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Markets: Looking bleak

Icy winds are again sweeping through global equity markets. Rising fear about the strength of the economic recovery has prompted investors worldwide to flee equities and plough funds into government bonds — and shares are sliding.

Most global stock markets have fallen sharply from their April highs, when jitters[...]

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YWIF enjoy chocolate, wine and good advice in Camps Bay

On Friday August 20, UCT InvestSoc’s Young Women in Finance (YWIF) held their final event for the year. Sixty young women arrived at the Twelve Apostles Hotel in Camps Bay for an elegant evening organised by Absa Capital.

The YWIF mentorship project, traditionally a three-day annual summit,[...]

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Fraudsters in high places

As we watched the trial of SA’s ex-police commissioner Jackie Selebi unfolding, many asked where we had gone wrong – that a person in such a highly respected and accountable position could be convicted of fraud and corruption. The irony was not lost on the nation.

While it may[...]

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Boosting our actions in the new decade

The South American Business Forum (SABF) took place recently in Buenos Aires, Argentina from August 6 -8 2010, and local student Tascha Terblanche was lucky enough to attend the event. She tells us about the programme.

The forum, which in its sixth year, has created a platform for students[...]

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Community-serving entrepreneurship

The University of Pretoria (UP) came out tops in the 2010 national Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) SA competition which ran from August 5 – 6 at the Birchwood Hotel in Johannesburg.

SIFE International operates in more than 40 countries with 10 of them from Africa including[...]

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BEE: A power keg

The controversies surrounding the Sishen and Lonrho mineral rights have raised old questions about black economic empowerment (BEE), including the undeserved enrichment of elite individuals. But now, under the Jacob Zuma regime, there is growing concern about cronyism, patronage, and the role of government officials.

This time the appearance[...]

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Your three-step guide to goal-setting

Success is luck, but sometimes, working towards a set goal makes all the difference. Here’s a guide to getting to the top of your game.

These days, being successful is important. But what success means to you and how you achieve it really is up to you. On[...]

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SA Ports: Pay up and wait

State-owned enterprises must be “efficient engines of economic growth and development”, public enterprises minister Barbara Hogan told parliament in April. Great political rhetoric, but the reality is that ports operated by Transnet are a high-cost, inefficient drag on SA’s competitiveness.

“It is what you would expect of a monopoly,”[...]

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Industry insights: IT

FM Campus chats to Conrad Leigh, IT retail industry player and founder of IT advice and maintenance vendor Lab88, about the IT industry. Leigh also sheds some light on making good gadget buys –  thinking practicality and price.

Lab88 is an IT vendor (with stores in Johannesburg, Bloemfontein[...]

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Telkom: Lost connection

A month before Jeff Molobela took over as chairman from Shirley Arnold at Telkom in November last year, he started meeting the 12 board members individually. The meetings were lengthy enough for the board members to raise concern about two albatrosses — the launch of its mobile service and[...]

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