Richard Reeves is a business analyst and co-founder of Intelligence Agency, an ideas consultancy. One of his biggest-selling ideas is happiness — or, as some would put it, “joyology”. Reeves was a member of the team that recently set itself the heroic task of bringing happiness to the English town of Slough, as a BBC TV experiment.
Dubya couldn’t have been very happy when he was told his nemesis may have gone out smiling. Freshly satiated with an alcohol-free nightcap, Psalm 23 at his side, and about to lay his head next to Laura’s on his all-natural Martha Stewart buckwheat pillow, who would blame the plaid pyjama president of the world superpower for feeling a tad envious.
Forty-three years after her death, a transcript surfaced recently purporting to be Marilyn Monroe’s words to her psychiatrist in the months before her death, Dan Glaister reports.
With eight million people seeking employment, small business is going to be one of the ways to reduce unemployment in South Africa. It’s for this reason that the government is focusing on developing a culture of small business. But starting your own business can be a daunting task — where do you begin?
Kwanele Sosibo speaks to Lebo Motshegoa about his s’camtho dictionary Township Talk, a fun and somewhat gimmicky, update of a constantly evolving tsotsitaal.
It would seem there are many who are not tired of the same old story, of flamboyant gangsters, alcoholic yet talented Drum journalists,forced removals, tsotsitaal and marabi music, associated with Sophiatown, writes Sabata-Mpho Mokae.
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South Africa has expressed outrage at the series of bomb blasts that killed at least 163 people and wounded 464 more on the rail network in Mumbai, India, on Tuesday. ”We express our confidence that the Indian authorities will ensure that those responsible will face the consequences of their own actions,” President Thabo Mbeki said.
Seven explosions ripped through commuter trains and stations during evening rush hour in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, on Tuesday, killing at least 163 people and wounding 464 in an attack blamed on terrorists. Ambulances raced to hospitals with what seemed to be an endless number of the injured and the dead.
New York reinforced security on the city’s vast public transit network on Tuesday in response to deadly bomb attacks on commuter trains in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, as United States officials condemned the "horrific" blasts. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero expressed his "profound sadness" to his Indian counterpart.