We've launched five new newsletters, to bring you the latest news in your sector of interest - or even sectors of interest. The five new letters are CSI, Sport, Mining, Military & Security, and Building & Construction.
For example, in CSI, there's
still time to enter the rhino conservation mountain bike race and help raise awareness and boost the protection of one of our most iconic animals.
And on the military front, the
SA Army is battling to cope fulfilling its various commitments... obsolete equipment hampers operations when our troops on peace-keeping operations go up against heavily armed rebel armies.
When does negotiation cease being negotiation and become war and anarchy? Paddy Hartdegen reckons what happened at Lonmin shows what happens when
the boundaries are crossed.
He was the first man on the moon, but now Neil Armstrong,
US astronaut has died at the age of 82.
Closer to the earth, but still in the air,
1Time has got a business rescue. That's good news, the more competition there is, anywhere in commerce and industry, the better it is for us, the consumer.
Finally, Jimmy Manyi is no longer the government and cabinet spokesperson. His contract
has not been renewed. Not everyone might agree wholeheartedly with the official line on how Manyi performed in his role, however.
Rod Baker, content director
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South African soldiers' lives are being put on the line when, on peacekeeping missions but hampered by obsolete equipment, they go up against heavily armed rebel armies. Army chief Lieutenant-General Vusimuzi Masondo revealed last week that there was a growing crisis in the army. Masondo was speaking in Pretoria at an annual media briefing on the state of the army. 
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: A damning inquiry into the treatment of women in Australia's military on Wednesday recommended quotas to increase female representation and the establishment of a unit to probe sexual misconduct. 
WASHINGTON, US: Military planners are studying contingency plans for a potential mission in Syria without precedent - securing the regime's chemical weapons in the midst of a raging civil war, officials and experts said. 
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: An F-16 fighter plane belonging to the Belgian military crashed and burned near the Dutch border Thursday after colliding with birds, the country's defence ministry said. 
