With five more weekly newsletters to go, and just a few more sleeps until you find yourself pushing and shoving in a crowded shopping mall searching for that one last gift, the news flow is yet to slow! All
26 of our industry newsletters are jam-packed with what's what with the who's who.
The annual
Checkers/Shoprite Toy 4 Toy campaign launched this week, so if you have any new or used toys laying about that little Susie's outgrown, why not donate them to a less fortunate child. The campaign runs until early December.
After Randall Abrahams handed over the SAMA CEO baton to Nlanhla Sibisi, the
2013 MTN South African Music Awards is now open for entries. Look out for a few category changes here and there, and have your entries in by 30 November 2012. As my father recites whenever buying his
tata ma chance ticket, you have to be in it, to win it...
Still on the topic of winning, well done to the KZN-based African Centre for Crop Improvement for
scoring its first award! Conferred by A Green Revolution for Africa for "exceptional contributions to food security in Africa", the ACCI received its award from Nobel peace prize laureate Kofi Annan.
Lastly, in an endeavour to keep our coasts clean and our marine life protected, the Western, Northern and Eastern Cape coasts will soon have
bins in which fishermen can discard broken or used line. The project, successfully implemented along the Overberg's Gansbaai shoreline, uses PVC pipe as bins for fishing line. According to John Kieser, sustainability manager of Plastics|SA, the project has received plenty of support from the public and fishermen have also welcomed the initiative. Well done to all involved!
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The North Gauteng High Court ordered three private companies to allow a City Press journalist to view and make copies of the lists of shareholders or members of the companies. The South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef) welcomes the ruling which effectively ensures greater transparency in the country's business affairs. 
The use of a device to jam cellular phone signals, privately or publicly, is illegal, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) said on Wednesday. 
Provisional liquidators for the budget airline 1Time have been appointed after the North Gauteng High Court granted the company a provisional liquidation order. 
The Tax Administration Act (Act 28 of 2011) took effect from 1 October, apart from certain provisions relating to interest, which will take effect from a date still to be determined. According to the SARS Short Guide to the Tax Administration Act, the Act "aims to simplify and consolidate, into one Act, a more logical and systematic way of dealing with the tax administration law. 
A complaint by Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) against the SABC over the black-listing of commentators has been withdrawn. 
South Africans will smoke eight-billion smuggled cigarettes this year‚ an increase of 500-million from last year‚ costing the government R12bn in lost taxes‚ says Francois van der Merwe chief executive of the Tobacco Institute of Southern Africa (TISA). 
The country's second largest tomato producer faces a R28m fine for allegedly failing to comply with labour regulations. 
The police's employment equity plan was unilaterally changed and by the wrong individual, the Johannesburg Labour Court has been told. 
The Supreme Court of Appeal has expressed reservations about the manner in which damage claims would be distributed if a class action against the largest bread producers was successful. 
WASHINGTON, USA: A US soldier accused of leaking a trove of secret files to WikiLeaks has offered to plead guilty to some but not all of the charges he faces in a pending court-martial, according to his defence lawyer. 
SAN FRANCISCO, US: A US judge on Wednesday was considering a request by Apple that would pull Google from the sidelines in a long-running patent war with Samsung over mobile gadgets powered by Android software. 
An information technology contract worth R23m, awarded by the Gauteng finance department, is under investigation by the Hawks, according to the Sunday Independent. 
The e-tag system will be rolled out at toll plazas in provinces other than Gauteng, Sanral said on Wednesday. 
