investigating Unit, on site to stem graft, Eskom has come up with a novel concept for saving money for consumers. They’re called “family fun days” where Eskom spends millions on carousels, boerewors rolls, accommodation, transport, event organisers, buskers and jumping castles to save you paying more on electricity. By MANDY DE WAAL.

As banks abandon the company, and its CEO steps down, there’s more news of dodgy business practices from Auction Alliance. Acting CEO Bruce Sneddon is now imploring companies to stay, but it may all be a matter of too little too late in a scandal that’s seeing heads roll at financial institutions implicated in the auction house’s far-reaching kickback scandal. By MANDY DE WAAL.

If you build a port, the ships will come. If you build a railway, the trains will run. If you build a pipeline, the oil will flow. If you build all of the above, as intended by the new Ethiopia-Kenya-South Sudan axis, then you might just revolutionise the lives of people in East Africa forever. That’s the theory. SIMON ALLISON assesses the $24-billion construction of a new port on Kenya's Lamu Island.

Last year, a large number of black lobby groups split off from Business Unity South Africa to form the Black Business Council. On Thursday, the BBC launched officially, with several Cabinet ministers attending. The message at the launch was clear: transformation, transformation, transformation. By SIPHO HLONGWANE. 

This week saw a landmark decision handed down by a New York court: the ratification of a settlement between apartheid claimants and the bankrupt General Motors Corporation. By settling, GM effectively acknowledged its role in aiding and abetting the apartheid regime in South Africa. REBECCA DAVIS examines this complicated case.

Discovery this week launched the 2012 edition of the largest survey of workplace wellness in South Africa. In its second year, the Discovery Healthy Company Index, a joint initiative with the University of the Witwatersrand and Ron Goetzel from Emory University in the United States, is set to shed light on the health of corporate South Africa. By KHADIJA PATEL.

Following the death of Apple founder and re-inventor, Steve Jobs, sceptics have been quick to proclaim the imminent demise of the king of the hill technology company. Today, when the 25 billionth app is downloaded from the app store, the Cupertino-based behemoth can raise to a two-finger salute to those detractors. STYLI CHARALAMBOUS explains why.

No, Julius Malema hasn’t made it to the ANC bargaining table. Keen to take the stage before his disciplinary process wraps up, he addressed striking Impala Platinum employees on Tuesday. They must return to work and negotiate, he said, sort of. Meanwhile, a hole is being mined in Impala’s profit. By GREG NICOLSON.

After an extended absence, anti-secrecy organisation WikiLeaks published a cache of emails from Stratfor, a US private intelligence firm. WikiLeaks accuses Stratfor of collaborating with dubious sources and targeting activists in its work. The company itself has slammed the leaks, and the extremely revealing nature of the emails is going to put a lot of people's noses out of joint, including many South Africans. By SIPHO HLONGWANE.

The strike at Impala Platinum’s Rustenburg mine has continued for more than a month. Two people are dead. Many more are injured. At least 32 shops have been looted. Implats has lost 80,000 ounces of platinum worth more than R1.2-billion. On Wednesday, after Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi asked employees to return to work, a boardroom was set alight. Why has it come this far and who is responsible? By GREG NICOLSON.

It’s on. China Minmetals Group, the Hong Kong listed Chinese state-backed mining company, has been trying for years to buy themselves an African mining company. Last week, they just did that. Anvil Mining is the first shining jewel in the Chinese parastatal’s mining crown. It won’t be the last. By RICHARD POPLAK.

The idea for many a start-up has often been born out of the need to resolve an everyday problem. Two entrepreneurs needed a flexible and user-friendly billing system for their business and simply couldn’t find one. So they built one instead. Online billing platform, Snapbill, is one of those ideas where frustration evolved into inspiration. By STYLI CHARALAMBOUS.

Drawing the ire of South Africa’s financial giants is nothing new for Christo Davel. He did it with 20twenty and is doing it again with 22seven. His new venture, however, requires their cooperation. Can he get it and will 22seven be more stable than its predecessor? By GREG NICOLSON.

The 2012 edition of the Cape Town Mining Indaba is winding down. With 7,200 delegates, the majority sporting Australian accents, we learnt that no matter the political situation on the ground, the entire industry wants you to come and dig. Just bring a shovel. And a cheque book. By RICHARD POPLAK.

It’s been two weeks since former Competition Tribunal chairman David Lewis put his shoulder to the boulder by becoming executive director of the Cosatu-inspired Corruption Watch. As part of an ongoing series on corruption, MANDY DE WAAL spoke to Lewis about the massive task of stemming SA’s graft tsunami.