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24 May 2013

Reforming Telecommunications in Burma: Human Rights and Responsible Investment in Mobile and the Internet (May 2013)

This 24-page Human Rights Watch report outlines steps necessary to promote adequate protections for Internet and mobile phone users in Burma, and ways to foster responsible investment in Burma’s...

20 May 2013

Nigeria bombs Islamists, US sounds alarm

UNREST

Nigerian warplanes struck militant camps in the northeast on Friday in a major push against an Islamist insurgency, drawing a sharp warning from the United States to respect human rights and not...

08 May 2013

From fear to hope – Getting it right in Somalia

African Development Bank

It has been two decades of mayhem, chaos and bloodletting in Somalia. A child born at the onset of the Somali crisis is now twenty one. Somalia has still a long way to go: the Al Shabaab are...

06 May 2013

UASA: Statement by Mike Schüssler, Economist, on the 2013 UASA South African Employment Report (03/05/2013)

STATEMENT

The 2013 UASA South African Employment Report (SAER) shows that for the first time, the average employee’s disposable salary is fewer than 70% of his gross salary. The South African worker's...

02 May 2013

SA suspends protocol boss over Gupta wedding flight scandal

SCANDAL

South Africa suspended a senior foreign ministry official on Thursday after a charter plane carrying nearly 200 guests for the wedding of a family with close ties to President Jacob Zuma used an...

30 Apr 2013

R500m investment consolidates Western Cape as global call centre hub

CALL CENTRES

Cape Town is becoming a hot destination for the call centre sector, with an announcement of further investments and the creation of many more jobs. Capita, one of the Western Cape’s largest call...

SA: Statement by the Mpumalanga Provincial Government, on Overall Fridays in Secunda (30/04/2013)

STATEMENT

Mpumalanga province’s Overall Friday initiative around Secunda and Embalenhle on 26 April 2013 has led the police to several successes that include among others the arrests of wanted suspects,...

24 Apr 2013

How to deal with abscondment – step by step

SOUTH AFRICAN LABOUR GUIDE

Most employers will at some stage have to deal with an employee that failed to return to work. This normally happens after a payday, a period of extended sick leave or a shutdown over December. But...

‘Foreignising’ Ethiopia: Exotic and alien business branding

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

At the beginning of the 1990s, the wind of liberalisation started to blow over Africa, and subsequently many have tried their best to attract foreign investment in various sectors.(2) At the turn...

14 Apr 2013

SA: Statement by the Department of Trade and Industry, on Techno-Girl Entrepreneurship competition (14/04/2013)

STATEMENT

Learners from the Namaqualand-based Steinkopf High School impressed a panel of judges with an innovative business idea at a Techno-girl Entrepreneurship Workshop that was hosted by the Department...

26 Mar 2013

Strategising China–South Africa relations

AFRICA INSTITUTE OF SOUTH AFRICA

South Africa and China have emerged as major players in their respective continents and today need to co-operate in most of the major world organisations. This, in turn, has also increased their...

01 Mar 2013

SA: Statement by Mamphela Ramphele, Agang founder, on the death of Mido Macia (01/03/2013)

STATEMENT

Dr Mamphela Ramphele of Agang today expressed her deep shock at the death of Mido Macia, reportedly at the hands of police who dragged him to the Daveyton police station tied to the back of a...

25 Feb 2013

SA: Nomvula Mokonyane: Address by the Gauteng Premier, on the occasion of the opening of the Gauteng Legislature, Johannesburg (25/02/2013)

SPEECH

In just over a year, we shall celebrate two decades of democracy in South Africa. It will indeed be a significant milestone in our history. In his 1994 Presidential inaugural address, former...

20 Feb 2013

AA: Statement by the Automobile Association of South Africa, roadside assistance service provider, maintains that distracted driving is one of the leading causes of road accidents (20/02/2013)

STATEMENT

40 people die on South Africa’s roads every day resulting in almost 14,000 deaths every year. Worldwide, more people are killed as a result of road accidents than malaria. A sobering thought...

19 Feb 2013

NDMA: Statement by the National Debt Mediation Association, reports a 60% increase in mediation cases for the fourth quarter of 2012 (19/02/2013)

STATEMENT

The National Debt Mediation Association (NDMA) saw a 60% increase in requests for mediation during the fourth quarter of 2012, from 538 cases in the third quarter to 1352 cases in the last quarter....

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