The South African government’s lack of leadership skills, accompanied by its failure to understand the social and political activities currently underway in the mining sector are to blame for the brewin...
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World-leading platinum group, Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) has given in to political pressure, resulting in a delay in its announcement of a restructuring plan that aims to leave 6000 miners jobless. Ampla...
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Over the past few months, consumers have suffered a strain within their finances due to the constant roller-coaster ride, of the rise and fall of petrol prices. Consumers will be relieved to know that there has...
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The BRICS summit in Durban last month stirred much positive discussion on how South Africa stands to benefit from this elite group. However, now that the excitement of the summit has died down a little, it may ...
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The H7N9 bird flu has broken out in China, which has led to the officials in the city of Shanghai ordering for a temporary closure of all the poultry markets in the city. There is also a possibility that all im...
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South Africa’s largest convention center, the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Convention Center, has added a staggering R14.5 billion to the country’s economy over the past six years, Mrs Jullie-May Ellingson...
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Owner of a successful web design and development company Jam Factory, Etienne Bruwer, says that banks and other financial institutions spend many millions on web development because they must be able to guara...
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You may have noticed that ebooks are a sensitive topic to bring up if you happen to be in the company of someone who works in, or at least swears by, legacy publishing methods. The feel of a crisp, new page, th...
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I recently discovered that Adbrite, one of the biggest ad networks which was considered by many as the best alternative to Google Adsense, shut down almost a month ago. Apparently they were planning to sell Adb...
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The Financial Services Board (FSB), in agreement with the life assurance ombudsman, has directed a warning towards life assurance companies, advising them to apply caution when instating clauses that would allow the companies to cancel hospital cash plans marketed as whole-of-life policies. The dispensation of warnings follows the recent uncovering of an organised scam that involves hospital plans receiving a significant number of claims for excessively large stays in hospita... Read more »
