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/ 31 October 2007
The Gautrain is South Africa’s biggest and most ambitious public transport project yet. Once it is completed, Pretoria, Johannesburg and OR Tambo airport will be linked via 80km of rail, some of it underground, and 10 new stations. The link between the airport and Sandton will be completed in time for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
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/ 31 October 2007
Business tycoon Tokyo Sexwale’s Mvelaphanda Group will buy up to 30 percent of Johnnic Communication’s media unit in a R1.4-billion deal, a Sens announcement said on Tuesday.
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/ 31 October 2007
Scientists warned this week that global warming will be "stronger than expected and sooner than expected", after a new analysis showed carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere much faster than predicted. Experts said the rise was caused by soaring economic development in China, and a reduction in the amount of carbon pollution soaked up by the world’s land and oceans.
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/ 31 October 2007
For those who take their lead from the old ideologies that sought to shape this country and failed so abysmally, the very idea of a Black Management Forum was and remains a cheeky notion — for blacks can only be drawers of water and hewers of wood. If black management generically were to fail, that Verwoerdian postulation would rise triumphantly from the graveyard of racial ideology, writes Bheki Khumalo.
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/ 31 October 2007
We read often about the skills revolution initiated by the democratic government in South Africa since 1994. And, 13 years into democracy, it is important to revisit the notion and see where and whether the revolution has taken place. Careful analysis of South Africa’s human resource development strategy shows that in many respects it is one of the most ambitious and best of any country in the world.
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/ 31 October 2007
As is the case elsewhere in the world, South Africans who are materially better off report relatively greater levels of subjective well-being. But while marriage is a recipe for higher levels of happiness in the industrialised world, empirical research suggests that marital status plays no significant role in influencing South Africans’ happiness levels.
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/ 31 October 2007
Waterless or composting toilets are being touted as a promising solution to many of South Africa’s sanitation woes.Just less than 14-million of the country’s citizens lack access to sanitation and about 200 000 households are reliant on the bucket system. As more demands are placed on national water resources, it appears increasingly unlikely that homes without sanitation will be able to receive the popular flush toilet
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/ 31 October 2007
Almost 80% of learners who registered for sector education and training authority learnerships did not finish their training courses, according to the department of labour’s latest implementation report on skills development. The report, released for the first time during last week’s national skills development conference, shows that only 16 507 out of 87 687 of the registered learners, mostly unemployed youth, completed their training from April 2005 to March 2007.
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/ 31 October 2007
Information technology has lived through hardware wars, software wars, operating system wars, browser wars and is now preparing for a new one. The spoils in this battle are your documents. As an increasing number of users are turning to the web for Microsoft Office-type capabilities, but without the Microsoft Office price tag, a battle is being waged to provide these services — and more.
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/ 31 October 2007
The Big Game was a victory for The Real Man and a crushing defeat for the illusion that we will ever admire anything as much as a good bit of bone-crunching. Sure, we’ll nod and smile in the general direction of the man wearing the Amanda Laird Cherry shirt and the baby carrier. Even rugby players appear in <i>GQ</i> and <i>Cosmo</i> Man spreads, wearing fine suits and not running into one another.