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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 | Issued by Private Property On 16 October Private Property hosted the first CARE Awards prize-giving at the plush Durban Country Club. Attendees were treated to a sunny breakfast spread before proceedings took over. Read more >>
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 | MWEB has launched their 25th store after signing a partnership with Silulo Ulutho Technologies in Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape. The launch took place late last month, celebrating the success of the partnership in providing full computer training service centres to emerging market communities. Read more >>
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 | The Tsogo Sun has announced that its enterprise development programme, Book a Guesthouse, has grown by nearly 50% with 29 new entrepreneurs being inducted into the programme in September, bringing the total number to 89. Read more >>
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 | The Loskop Dam Nature Reserve is situated 55km north of Middelburg and is managed by the Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency. Thanks to a partnership with Anglo American's Zibulo colliery two hides have been constructed at the reserve. Read more >>
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 | The Charles Glass Society, in collaboration with the SAB Boucher Foundation, has raised almost R150,000 towards the fight against rhino poaching in South Africa. Read more >>
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 | A seven-year partnership between Reach for Recovery, the national breast cancer support group, and Top Carpets and Floors has enabled Reach for Recovery's eThekwini chapter to continue its important task of providing practical and emotional support to breast cancer patients in KwaZulu-Natal. Read more >>
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 | Gardens Shopping Centre in Cape Town will host a charity book sale from Monday, 21 October to Sunday, 3 November. The two week long sale will support HIV/AIDS NGO Wola Nani, a non-profit organisation that helps bring relief to the communities hardest hit by the HIV crisis. Read more >>
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 | The annual awareness donation-drive of the Nappy Run in October has kicked off and culminates on Sunday, 3 November with a 5km fun run event at the Joburg Zoo to acknowledge and celebrate children with disabilities, following National Children's Day on 2 November 2013. Read more >>
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 | The Pink Drive became one of South Africa's largest breast cancer awareness drives - an initiative that started in October 2011 when a group of women dressed in pink set off for a 5km walk. This effort resulted in Pick n Pay last week handing over an incredible R800,000 towards to the Pink Drive. Read more >>
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 | At the recent Pam Golding Properties Gardens on Show event, approximately R107 000 was raised for local charities in East London, far exceeding the R65 000 which was the highest amount previously raised (2011). Read more >>
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 | Col'Cacchio Pizzeria, through its Celebrity Chef Series, has donated R339,225 to The Children's Hospital Trust, fundraiser for the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and Paediatric Healthcare in the Western Cape. Read more >>
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