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/ 23 November 2007
Low-cost airline Kulula will no longer carry <i>Maverick</i> magazine on its flights, cutting the business monthly’s total circulation by about 66 percent. Kulula marketing manager Nadine Damen said their research showed passengers preferred to read their in-flight magazine Comic Life.
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/ 23 November 2007
Mutual & Federal is putting some auto-body repairers’ noses out of joint in an attempt to deal with corruption from rogue operators that could be costing insurers billions. Recently the National Guild of Auto-Body Repairers marched from Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown, Johannesburg, to Mutual & Federal’s head office in the city centre to protest against "unfair" contracts it claims members are being forced to sign.
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/ 23 November 2007
The unbanning of the ANC, the return of its leaders from exile and the dawn of democracy marked a reversal of migration patterns. Until then apartheid South Africa experienced tens of thousands of its people going into exile, but post-1994 saw the country becoming home to exiled organisations fighting for autonomy, freedom, democracy and separate states.
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/ 23 November 2007
The rise of Facebook has introduced many social etiquette dilemmas to the world. I mean, how do you tell that guy from school that you weren’t friends back in the day, that nothing has changed, or your ex that you don’t want to see her again, not even in digital form. If these are some of the issues you are grappling with, then welcome to Hatebook.
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/ 23 November 2007
Two more senior officials within the Department of Labour are being ”forced” to vacate their positions following the department’s disastrous performance in the past three years. Masodi Xaba, the deputy director general responsible for corporate services, and chief financial officer Chris van der Merwe have resigned.
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/ 23 November 2007
Thomas Jefferson, the United States’s third president, was a man of many accomplishments: architect, ambassador, author of the Declaration of Independence. But one coveted title eluded him: winemaker. More than 200 years later, Marilyn Lasserre, a 31-year-old vintner from Dax in France’s Bordeaux region, is helping to bring Jefferson’s dream to fruition and put his native state of Virginia on the wine map.
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/ 23 November 2007
With the African National Congress’s (ANC) elective conference a few weeks away, allegations are doing the rounds that those with deep pockets are using their money to sway voting delegates. This issue has come up on the fringes of the recent meeting of the national executive committee.
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/ 23 November 2007
Beowulf, the animated adaptation of the Old English epic poem, is causing a fair amount of overheated excitement in Hollywood.
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/ 23 November 2007
With weeks to go before the ANC national conference, Cosatu has toned down its radical rhetoric against alliance partner ANC. After its central executive committee meeting this week, the trade federation tabled policy proposals about socio-economic matters that it believes the ANC should consider at the conference.
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/ 23 November 2007
Fired Rapport columnist Deon Maas slays holy Afrikaner cows with the skill of an abattoir boss, but that is not to say the cows will not put up a fight. And some especially vicious ones bite back, as Maas found out last week. Recently Maas still exhibited the scars from his fight with Rapport readers, which ultimately led to his dismissal.