On the horns of a dilemma
There are many measures the average South African would like to take to those poaching our rhinos in order to feed what most of us reckon is a pathetically primitive belief. Those measures might often include a quiet word with those found guilty with the aid of a baseball bat in a deserted building far, far away. That's all terribly illegal of course. However, one idea has seen a lot of support, and
poisoning rhino horn seems to be on the cards, but Helen Dagut asks, while it might be ethically defendable, is it legally questionable?
Still on the crime front, the FBI has listed South Africa as the sixth most active country where cyber crime takes place. No wonder then that a local law firm says
cyber crime is now a national crisis.
And on the legal front, Judge Albert Louis Sachs, the prominent anti-apartheid campaigner who was appointed by Nelson Mandela to sit on the Constitutional Court, has received a major award at the inaugural
African Legal Awards.
Feel like a career in the arts? If so,
applications are now open for the BASA intern programme.
All aboard-d-d-d-d... It's a case of
three cheers for an extended Gautrain - but don't expect to enjoy the extended service any time soon, it will probably take a few years before you and your mates can occupy "three chairs" on the extended Gautrain.
Rod Baker, Content Director
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 | Bekezela Phakathi First National Bank's eWallet continues to show strong growth in its African operations with a 119% year-on-year increase. It has also maintained growth in SA with the total number of eWallets in all countries reaching 2.5m‚ an 84% increase from the previous financial year. Read more >>
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 | The slow economic growth, as well as the risings costs are now being felt by South African consumers. Statistics released by the Spark Cash Index (SCI), which measures the average value of cash withdrawals across more than 2,200 Spark Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) throughout South Africa, showed a decrease in ATM withdrawal levels for September 2013. Read more >>
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 | Cyber crime is a national crisis costing the country a billion rand a year, a law firm said on Wednesday, 23 October. The FBI in the US listed South Africa as the sixth most active country where cyber crime took place. Read more >>
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 | A team of five students from the University of Cape Town (UCT) has won the South African leg of the 2013-2014 Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute Research Challenge, beating nine other local universities with their top-notch company analysis. Read more >>
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 | Nick Hedley Fitch Ratings has revised the outlook of SABMiller's BBB+ long-term rating to positive from stable‚ and says the global brewing company's rating could be upgraded to A- by 2015. Read more >>
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 | The financial services industry, steered by the Financial Planning Institute (FPI), will embark on its annual Financial Planning Week campaign from 25-29 November 2013. Read more >>
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 | 'Savings Matters', a radio drama series currently being broadcast across a number of community radio stations is urging South Africans not to forget the importance of saving and to plan properly for their financial future. Read more >>
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 | Fast food group Famous Brands reported a 20% increase in headline earnings per share to 180c for the six months to August. Read more >>
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 | Shoprite Holdings‚ Africa's biggest retail group‚ reported that its turnover had increased by 10.2% in the three months to September. Read more >>
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 | Larry Claasen Telkom's shares fell sharply on the news that its chief financial officer‚ Jacques Schindehütte‚ was suspended‚ following a probe by an independent law firm into unspecified allegations against him. Read more >>
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 | Andrew Johnstone, CEO at African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM), Macquarie, and Ziad Oueslati, founding partner of AfricInvest-TunInvest Group, have been appointed as members of the Board of Directors of the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA). Read more >>
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 | The vision to invest in the development of affordable housing in Africa is starting to pay off handsomely for pioneer private equity investors. Read more >>
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 | Government's plan to slash official perks is a welcome development but more needs to be done to ensure tax money stays in the country, the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) said last week. Read more >>
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 | Tamar Kahn The Treasury's discussion document on financing options for the National Health Insurance (NHI) is a year-and-a-half late‚ but it is "nearly ready" ‚ according to director-general Lungisa Fuzile. Read more >>
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 | It was unfortunate that suspended Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi discussed his tax affairs on social networking platforms, the SA Revenue Service (SARS) said. Read more >>
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 | STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN: Swedish industrial heavyweights Volvo trucks and Electrolux announced a total of 4,000 job cuts around the world on Friday when they published disappointing figures for the third quarter. Read more >>
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 | Amanda Visser Tax revenue collections showed resilience‚ despite weaker than expected economic growth in 2013‚ Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan remarked in the medium-term budget statement (MTBPS). Read more >>
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