 | AUTOMOTIVE  [Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] The Chinese carmakers have negotiated the twisty bits of the difficult circuit and are now entering the main straight in the race for South African car-buyers' hearts and wallets - clearly illustrated by the newly-launched Geely Emgrand EC7.
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 | FINANCE & INSURANCE [Paddy Hartdegen] Maybe, at 46, he's just read Erica Jong's "Fear of Flying" and decided that what she says is true: So he's changing his life quitting First National Bank (FNB) and exploring new, more exciting and more rewarding challenges. |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA [Anton Harber] Dr Iqbal Survé is being secretive about his consortium's purchase of Independent News and Media, and this is starting to sour his arrival in the news industry. |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Jeremy Clarkson done it again, this time on the subject of babies and aircraft, reports IOL, and we have a couple of YouTube videos, one courtesy The Citizen, for you on close encounters of a different kind - including a demonstration that elephants break windows, and booze and these giants are not a good mix (video).
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 | MARKETING & MEDIA [Justin Lee] In this article, the second in a series of four articles where we explore how the use of mobile devices by employees in businesses represents the convergence of personal and corporate needs, we will examine the behavioural patterns of mobile users, in order to truly understand the mobile risks associated. |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA [Yaron Assabi] While over the years the main objective of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - customer retention - hasn't changed, it must be said that the strategic implementation and platforms certainly continue to evolve, as they should, and today mobility is driving this evolution. |
 | LIFESTYLE  [Daniel Dercksen] True talent is priceless and with the magnificent independent Australian film The Sapphires, the voices and lives of four gutsy young Australian Aboriginal women will live in your hearts forever.
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 | MARKETING & MEDIA [Ashley Truscott] In the past two weeks I have received numerous unsolicited text messages and emails. What boggles my mind is how the organisations (or individuals) who have been trying to communicate with me have got it so horribly wrong, because they clearly didn't research their target audience. |
| AUTOMOTIVE  [Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] The Consumer Protection Act (CPA), which came into effect in April 2008, has far-reaching implications for vehicle buyers, particularly those interested in acquiring a used vehicle, yet there still is a lot of ignorance around with buyers being taken for a ride because they don't know their own rights.
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| MARKETING & MEDIA  [Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Communications Minister Dina Pule wants to be in on SABC board appointments, reports Mail & Guardian, which also reports that both the ANC and the DA are upset over a BBC programme on the plight of SA whites. MyBroadband reports on the hack attack on the SAPS website, and the SABC says that TV and radio presenter Vuyo Mbuli will be given a provincial official funeral.
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 | MARKETING & MEDIA [Candace McDonald] According to John Quincy Adams "if your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader". And let's face it, good leadership is crucial to the success of any business. |
 | TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY  [Brian Berkman] Not often a product comes along that does everything you want it to and then a whole lot more you did not know you wanted.
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 | IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS [Paul Fick] Cloud services and hosted services have been talked about for many years, but only recently, since bandwidth has become more available and affordable, have they become a viable option in South Africa. |
 | HUMAN RESOURCES & RECRUITMENT [Kay Vittee] It's not what you know, it's who you know is a phrase we often hear and use when referring to getting that proverbial foot in the door of a business, either in terms of finding employment or forging business partnerships. |
 | LEGAL [Graeme Palmer] The South African Revenue Services (SARS) may raise understatement penalties if prejudice has been caused to them or the fiscus. Penalties can be imposed at 25% or 50% in the case of a "substantial understatement". |
 | FINANCE & INSURANCE [David Crosoer] The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) expects CPI inflation to average 6.3% in the third quarter of 2013, before returning to the targeted 3% to 6% band in the fourth quarter. In the previous two inflation cycles (see chart below), the SARB started to increase interest rates when inflation exceeded 5%. |
 | HUMAN RESOURCES & RECRUITMENT  [Su-Mari Du Bruyn] Too often we find that someone is appointed to a specific position, shown how the system works and then left to his own accord - that is it. Then, later when things go wrong, other people in the organisation are very surprised to learn that this individual gave poor customer service or does not know the first thing about the email program that he must use, for example.
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