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/ 5 November 2007
Short-term insurers have a gleam in their eye. The department of transport’s proposed driver’s licence demerit points system could mean big gains for the industry, should it prove successful. Heavy hitters like Outsurance, Santam and Mutual & Federal would eagerly welcome a new system that would allow them to profile their customers’ portfolio and adjust individual insurance premiums according to the demerits a client racks up.
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/ 26 October 2007
Jane Rosenthal reviews Clive Algar’s <i>Journeys to the End of the World</i> and Kelly Fletcher reviews Kathy Reichs’s <i>Bones to Ashes</i>.
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/ 25 October 2007
HIV/Aids has forced all sectors of society to respond to the ravages of the epidemic — from businesses and health insurers to educational institutions. It has forced those who care for the terminally ill, our caregivers and health workers, to re-invent how they treat those living with the virus.
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/ 19 October 2007
Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya and his deputy managing editor, Jocelyn Maker, can sleep soundly until next week, at least, without the threat of arrest. The public prosecutor has not yet made up his mind whether the case of theft against them should go to court. Until he does, they will not be arrested.
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/ 17 October 2007
Science is supposed to be about proof, numbers, evidence, data. Not heart — unless you’re a cardiologist. But Phil Campbell, editor-in-chief of the peerless peer-review journal, Nature, recently got soft and sentimental at the Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town as he honoured two leading South Africans for quietly doing something emotional and inspirational: nurturing the next generation of scientists.
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/ 15 October 2007
International research has shown that households can save as much as 10% of their annual electricity bill by reducing their ”phantom” power or standby power consumption. But South Africa has no research examining this energy- sucking phenomenon and shows little interest in the international community’s moves to curb standby power waste.
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/ 15 October 2007
Nothing illustrates South Africa’s love of tata ma chance more than the reported 20 seconds it took for the first lottery ticket to be snapped up when the lotto relaunched last Friday. After the acrimonious and fraught months since the national lottery’s suspension in March its re-awarding to preferred bidder Gidani has been met with relief, especially on the part of Gidani chairperson and chief executive Dr Bongani Khumalo.
ON CIRCUIT: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles unlikely to impress non-fans and death-by-carrot in Shoot ‘Em Up.
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/ 25 September 2007
International countries are angling for South Africa’s skilled workers — with the country’s financial services sector one of the first waters where global recruitment companies are casting their nets. Jocelyn Rowe, a British-based recruitment company for the financial services sector, said 19 800 new financial services jobs opened up in the City of London in August.
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/ 14 September 2007
The Constitutional Court will this week hear argument that could dramatically change the system for foreigners to adopt South African children. The case for the adoption of baby R by an American couple will be argued on Tuesday in Braamfontein after the Johannesburg High Court and Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed attempts by the couple to obtain a custody and guardianship order.