 | HUMAN RESOURCES & MANAGEMENT  [Paddy Hartdegen] I never know whether it's safe to trust opinions or commentaries from unions in South Africa because I always suspect that there is probably a hidden agenda somewhere.
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 | MARKETING & MEDIA
[Daniel Marcus] In recent years, the South African conference industry has had a fall from grace in respect to content and organisation. Poor websites, generic information and ill-informed, badly briefed spokespeople have dominated the arena. |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [Marion Scher] When was the last time we made world headlines for something good? Certainly not recently. Front pages worldwide have been covered in Oscar stories, mostly centred as in Time Magazine, on South Africa as the murder capital of the world.
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 | LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
[Eugene Yiga] Following its Australian debut in 1995, Tap Dogs has performed in front of more than 12 million people in more than 300 cities around the world. Now, after multiple awards (and an appearance at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in 2000, which was televised to more than half the planet) the guys are tapping up a storm in Cape Town. |
 | AUTOMOTIVE
[Henrie Geyser] Suzuki's cute little go-anywhere Jimny has been given a few extra touches of war paint and the living quarters have also been made a bit more comfortable and practical to give its growing popularity a further boost. |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: TopTV will be trying again today to get the go-ahead to flight porn, reports ITWeb, and David Bullard, writing in Politicsweb, reckons it's about time the ANC stopped using the SABC as a 'parking bay' for unwanted cadres. Finally, CNET reports Google is being begged to save its Reader service. |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [William Smook] How do you get to be a noteworthy South African? Well one way, if you're listed on Who's Who of Southern Africa, is to die an untimely death. Here's how it works...
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 | PROPERTY & REAL ESTATE  [Michelle Dickens] The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) has approved an 8% increase in electricity costs, agreeably not the 16% requested by Eskom, but nevertheless a figure still above inflation. However, when viewed against the previous 25% per annum increases, is this lower increase a little bit too late for most consumers?
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 | LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
[Johann M. Smith] Last year, Bizcommunity interviewed editor-in-chief Miles Keylock on the exciting launch of Rolling Stone SA. Some questions remained unanswered and others have only come to the fore very recently. The debate regarding the ongoing success of RS SA remains a nail-biting affair - the opinions are as clouded as the future of print media remains a hotly contested debate. |
| LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
[Eugene Yiga] So, you think that you can love? That's the question that award-winning actress and comedienne Sonia Esgueira asks in her new one-woman show. Directed by John Trengove, it explores the ups and downs of love, relationships, and everything else that we encounter on the road to happily ever after. |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA
[Travis Brown] Gone are the days when mall activations featured pretty girls handing out coffee. These days we're conceptualising and executing 360-degree, fully integrated campaigns that also often utilise the expertise of our sister businesses, providing clients with a fully integrated offering. |
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[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Inkatha Freedom Party MP, Liezl van der Merwe, has warned that if the SABC does not clean up its act, it could well face a revolt from licence-payers, reports news24, which also reports on a stream of tributes following the death of well-known journalist Mandy Rossouw. And the mystery around that website deepens, reports M&G. |
 | PROPERTY & REAL ESTATE
[Tony Clarke] In the South African property sector, there is a growing interest in buy-to-let property investment right now - and this makes good sense because the advantages of this type of investment far outweigh its disadvantages. |
 | LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
[Nina Timm] Home-made yoghurt - why would anyone want to make it if the shelves are filled with all sorts of yoghurt? Low-fat, full cream, low sugar, real fruit, flavoured - phew, the choices are endless. |
| AUTOMOTIVE
[Henrie Geyser] Who said Italians are only good at making small silly cars and sporty machines with macho looks and muscular performance? To prove them wrong Fiat has just launched its rather-off-the wall Qubo which is tailor-made to fit young small families. |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA
[Nicolle Harding] Working through a list of thousands of individual sites to evaluate their content and context for a good match to a brand could be time-consuming and counter-productive. Blind advertising can be an elegant solution. |
| PROPERTY & REAL ESTATE
[Michelle Dickens] When it comes to landlord-tenant disputes, interpreting legal obligations can be tricky. The varying nature of issues that might arise is endless in possibility, which means that there is no well-defined guideline as to how to handle a highly specific set of circumstances. |
| PROPERTY & REAL ESTATE
[Tony Clarke] Although it happens only rarely and the practice is not widespread, there are still some home sellers and buyers who, with the help of their agents, agree to "load" the sale price of the home being bought so as to make it possible for the buyer to qualify for a bond that is large enough to cover the deposit and the transfer fees. |
 | ENERGY & MINING
[John Capel] Women are still a minority in the mining sector and particularly in the lower paid categories. This imbalance creates conditions for sexual harassment and exploitation, and very little has been done to change the macho culture operating within the closed environment of a mine. |
 | LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
[Charles Siboto] I'm very excited today. It's the first time that I'm going to sit down to write a review for a movie that's rubbish for BizLounge. I should also put in from the outset that I actually liked it, though. A Good Day to Die Hard is a rubbish movie through and through! But it's a fun movie. |
