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Neil Roets As credit bureaus now carry much less information about indebted consumers, due to the new dti regulations, it is incumbent upon consumers to do their own credit assessment to see whether they can afford additional debt. Read more >> | Gareth Pearson World Entrepreneurship Day takes place tomorrow, 21 August 2014, and is a time for South Africans to review how we facilitate, nurture and encourage entrepreneurship. Read more >> | A 20% tax on sugar-sweetened drinks could cut the number of obese South Africans by almost a quarter of a million, saving lives and money, local research has found. Read more >> |
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 | Gillian Jones Financial services company Clientele grew its new business to what it says was a record level of R638.2m for the full year to June‚ in a tough economic climate. read more>> | | |
 | Growthpoint Properties has begun its R33-million worth of refurbishment to Rustenburg's Waterfall Mall, scheduled to be complete by December this year. read more>> | | |
 | Issued by Rentokil Initial Initial South Africa is pleased to announce the launch of a new hand dryer to the South African market; the Dyson Airblade V available through Initial... read more>> | | |
 | Mark Allix Metair‚ a manufacturer and distributor of mainly automotive products‚ saw its Mutlu Akü vehicle and industrial battery company in Turkey significantly bolster group revenue for the six months to June. read more>> | |  | Two of the four tyre recycling depots planned for the Eastern Cape this year are already operating under the Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of SA (Redisa). read more>> | | |
 | New research released yesterday by InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) reveals that of more than 10,000 travellers across 13 countries worldwide, nearly 40% pack their smartphone in their suitcases and 67% agree that they will use it every single day. As a result, 1 in 10 travellers clock an average of 70 hours online while on holiday - almost 20% of the actual time spent on a two-week holiday. read more>> | | |
 | Tune in to the Biz Takeouts Marketing & Media radio show tomorrow from 9am-10am. We take a look at recent Generation Y research by Cosmopolitan, why Millenials matter, and we chat to Utopian Advertising in our agency focus slot... read more>> | | |
 | Jessica Taylor While the concept of a mobile nail technician is nothing new, a business that manages a 'skulk' of them is. Tové de Chazal and Emma Gallo have hit the nail on the head with the launch of FoxBox - a mobile nail service offering treatments in the corporate space and more recently, your home. read more>> | | |
 | The new waterproof smartphone, Sony Xperia M2 Aqua, will be out in the fourth quarter of 2014 in South Africa, just in time for December holidays. It allows users to snap photos in and out of the water with an 8MP camera and the company's suite of Xperia camera apps. read more>> | | |  | EDINBURGH, UK: Young Scots aged between 16 and 17 are getting the vote in Scotland's independence referendum but the so-called 'selfie generation' looks set to reject separation. read more>> | |  | TOKYO, JAPAN: Robin Williams fans are asking Nintendo to name a character in the next instalment of its popular "Legend of Zelda" series after the Oscar-winning actor, who died last week. read more>> | |  | PARIS, FRANCE: Europe is launching two new satellites this week to boost its Galileo navigation system. Once in orbit Galileo will have six satellites orbiting the Earth. read more>> | |  | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Google has confirmed it has bought the start-up company responsible for creating Jetpac, a mobile application that provides travel guides by analysing photographs from social networks such as Instagram. read more>> | |  | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Microsoft's former Chief Executive Steven Ballmer has stepped down as a member of the company's board of directors. read more>> | |  | SAN JOSE, US: The global marketing economy is robust and picking up pace, according to the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council's eighth 'State of Marketing' report, just released... read more>> | | | More International | |
|  | 'I'm happy I started my business under apartheid' - Herman Mashaba at Accelerate Cape Town AGM. read more>> | |  | The Department of Home Affairs has welcomed the conviction and sentence handed to Sanele Zungu, a former senior administration officer at the Melmoth Local Office of the department in KwaZulu-Natal. read more>> | |  | Public Service and Administration Minister Collins Chabane says the public sector must challenge itself to be creative and embrace innovation as a new way of doing government business more smartly and delivering its services. read more>> | |  | NEWSWATCH: The Democratic Alliance's court bid to have SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng dismissed 'shames' him and the SABC, according to his lawyer, reports BD Live. Other reports follow... read more>> | |  | The Minister of Communications, Faith Muthambi, says South Africa's tourism sector is not under threat from the Ebola Virus Disease even though a number of Asian visitors have cancelled planned trips to this country read more>> | | | More Government news | |
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