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/ 5 September 2005
The Singita Group’s social responsibility and community development programmes are carried out quietly and without any fuss. In a similar fashion, when the private game reserve and its collection of award-winning luxury lodges applied for Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa certification, there was no trumpet-blowing.
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/ 5 September 2005
It was announced today that Media24’s financial weeklies, <i>Finance Week</i> and <i>Finansies & Tegniek</i>, will be consolidated under one brand from September 28. The new brand, <i>Finweek</i>, will be published in both English and Afrikaans and will be merged with online financial portal Finance24, which will be rebranded Fin24.co.za.
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/ 5 September 2005
Petrol would be on sale tomorrow at a saving of up to 35c a litre if Kempton Park garage owner Dean Grant could get his way. Grant, at the forefront of discounting diesel for the past 18 months, offers discounts of between 27c and 30c a litre. Grant is able to do this because the retail price of diesel, unlike petrol, is deregulated.
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/ 5 September 2005
It’s been proven true again. It is possible to bring Johannesburg’s notorious, downtown Newtown area back to life — as long as it’s night-time, and as long as there is a party. Last weekend saw a blast of sound in several interconnected venues.
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/ 5 September 2005
When human rights advocate Greg Moran opened the African Toyshop earlier this year, his aim was clear: to use the principles of fair trade to help African crafters make a decent living through their skills. Six months on and he is satisfied that the project is bearing the kinds of fruit he had in mind.
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/ 5 September 2005
Those who argue that pale males are no more useful in the new South Africa than an evolutionary throwback with no discernible function could do well to consider the case of MTN’s Robert Nesbit. The company’s financial director is one of a small coterie of white South Africans who have grown spectacularly rich as empowerment beneficiaries.
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/ 5 September 2005
Namibia’s latest financial investment scandal has claimed a Cabinet scalp. Paulus Kapia, the Deputy Minister of Works, Transport and Communication, who only a few months ago was the most favoured foot soldier of former state President Sam Nujoma, has resigned over his role in an asset management company linked to the embezzlement of a R30-million investment of the Social Security Commission.
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/ 5 September 2005
The riddle over South Africa’s proposed loan to bail Zimbabwe out of trouble with the International Monetary Fund has become a mirror of the personality of President Thabo Mbeki. The outward image is not what is going on within, or behind the scenes. There is little doubt Mbeki — now six years into his 10-year presidency — wants Africa to succeed.
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/ 5 September 2005
It may sound melodramatic, but a moment’s thought will convince you that the following statement is true: one of the fundamental reasons for the economic failure of post-colonial Africa south of the Arabic zone is the fact that, with a few important exceptions, mother- tongue (home language) education is not practised in any of the independent African states.
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/ 5 September 2005
It is up to the African Union to decide when South Africa’s role as mediator in the Côte d’Ivoire conflict should end, Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota said on Monday. ”It is not for the parties in the Côte d’Ivoire conflict to decide when the mediation will end,” he told reporters in Pretoria.