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/ 12 July 2006

The happiness factor

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.

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/ 12 July 2006

Jihad on a G-string

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.

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/ 12 July 2006

Buying your first franchise

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?

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/ 12 July 2006

Same old story

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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/ 11 July 2006

SA outraged at Indian train blasts

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.

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/ 11 July 2006

Mumbai reels after deadly train blasts

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.

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/ 11 July 2006

Spain, US condemn ‘horrific’ Indian blasts

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.