eNews has been a success story on the South African TV front and has shown the way in providing news to its audience. Now it's spreading its wings and
going international. It will launch on the SKY digital satellite platform in the United Kingdom. Group head of news, Patrick Conroy, says "This will give us access to over 10 million homes in the UK. What is really significant though is that we will have access to the South African expat community. If they want news from home it's just a click away."
Moeletsi Mbeki, brother to former president Thabo Mbeki, is one of the most respected political economists and commentators in SA, and he says that
inequality and unemployment are holding SA back. He says: "One of the fundamental problems of SA is that you have a separation between the people who hold political power and the people who hold economic power," adding, "If there was a more unified ruling class in SA you would have more certainty."
Cadre deployment by the government has sometimes been a contentious issue. Now Karen Heese and Kevin Allan examine the
high delivery cost of deploying cadres.
Our own Sindy Peters took time out to do something great for the environment and she ended up getting dirt under her fingernails planting
trees in Zambia, where, she says "me became we". Sindy also achieved a career goal - turning over a new leaf, at last she was (pardon the puns) a branch manager (if only for three weeks).
Finally, on the motoring front, our motoring editor, Henrie Geyser says the new
Mercedes B-Class is first class - just like the man himself (our words, not his).
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The Peninsula All-Suite Hotel's Jamie Pieters has been elected alternate director for the youth segment of the Western Cape branch of the Federated Hospitality Association of South Africa (FEDHASA) and will now be part of the FEDHASA Western Cape board. 
JOHANNESBURG: Gauteng MEC for Education Barbara Creecy has encouraged girls from various schools in the province to expand their career choices in the field of science. 
Quirk Education is calling all owners of the Quirk textbook, eMarketing: the essential guide to online marketing to deliver their older versions to its offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town, as part of its textbook drive, as the newest digital version is available for free download. The second-hand textbooks will subsequently be donated to the Digital Media and Marketing Association's (DMMA) Knowledge Network and distributed to underprivileged schools. 
Damelin recently awarded a Student Degree Bursary to the value of R100 000 to 26-year-old Nolwazi Pinkie Madlala at the recent South African Youth Awards hosted by the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) in Midrand. 
The Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) at the University of Cape Town has presented the Stella Clark Teachers Award to Phuti Ramarope of the Sinthumule Secondary School in Tshilwavhusiku, Limpopo. 
NEW YORK, US: Consumers' days of cutting back-to-school spending are behind them, and shoppers are reverting to more traditional information sources to study up before heading to the store, according to Deloitte's annual "Back-to-School" survey, released this week. 
