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.
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Japanese car manufacturer Nissan is aiming to double its production in Thailand with plans for a new ¥30bn factory near Bangkok, according to a report released on Wednesday. 
Anglo-Dutch oil group Shell said on Tuesday it may not meet contractual obligations on certain exports from Nigeria because of theft and damage to key pipelines in the country's oil region. 
The Voorspoed mine owned by De Beers was ramping up production by a third to 800,000 carats over the next two years, the mine's GM, Mpumi Zikalala, said on Friday. 
German competition authorities have approved the proposed alliance between French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen and its US rival General Motors, which owns Germany's Opel. 
State-owned arms manufacturer Denel made an urgent plea yesterday for the government to disburse the R700m allocation it had committed to for use by its ailing subsidiary Denel Aerostructures. 
Personal computer (PC) maker Lenovo will launch a range of tablet computers running Microsoft's Windows 8 and Google's Android operating systems in the next couple of months‚ the company said this week. 
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