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/ 18 February 2008
If you’ve got ambitions to be a CEO, then it’s apparently time to toughen up. According to a recent study from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, soft skills such as listening, flexibility and treating people with respect aren’t valued nearly as highly as more assertive attributes when it comes to hiring decisions.
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/ 18 February 2008
A study by researchers at Monash University in Australia has found that gastric banding surgery has a profound effect on one of society’s biggest health issues: diabetes. The four-year study monitored 60 volunteers for two years who underwent weight loss of more than 10% of their body weight.
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/ 18 February 2008
Thembekile Mankayi is 49 years old. In 1995, when he was 37, he contracted silicosis and silico-tuberculosis from inhaling silica dust while working for Anglo American’s Vaal Reefs Exploration and Mining Company, which later became AngloGold Ashanti. He was awarded a lump sum of R16 320 after contracting the illness.
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/ 18 February 2008
The Zambian government’s attempt to increase earnings from its rich copper deposits by raising mineral taxes to global norms is meeting with resistance from mining companies, which signed legally binding development agreements based on a 0,6% royalty tax. Finance Minister Ng’andu Magande announced in his national budget last month that government had revised the tax regime for the mining industry.
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/ 18 February 2008
A winter without enough electricity looks likely. But as government proposes switching energy sources to alternative fuels, such as liquid petroleum gas (LPG), problems in pricing and supply will hamper any major roll-out of LPG for the domestic market. LPG, supplied and marketed by major gas companies can be used as an alternative fuel source to heat water and cook in the home.
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/ 18 February 2008
”There are numerous cases of no-fee schools that did not receive their allocations. Some things require checking and monitoring and I include myself in some of the failings. Now, every week I want a report on no-fee schools and I don’t take things at face value, ” education minister Naledi Pandor tells Ferial Haffajee.
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/ 18 February 2008
Travelling in private jets, helicopters and bulletproof limousines, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, a staunch supporter of President Pervez Musharraf, is hard on the campaign trail for Monday’s Pakistani general election. But at his lavishly funded, tightly guarded rallies there is a striking absence: any mention of Musharraf.
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/ 18 February 2008
Travelling in private jets, helicopters and bulletproof limousines, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, a staunch supporter of President Pervez Musharraf, is hard on the campaign trail for Monday’s Pakistani general election. But at his lavishly funded, tightly guarded rallies there is a striking absence: any mention of Musharraf.
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/ 18 February 2008
If your religious festivals follow lunar phases and seasonal solstices, you will be happy to know that marriage under pagan rite and ritual is now a possibility for South Africans. The South African Pagan Rights Alliance (Sapra) has been designated by the department of home affairs a religious organisation under section 5 of the Civil Union Act (17 of 2006).
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/ 18 February 2008
The enterprises division in Eskom was responsible for the processes that culminated in the award of the tenders to which you refer in “Moosa in R38-billion tender conflict”. The innuendo that this process was in some way flawed or subject to political influence is totally unfounded, writes Brian A Dames.