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Sold! One daughter for one iPhone

This has got to beat everything... a Chinese couple is facing criminal charges after selling their daughter for an iPhone.

Look, as just about every parent knows, you don't always necessarily like your kids (sometimes you wonder why you even bothered to have the ungrateful little buggers), but you always love them - and selling off your daughter and then using part of the proceeds to buy an iPhone is just plain wrong - in anyone's language, in anyone's culture.

It's that fracking subject again... two new proposed laws have been published regarding the environmental regulation of fracking. This seems to indicate that fracking might start sooner rather than later.

It's time to hide that moustache trimmer and get with the Movember flow... Movember 2013 has been launched and it's your chance to help 'Change the Face of Men's Health'.

On the ICT front, Internet Solutions is celebrating 20 years, and is predicting exponential growth for the internet in South Africa and Africa, and it's time to enter the Ericsson Application Awards 2014. Students and small- and medium-sized enterprises from anywhere in the world are invited to submit Android and iOS apps.

Rod Baker, Content Director

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Outa denies urging civil disobedience
The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) has rejected claims that it is encouraging Gauteng motorists to break the law and not pay their e-toll bills. Read more >>


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Woolworths sandal recall after two injured
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Taste Holdings earnings jump 28%

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Listed retail franchise group Taste Holdings on Tuesday (15 October) reported a 28% rise in diluted headline earnings per share to 5.5c for the six months ended August‚ driven by strong performances from its food and jewellery brands. Read more >>

NEF invites French companies to co-invest
Speaking at the South Africa - France Business Forum 2013, the CEO of the National Empowerment Fund (NEF), Philisiwe Mthethwa invited French companies to "invest in strategic investments valued at more than R33 billion, which collectively have the potential to generate in excess of 100,000 new decent jobs. Read more >>

Railway
Prasa signs multi-billion rand train upgrade
The Passenger Railway Agency of SA (Prasa) has signed the first phase of a projected R123bn contract towards the upgrading of the country's railways and trains. Read more >>

Transport
Mercedes-Benz hands over busses to City of Joburg's BRT
Sandown Motor Holdings recently handed over 134 bus units of 0500M Euro V city bus chassis to the City of Johannesburg at the launch of BRT Phase 1B. The chassis supplied by Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA) are made up of 93 complimentary buses and 41 articulated buses. Read more >>

Outa will not appeal judgment so all motorists must pay tolls
The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) does not have the funds to appeal the Supreme Court of Appeal's dismissal of its challenge to e-tolls, chairman Wayne Duvenage said last week. Read more >>

SA, Poland agree to up trade relations, tourism

Chris Bathembu

South Africa has acknowledged the importance of Poland not only as a trading partner in Europe but as a crucial market for South Africa's tourism industry. Read more >>

Peugeot misses European car sales rally
PARIS, FRANCE: Shares in struggling French manufacturer PSA Peugeot Citroen dropped 4.76% in early trading on Wednesday (16 October), after data showed that the company's sales in Europe had fallen again in September. Read more >>


Government

Gautrain proposes seven new routes
The Gautrain Management Agency has proposed seven new routes for the express train that will expand the current network from places of employment to residential areas. Read more >>


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Mining
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