Top executive recruiters say the most common interview mistake is verbosity — candidates who talk too much, according to the results from a survey released this week.
Tony Blair is facing mounting pressure to urge President Bush to give the UN a greater role inside Iraq as a way of calming the security situation and indirectly helping ease the mounting political pressure over the government’s handling of the Iraq crisis.
Renewed fighting between rebels and government forces in Burundi erupted in the capital Bujumbura yesterday, leaving streets littered with bodies and doubts about a peace process intended to end almost 10 years of civil war.
The South African rand was steady against major currencies in late morning trade on Monday, ignoring a slightly softer euro to trade range bound in a quiet market characterised by small two-way interest.
The South African race-card entertainment industry is enjoying boom times. A glance through any local newspaper, a listen-in to talk-radio or a look-in at Parliament will offer up multiple and imaginative variations on the same simple theme: how, according to the dealers, racial prejudice infests every last nook and cranny of our lives.
While President Thabo Mbeki and President George W Bush were preparing to discuss the role of the world’s largest economy in the development of Africa last week, it emerged that Americans’ eating habits may well become a stumbling block on the road to a free-trade pact between the United States and Southern Africa.
In June, the Department of Education released its plan of action for improving access to free and quality basic education. In its earlier review of the financing, resourcing and costs of education in public schools, the department waxed lyrical about the so-called "right to pay school fees". The shift in rhetoric is remarkable. The shift in policy is not so spectacular.
Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana has called for farmers to ensure that better safety measures are in place after the work-related deaths of three farm workers over the past few days.
It is no exaggeration to say that the spectre of St Augustine hung residually over the recent Sex and Secrecy conference held at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
For the insatiable predator that is the advertising industry, children are the ultimate target. Young minds, not yet armoured by cynicism, are open to the flood of half-truths and outright lies that are the bedrock of selling. Catch them young, and you have loyal consumers for life.