Well, Mangaung has come and gone - as has the end of the world, the festive season and New Year, and we've survived them all and now we're back on stream with our newsletters.
Taking centre stage has been the
violent protests by farmworkers in the Western Cape. These protests need to be brought to an end; they're damaging Brand SA and have the potential to seriously curb exports (and hence foreign earnings) as customers overseas turn to more reliable suppliers.
On the education front, the
Matric pass rate increased to 73.9% but critics are asking whether a requirement of 30% to pass is enough to equip school-leavers with an adequate standard of education. Many employers reckon not - they're prepared to train new staff in the roles the new recruits will have to take up in the company - but those recruits need to be literate and enumerate to a level that will enable them to acquire and apply their new knowledge properly.
If you're in business, you're in IT... perhaps not directly, but every time you use a computer, you're operating within the IT world. So what are the
23 business attitudes to IT security you should be looking at? Kaspersky Lab research has some answers for you.
Finally, for all you petrol heads out there, our scorchingly good-looking motoring editor Henrie Geyser takes you for a drive in the
Mercedes SL 500 and shows off his tough, rugged side with the
Land Cruiser 70 double cab.
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Wastex Africa 2013 will be held from 29 to31 May, 2013, at the Gallagher Convention Centre, Joburg. All suppliers, stakeholders and industry players in the waste management and recycling, environmental protection and sustainability are invited to come and network, share experiences with and gain new insights from your industry peers from around the continent. 
The Black Eagle Project Roodekrans received R95,000 donation from the Silverstar Casino in late 2012. The casino is committed to supporting the environment and community of Mogale City. 
Tourism in Cape Town is reaping the benefits of its iconic landmark, Table Mountain, being named one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature, with latest figures showing that the mountain's cableway had a record-breaking holiday season. 
South Africa aims to have all households in the country's large centres separating their own waste into recyclable and non-recyclable material by 2016. 
A "special purpose vehicle" or company is likely to be set up by April and will be crucial to the success of the redevelopment of Cape Town's District Six, District Six Redevelopment and Beneficiary Trust chief executive Nas Allie said on Tuesday (8 January). 
Orwa, an orphaned elephant has been adopted through the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust last year by the staff at Jenman African Safaris. 
Where there's smoke, there's disease? They're little more than a pile of burning sticks with a stew pot atop them, but these open fires or basic cook stoves have been linked to the premature deaths of 4 million people annually, many of them young children, writes Cheryl Dybas, of the National Science Foundation. 
