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 | Joan Muller The surprise claims that empowerment fund Ascension Properties has signed agreements to sell its management company simultaneously to Rebosis Property Fund and Delta Property Fund‚ without either of the buyers knowing about the other has left property analysts stunned. Read more >>
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 | Adele Shevel Mention the company Cash Converters and the response is usually: "Doesn't it sell second-hand goods and aren't most of the products it sells stolen?" Read more >>
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 | Linda Ensor The banking industry's plea to be able to apply its own affordability assessments to its customers has fallen on deaf ears‚ as the Department of Trade and Industry says this system has failed to curb reckless lending and mounting over-indebtedness. Read more >>
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 | While audits across national government departments and public entities improved in the 2012/13 financial year there were still billions of rand being wasted or spent irregularly‚ Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, 5 February. Read more >>
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 | Tiffany Conley In the words of the famous fashion designer, Coco Chanel, "In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different". But exactly, how different does one need to be? Our personal names (meaning, our full names i.e. John Smith) define us from the day that we are born so, logically, we believe that our names are our brands, and that we are naturally entitled to benefit from them commercially and otherwise. Read more >>
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 | North West Premier Thandi Modise has condemned the alleged killing of three people, whose properties were also torched at the Freedom Park informal settlement in Rustenburg. Read more >>
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 | The Gauteng Government has formed a high-level task team to urgently address violent protests in the province following an upsurge of violent service delivery protests in the last few weeks. Read more >>
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 | The seven people, who were arrested in connection with damaging of election material, are due to appear in the Taung Magistrates Court today. Read more >>
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 | The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) reported to Parliament on Tuesday (4 February) about how students who do not need financial support defraud the scheme, with many signing affidavits to declare that their parents are dead. Read more >>
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 | Ingrid Barbara Lewin: BA (Wits), LLB (Natal) Public Service managers and supervisors must understand service delivery policies, procedures and case law to be effective. Read more >>
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 | SABC acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng is on a mission to rid the corporation of freelance presenters and staff members are walking on egg shells, according to insiders. Read more >>
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 | Ed Herbst "The senior management at the SABC couldn't even be bothered to do the numeracy test that was required for a proper skills assessment. The entire senior management of the SABC is in a dire, dire state." Marian Shinn, Parliament 4 February 2005 Read more >>
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 | The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) and SABC Education radio campaign, Make Your Rights Work for You, continues live on air on 11 community radio stations. The focus of the campaign is to promote awareness of workplace rights and how best to apply them. Read more >>
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 | International law firm Hogan Lovells has announced that its first business services centre will be in the same building in Johannesburg as the firm's new South African office. Hogan Lovells combined with law firm Routledge Modise at the beginning of December 2013. Read more >>
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 | TAIPEI, TAIWAN: Taiwan's smartphone manufacturer HTC said it signed a patent and technology collaboration agreement with Finnish phone company Nokia to end all pending patent litigation between them. Read more >>
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 | BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: Turkey's new Internet law raises "serious concerns" over government control and the public's access to information, the European Commission said on Thursday (6 February). Read more >>
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 | PRETORIA: Efforts by the SA Social Security Agency (SASSA) to clamp down on social grant fraud are yielding positive results, with the agency saving R150m a year. Read more >>
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 | PRETORIA: President Jacob Zuma has ordered the Special Investigative Unit (SIU) to probe alleged irregularities in the affairs of the South African Post Office (SAPO). Read more >>
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