6 Nov 2012

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We're last in class

So what are we going to do about it? We all know our state education system is a shambles, and now that has been confirmed after SA was rated as bottom of class in maths and science. It's yet another extremely dubious "honour" this country has earned. The question is: how will our shambolic "education" system be fixed?

And if you are in the NPO sector, it's time to be afraid, very afraid... According to
Inyathelo executive director Shelagh Gastrow, if proposed amendments affecting the BEE code go through as is, NPOs and charities could go under - and that means many thousands of children and adults currently being helped, will be affected.

Trying to benefit our exports by 'managing' the rand will not help exporters say a number of experts. In any event, one says, the market is far too large for us to influence it to any effective extent.

Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande says bankers need to be taught courses in sociology, apparently in order to develop a social consciousness about the effects of lending.

And to end, Bizcom's very own "brute in a suit", motoring editor Henrie Geyser, says the new Chevrolet Trailblazer is - just as he is...a brute in a suit.

Rod Baker, content director

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A spouse by any other name
[Johann Jacobs] With the advent of our democratic constitution, and against a backdrop of universal secularisation, many social and political structural changes to our societal institutions have occurred over the last two decades. Read more >>

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Judge denies SATRP and Bridgestone leave to appeal
The South African Tyre Recycling Process company (SATRP) and Bridgestone Tyres have had their application for leave to appeal dismissed with costs. Read more >>

Racing Limited vs Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
[Alastair Morphet] Those of you who are Formula One fans will remember vividly that in 2007 the McLaren team was fined USD100 million by the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) because they had been engaged in a scheme (and I am not sure whether that is the correct word) whereby Nigel Stepney, a top mechanic with Ferrari, had passed information on to Mr Coughlan, the chief designer at McLaren. Read more >>

The discharge of a debt with stolen funds
[Jonathan Witts-Hewinson] The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), in the matter of Absa Bank Ltd vs Lombard Insurance Company Ltd, recently handed down an insightful judgement, in which it clarified certain misconceptions that have arisen, pursuant to unjustified interpretations given by some to various prior judgments, dealing with the ability of an offended party to recover stolen funds, transferred to the credit of the bank account, of a fraudster or thief. Read more >>

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Four suspects appear in court on bombing charges
PRETORIA: Four suspects linked to the bombing of a Correctional Services truck appeared in the Randburg Magistrates Court on Friday, 26 October 2012. Read more >>

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Knives out for Telkom's Moholi
The "revolving door for executives" at Telkom may next claim CEO Pinky Moholi, a Telkom veteran who was appointed to the helm last year. Read more >>

Appeal court to rule on SAPS race row
The Labour Appeal Court is expected to rule this week on an affirmative action case against the SA Police Service, trade union Solidarity said on Tuesday. Read more >>

One doctor expected to treat 120,000 people
Nine months after Dr Siva Pillay, superintendent-general of Eastern Cape health, promised to appoint three more doctors to the under-staffed Madwaleni Hospital, there is still only one doctor treating 120,000 potential patients. Read more >>

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Court order stops SAPS from filling vacant post
The SA Police Service (SAPS) has been interdicted from filling a vacancy occupied by a union member in a temporary capacity, trade union Solidarity said on Thursday. Read more >>

Five ways to improve the attorney-client relationship
[Jody Doyle] Few people are enthusiastic about engaging the services of a lawyer. As an entrepreneur, you're almost certainly more interested in growing the business than in meeting with your attorneys - but getting from idea to reality invariably requires the involvement of a lawyer at some point or another, so it makes sense to get the most you can out of your lawyer. Read more >>


International
Russia puts first sites on new Internet blacklist
MOSCOW, RUSSIA: Russia has put into force a new law on the Internet that allows the government to block websites with banned content, prompting fears that it will be used to suppress free speech. Read more >>

Ireland's Eircom telecoms to cut 2,000 staff
DUBLIN, IRELAND: Ireland's former state telephone company Eircom is to cut 2,000 jobs over the next 18 months, the company said on Wednesday. Read more >>

US embassy reviews use of Vietnam website
WASHINGTON, US: The State Department said on Wednesday it was reviewing the US embassy in Hanoi's use of a popular Vietnamese website amid concerns the site is riddled with pirated material. Read more >>

South Korea angered by Google's island name change
SEOUL - South Korea lashed out at Google for changing the name of an isolated set of islands at the centre of a territorial dispute with Japan on its English-language web mapping service. Read more >>

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