The government can improve small businesses’ success by providing training in the specific entrepreneurial skills they need rather than training in general skills or technical management, according to research by the University of the Western Cape (UWC).
United States and British commanders have changed their tactics on the ground in Iraq to tackle paramilitary militias across the south before the assault on Baghdad, senior military sources said this week.
In times of strife, it is good to know who your friends are. So, in the absence of support from traditional allies such as France and Germany, it will come as welcome news to British troops in the Gulf this week that when the going gets tough, Azerbaijan is right behind them.
The landscape after the battle, in a conquered country, does not smile on a warm morning of freedom. Instead, there begins a rat-infested twilight, and many of the rats are human.
They call themselves the ”awkward squad” and their questions to the generals running the war in Iraq are starting to divide the sceptical press from their more loyal United States colleagues.
The first attempt to deliver aid to the Iraqi people was, in all respects, a practical and logistical disaster.
Klipdrift and Monty Python fuelled one of Lemmer’s rooinek chommies in his creative tribute to this week’s dizzy political shenanigans. Disgruntled Voter (DV) walks into a New National Party office in the evening on polling day, 2004. An NNP worker (NNPW) is at the front desk, looking distraught…
Baggage, the psychological debris that we accumulate and carry through our lives, is the great emotional bogeyman. Our baggage defines us. It is the past that shapes our futures.
It is unlikely, argues Martin Woollacott, that Bush’s military pre-emptive doctrine will be acceptable in other situations.
Several hundred Iraqis have fled their homes to escape the conflict and Iraqi officials say 350 people have died in air raids since the start of the war.