While MTV no longer stands for Music Television, the essence of the 32-year-old channel lives on, supported by a shiny new market segment - an audience that requires much more than music videos. In order to keep them satiated, the channel has launched its first localised interactive magazine programme for South Africa's youth - MTV Choice; it's been dubbed "pop-tastic"...

Want to start your own business? Easier said than done, I'm afraid - ask any successful entrepreneur about the trials and tribulations they experienced before finding the winning formula. Problemio.com, creator of business planning apps, has outlined five steps to starting a business.

Even if you have been in HR management for some time, it's not easy to pick out a fraudulent medical certificate. Once you have, or have your suspicions, what do you do then? Lia Marus advises on the best course of action in "How to deal with fraudulent medical certificates".

I, and I suspect many others, have a severe case of arms deal fatigue. We're going on two years since the commission was set up to determine whether there was any corruption involved in procurement contracts that were awarded in the '90s. The public hearings, were underway in Pretoria, this week, but have since been postponed for two weeks to allow for the declassification of certain documents. Here's hoping it'll be smooth sailing from there on...

Sindy Peters, Group Head: Content

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