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[Debbie Hathway] Crazy Little Thing is a musical theatre production devised by Anton Luitingh and Duane Alexander for The Cape Academy of Performing Arts (CAPA). It showcases a talented group of young students, who academy director Debbie Turner hopes will put CAPA on the map as a musical theatre institution. |
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[Gill Moodie] Trevor Ncube, the owner of the Mail & Guardian newspaper, has leaped back into the brave new world that is Zimbabwe today with a new daily newspaper, NewsDay. The Zimbabwean publisher and entrepreneur, who remained a thorn in Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe's side with his two weekly newspapers even after he left Zimbabwe, talks to Bizcommunity.com about the business of launching a paper in a wrecked economy. |
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[Nick Said] And so the dream comes to an end, not with a dispiriting defeat, but rather a morale-boosting win that should at least bode well for the short-term future of South African football. |
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[Herman Manson] Research on South African audience figures for the opening matches of the 2010 FIFA (Don't you dare wear Orange!) World Cup, conducted by audience measurement company Nielsen, reveal that while South African TV viewers were enchanted by Bafana Bafana, interest dropped significantly for follow-up matches. |
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[Nick Said] It has been some World Cup so far hasn't it? Forget what has been happening on the pitch, we have had bust-ups with players and coaches, bust-ins with fans in dressing-room, 'discussions' over the ball and vuvuzelas, and now finally ... finally ... somebody has been given a damn good thrashing. |
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 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [Chris Moerdyk] Some South Africans have made some good profits out of the 2010 World Cup so far but others have missed out completely. And the difference is all about one of the most important components of marketing - pricing...
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[Brian Berkman] Andrew Moth is editor of Hotel & Restaurant Magazine and he has some views on the good and the not so good when it comes to hotels - and he has a thing or two to say about soap. |
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[Douglas Kruger] It's about as much fun as making love to an unresponsive partner. Dead audiences. You sing, you dance, you juggle; they sit and stare. Some of them just think of England. What can you do to stop the life draining out of the room? How can you avoid that sinking sensation in your stomach every time they switch off? |
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[Henrie Geyser] For the second year running, Mercedes-Benz South Africa's (MBSA) manufacturing plant in East London has received a top award in the J.D. Power and Associates US Initial Quality Study (IQS) - this time outdoing its own earlier achievement to receive the Platinum Plant Quality Award. |
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[Brian Berkman] Franschhoek establishments take their French connection very seriously. Perhaps none more than the Franschhoek Country House & Villas that have created a Francophile's folly with fountains, lavender hedges and wrought-iron archways. This is a model for the French-country look and given the main house's historic use as a perfumery, not entirely inauthentic. |
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[Sindy Peters] We met DJ JB Intl about a year ago and since then his career and swifly taken off to grand new heights. The Cape Town music-maker has signed a five-year two album and distribution deal with Crownn Records in Berlin, Germany after being discovered on his social media pages by Jerome Bo Fitts, A&R manager of Crownn Records and founder of Bofi Clothing. |
 | If I walk into a soccer stadium wearing name brand clothes I paid for, does that mean I can be arrested? This is the most ridiculous case I have ever heard besides when Fifa wanted Ferrari to take down a sign they had had up for 40 years and Ferrari threatened to leave Germany..Fifa is a money grabbing enterprise aimed at robbing the country that hosts its events...it does not support local business but charges an arm and a leg...I say if we have spent 4 billion on hosting this fiasco, anyone anywhere should be able to advertise and their basic human right to freedom of speech should not be encroached upon! |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA [Mandy de Waal] The Star, The Daily News, Cape Times, Pretoria News, Cape Argus and most other titles in the Independent News & Media (INM) stable literally took their tabloids online as an added-value proposition for subscribers. The result is an exact page-by-page replica of the print title that is both cumbersome and unwieldy to navigate or read. Experts describe the move as "outdated", "confused" and a "recipe for disaster". |
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[Issa Sikiti da Silva] Dutch brewery Bavaria has done what it did at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany: advertise its brand 'illegally' despite knowing very well that the practice amounts to ambush marketing. While in Germany, its 'marketers' did escape the long arm of the law, but this year in South Africa two Dutch women involved in the controversial marketing campaign were arrested, named and shamed. |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [Duncan McLeod] The high price of set-top boxes and digital receivers appears to have had a marked impact on the take-up of digital terrestrial television in Brazil, a new SA-commissioned report has found.
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