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/ 19 February 2008
The Spice Girls would love to perform for former South African president Nelson Mandela, but said on Monday they had not yet been formally asked to be part of his planned 90th birthday celebrations in June. The Spice Girls met Mandela in 1997 when he invited them to his Pretoria residence for a chat and photos.
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/ 19 February 2008
Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton traded charges on Monday over Obama’s uncredited use of a friend’s lines in a speech, one day before the presidential contenders meet in a critical showdown in Wisconsin. Pointing toward Tuesday’s primary, the two camps battled over a recent Obama speech using words from Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.
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/ 19 February 2008
Sophie Gilbert thinks journalism as a university course is viewed less seriously in Britain than in the United States. So when she wanted to pursue a postgraduate degree, she enrolled at New York University. “Journalism is not ‘just’ a vocational postgraduate course [in the US],” says the 24-year-old former magazine journalist from London.
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/ 19 February 2008
Marketing is about strategically creating and maintaining a competitive advantage, producing a superior performance for your customers and company. But, our hyper-competitive world needs skilled, competent marketing leaders, so knowledge, aptitude and tactical skills are essential to your success as a professional marketer.
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/ 19 February 2008
Notwithstanding signs of increasing commitment by the state, many worries continue over the future of South Africa’s higher education system. The elephant in the room remains the fact that the system is not reproducing itself. Many whispers in the corners suggest that the system may now border on being unsustainable.
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/ 19 February 2008
The Wits Business School (WBS) continues to provide its students with unique opportunities to integrate their academic learning with real work experience. The school will offer its full-time students internship at prestigious organisations during their study programme.
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/ 19 February 2008
They treat their Nobel prize winners rather differently in the United States. Forty-five years after winning the Nobel prize — along with British scientists Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins — for discovering the structure of DNA, James “Jim” Watson is still regarded in the US as quasi-royalty.
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/ 19 February 2008
While many Iraqi professionals take advantage of the "brain drain" robbing the war-ravaged country of its best talent, one man has vowed to stand his ground and care for the brains that remain. With little money but a great deal of passion, Munir Faraj (40) is the last remaining neurosurgeon still working amid the chaos and sectarian barbarism that grips modern-day Iraq.
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/ 19 February 2008
Is there anything that has not yet been said or contested about skills shortages? Most literate South Africans are aware of the shortage of teachers, engineers, ICT professionals and artisans. Almost as many have some insight into strategies like Jipsa (through Asgisa), and the recapitalisation of the further education and training colleges.
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/ 19 February 2008
Can you draw? Do you have your matric? Can you communicate readily in English? Yes? Then you have the basic qualifications required to study in one of the most stimulating and interesting businesses in the world today: animation. Or do you want to make a career out of your communication skills? Then the powerful medium of radio could well be for you.