Via the Department of Communications, the communications minister Dina Pule has come out firing on all barrels and has
taken on the Sunday Times over what the department claims is a smear campaign against her. The final straw was apparently the newspaper's call on Sunday to Zuma to fire Pule.
On a happy note, and this is not an April Fool's joke so there's not need to check the calendar, Bizcommunity.com has instituted a
price freeze on most of our rates for 2013!Also on a happy, more melodious note (pardon the pun), the 19th Annual MTN South African Music Awards has
announced this year's nominees.Ford is doing its bit for the environment, and to combat water shortages, has
cut its global water use by 62% since 2000. Now, what about other companies following suit?
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DEARBORN: Ford reduced the average amount of water used to make each vehicle by 8.5 percent between 2011 and 2012 - putting the company more than halfway toward its current goal of using an average of just 4m3 per vehicle globally by 2015. 
In a show of support for the Maranatha Streetworker Trust's 10th anniversary, more than 70 Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA) employees recently participated in volunteer action at the Maranatha facility in Port Elizabeth. 
SHANGHAI, CHINA: Volkswagen said on Wednesday (20 March) that it will recall 384,181 vehicles in China because of gearbox defects, marking the German car manufacturer's biggest ever recall. 
The Supreme Court of Appeal's decision to set aside the murder convictions and sentence of taxi driver, Jacob Humphreys, is disappointing, says Western Cape Transport and Public Works MEC, Robin Carlisle. 
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