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/ 25 October 2007
The Old Mutual Foundation’s Kate Miszewski has left an indelible mark on the communities she has served. Starting her career as a qualified primary school teacher, Miszewski has taught and lectured in a number of countries around Africa — including South Africa, Botswana and Namibia — before entering the world of social investment.
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/ 25 September 2007
A year ago, the Mail & Guardian reported how the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link was raising property values in areas near planned stations. Set to revolutionise how Gautengers travel, the single line transecting major suburbs could get commuters off the roads, and to their destinations much faster.
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/ 7 September 2007
Jimmy Manyi, chairperson of the Commission for Employment Equity and president of the Black Management Forum (BMF), hit headlines this week after he proposed to Parliament that white women should be struck off a list of groups recognised by the employment-equity legislation as previously disadvantaged.
Nedbank is making things happen in a number of rural communities in the Eastern Cape. It has opened a mobile branch in Centane and another branch, called the Green Shop, will open as soon as it is built. Working with Pick ‘n Pay Group stores, Nedbank has opened an in-store branch at Boxer Superstores, one of the Pick ‘n Pay Group stores.
Zimbabweans who want to sneak into South Africa illegally have to be resourceful, brave and cunning. First, their journey takes them to the South African border. One option for crossing is to use syndicates operating from Beit Bridge, which use South African-registered vehicles to transport people from Bulawayo to Johannesburg for a fee ranging between R800 and R1 000
Brenda Atkinson MIXED MEDIA Most of us have accepted that the glory days of television are over, which cannot be altogether bad. For one thing, we are no longer in thrall of Cliff Saunders’s duplicitous droning on the SABC news; for another, the proliferation of alternative news and entertainment media can only improve the quality […]
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/ 29 September 1999
IN a bid to make Spoornet profitable, Transnet plans to shut down all Eastern Cape railway lines with the sole exception of vital goods and passenger routes between Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg. Transnet Managing Director Saki Macozoma said it aims to keep profitable lines only – essentially lines linking major centres and the Reef with […]
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/ 15 January 1999
Iden Wetherell The detention by military police this week of a Harare newspaper editor could signal the beginning of a media crackdown by President Robert Mugabe, who has been angered by press reports of misrule and setbacks in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Following renewed flak from Zimbabwe’s independent media and a drubbing in the […]
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/ 13 November 1998
The furore about the new anti-smoking legislation is not about individuals’ rights, argues Michael Metelits Minister of Health Nkosazana Zuma’s Tobacco Products Control Amendment Bill fired up a huge controversy as tobacco firms, lobbyists and unions squared off against the government and anti-smoking groups over sport sponsorships, smoking in public and advertising bans. It’s tempting […]