Nosimilo Ndlovu
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/ 25 October 2007

Rural investment

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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/ 29 August 2007

Banking on people

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.

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/ 10 August 2007

A floodgate for illegal immigrants

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

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/ 7 April 2000

Getting behind the news like never before

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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/ 15 January 1999

Mugabe tightens his grip on the media

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

Where there’s smoke, there’s money

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 […]