We live in a country in which water is not as plentiful as we'd like, so it makes sense that
conserving water is the theme of Green Office Week (GOW). GOW this year takes place from Monday, 22 to Friday, 26 April.
TopTV wants to broadcast porn, and many people and religious groups don't want them to - so it seems there is a
TopTV porn boycott looming. In the other camp, there are also many people who are quite happy if the station wins its case and is able to take the porn route.
Looking to the heavens,
the SKA Organisation Project Office has issued its pre-construction phase request for proposals. The RFP is an invitation for international consortia to bid for work packages to design the various components of the SKA, such as antennas, receivers, signal processing systems, data transport and high performance computers.
Back on earth,
if you're content, we're content here at Bizcommunity. We have been ahead of the curve for years in providing an unmatched vehicle for all of you to get your message out there.
Finally, on the petrol-head front, our glamorous motoring editor Henrie Geyser reckons the
new Isuzu KB range scores in the glamour stakes and for those out there who love two wheels rather than four, we are now covering motorcycling news... and to start you off is the
new KTM 1190 Adventure range. If this doesn't make your eyes water, then...
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Reflecting a continued focus on managing margins and expenses‚ building materials supplier Iliad has recorded growth of 387.4% in headline earnings per share, climbing from 9.5 cents to 46.3 cents for the year to December. 
The Ackerman Pick n Pay Foundation has partnered WESSA and designer Stephen Lamb, who in collaboration with Cape Town artist Andrew Lord, has developed a pilot project that aims to demonstrate how informal dwellings can be changed into safer places of temporary living by addressing the issues of ground-water flooding, shack fires, thermal insulation and food security. 
According to reports, over the last five years, there are on average 10 shack fires a day in South Africa. In Cape Town alone there are more than 100 deaths resulting from shack fires every year, with one of the worst informal settlement fires in the history of Cape Town having occurred in Khayelitsha in early 2013, burning more than 1000 shacks to the ground. 
Construction of Eskom's Medupi power plant has hit another major obstacle with the news that critical software for the operating system - being developed by French contractor Alstom - has failed three tests. 
In what it says proved to be something of a mixed period for the group‚ heavy equipment manufacturer Bell Equipment saw diluted headline earnings per share fall from 285 cents to 232 cents per share for the year to December. 
South Africa needs to renew its focus on African economies in order to grow its export destinations, Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Thursday (14 March). 
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