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/ 25 November 2005
The real growth rate of the South African economy is expected to moderate next year, but remain at or above 4% for four years in a row, Econometrix economist Azar Jammine told a media briefing on economic prospects hosted by Noah Financial Innovation on Friday.
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/ 25 November 2005
A massive hunt was under way on Friday for four men who shot dead a Johannesburg metro police officer and critically injured a South African Police Service officer and another metro police officer. Police spokesperson Sergeant Sanku Tsunke said the police officials were shot at with handguns and automatic rifles.
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/ 25 November 2005
The rand is forecast to remain stable against the dollar over the next three years, but depreciate on a trade-weighted basis, as the United States current-account deficit leads to dollar weakness, Econometrix economist Azar Jammine told a media briefing on economic prospects on Friday, hosted by Noah Financial Innovation.
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/ 25 November 2005
Is this animal welfare? I refer to the Mail & Guardian‘s article (January 18) about the tragic story of Frida the Romanian lioness, so cunningly misused by Vier Pfoten International (VPI). Last year, our department of trade and industry asked me to comment on VPI’s application to establish a sanctuary in the Free State for […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Best the DA has to offer? It is laughable that the DA’s Athol Trollip is putting himself forward to replace Tony Leon at national level (“Trollip in race for DA’s top job”, January 12). Claiming that he can fill Leon’s shoes, albeit with difficulty, Trollip boasted on TV: “I am white on the outside and […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Revealed: Bleek Hoax It appears that the hallowed Bleek records, housed at the University of Cape Town (UCT), could be an elaborate hoax perpetrated by the German linguist, Wilhelm Bleek, aided and abetted by his sister-in-law, Lucy Lloyd, and his daughter, Dorothea. This bombshell was dropped at a conference on marginalised languages by Bleek’s great-grandson, […]
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/ 25 November 2005
DA is getting stronger In her analysis of the 2006 local election results (March 3), Vicki Robinson reached the premature conclusion that support for the Democratic Alliance had dropped and that the DA had once again failed to make inroads in the townships. A proper post-election analysis shows that the opposite is true: in 2006, […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Approximately two-thirds (68,97%) of top South African companies believe the internet is an effective recruitment channel and almost half (46,81%) are using online recruitment as part of their overall recruitment strategy, a CareerJunction survey has revealed. This is an increase of 22,81% since 2003.
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/ 25 November 2005
Heed your subjects’ cries! Paul Harris, you are my banker. Invest wisely: R20-million would help hire and train more than 20 000 more policemen and women. You cannot stay on the sidelines and expect the government to provide all the time. Be ingenious. Come up with plans in tandem with government. Do not seek personal […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Give Phumzile respect Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s trip, which was duly approved and authorised, is one of the prices we must pay to ensure that she is safe, and can continue to contribute significantly to South Africa’s development. She is the country’s second citizen — let’s accord her the respect she deserves. It is mischievous […]