With five more weekly newsletters to go, and just a few more sleeps until you find yourself pushing and shoving in a crowded shopping mall searching for that one last gift, the news flow is yet to slow! All
26 of our industry newsletters are jam-packed with what's what with the who's who.
The annual
Checkers/Shoprite Toy 4 Toy campaign launched this week, so if you have any new or used toys laying about that little Susie's outgrown, why not donate them to a less fortunate child. The campaign runs until early December.
After Randall Abrahams handed over the SAMA CEO baton to Nlanhla Sibisi, the
2013 MTN South African Music Awards is now open for entries. Look out for a few category changes here and there, and have your entries in by 30 November 2012. As my father recites whenever buying his
tata ma chance ticket, you have to be in it, to win it...
Still on the topic of winning, well done to the KZN-based African Centre for Crop Improvement for
scoring its first award! Conferred by A Green Revolution for Africa for "exceptional contributions to food security in Africa", the ACCI received its award from Nobel peace prize laureate Kofi Annan.
Lastly, in an endeavour to keep our coasts clean and our marine life protected, the Western, Northern and Eastern Cape coasts will soon have
bins in which fishermen can discard broken or used line. The project, successfully implemented along the Overberg's Gansbaai shoreline, uses PVC pipe as bins for fishing line. According to John Kieser, sustainability manager of Plastics|SA, the project has received plenty of support from the public and fishermen have also welcomed the initiative. Well done to all involved!
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In a move to boost financial literacy in Africa, Visa announced the launch of its new website, Africamoneyskills.com. In sub-Saharan Africa 80% of the adult population, or 325 million people, remain financially unserved, as compared to only 8% in high income Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development countries, according to the Financial Access initiative. 
The Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB), the international financial planning standards-setting body to which The Financial Planning Institute is affiliated, has been approved as an affiliate member of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). 
Embattled budget airline 1time on Friday filed for liquidation and immediately grounded all its flights. 
Mondi says that its underlying operating profit for the third quarter ending September was €135m‚ in line with that of the comparable period last year but lower than the €150m in the second quarter. 
Market share gains in South Africa as well as a strong performance from its African operations boosted Shoprite's turnover by 15.6% in the first quarter‚ the company said in a trading update yesterday. 
Expenditure by South African households has increased by 24.6% between the years of 2005/2006 and 2010/2011, the Income and Expenditure Survey (IES) of 2010/2011 has found. 
At the annual general meeting last week Capevin shareholders were told that licensing agreements involving some of the best-known global spirits brands would preclude collapsing the shareholding structure. 
The e-tag system will be rolled out at toll plazas in provinces other than Gauteng, Sanral said on Wednesday. 
The Tax Administration Act (Act 28 of 2011) took effect from 1 October, apart from certain provisions relating to interest, which will take effect from a date still to be determined. According to the SARS Short Guide to the Tax Administration Act, the Act "aims to simplify and consolidate, into one Act, a more logical and systematic way of dealing with the tax administration law. 
Standard Bank has lost another key executive, Craig Bond, to Absa as the Africa expansion strategies of both banks gain momentum. 
An information technology contract worth R23m, awarded by the Gauteng finance department, is under investigation by the Hawks, according to the Sunday Independent. 
