The fifth BRICS Summit ended recently and was marked by Jacob Zuma's call for the organisation to
create a new funding model in Africa. He wants regional projects to be favoured for finance. Also at the event, Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies said that
partnerships in manufacturing are vital for BRICS success.
On a more sombre note, if the ANC has its way, there will be no judicial oversight over eavesdropping on communications originating outside of SA. So if the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill becomes law, you will have to
mind what you say - or write.
On a most sombre note, it has not been a good time for the SANDF, what with casualties in the Central African Republic and now the loss of five of its members who
died in an anti-poaching operation in the Kruger National Park when their helicopter crashed.
You're in HR, right? Or you're in management... so how are your internal communications - are you
getting the message right? Grace Harding, with 15 years of working in the field of internal communications / internal marketing, provides some views on the subject. After all, how can your staff perform properly if they are not getting the right message?
Finally, our tame motoring editor Henrie Geyser, and no slouch in the power game himself, says that the
Cruze has been given an extra dollop of power - hopefully that will end any talk of the model being a tad lazy.
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SchoolMedia, which serves as a platform for organisations such as Rotary International to get its branding and messaging into schools in Southern Africa, has expanded provincially and into Botswana. 
The UNISA Graduate School of Business Leadership (SBL) recently hosted its Research and Innovation Day at their campus in Midrand, Johannesburg. The day featured a series of high-level business and academic presentations, as well as a number of panel discussions. 
The first Durban series of workshops in the 2013 BASA Education Programme, supported by Etana Insurance, take place on 11 April 2013, at the KZNSA Gallery in Bulwer Road, Glenwood and are free to pre-registered participants. 
Four well-accomplished musicians-teachers-arts administrators from Berklee College of Music will visit South Africa for the third year running in April, taking part in the CTIJF's sustainable training and development programmes while conducting auditions and interviews with prospective Berklee students from across Africa. 
Retail training provider Retail Relate has just surpassed its previous learner retention rate with the successful completion of the Rural Youth Project (RYP) by 86% of the those who embarked on the course. 
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