Google fights Google Glass restrictions for drivers
From Reuters SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 25 (Reuters) – Google is lobbying officials in at least three U.S. states to stop proposed restrictions on driving with headsets such as Google Glass, marking some of...
View ArticlePravin Gordhan’s attack on property industry is unjustified: Big landlords...
South Africa’s biggest landlords, the owners of commercial properties, were appalled to hear what Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan had to say about them in South Africa’s national budget speech. Yes,...
View ArticlePrice is secondary to trust – Tip 17
Sale is a transaction of value and trust – not a one-night stand of price! That’s the nub of this tip by Mario Pretorius, who says price is secondary to “the tender ministrations of forming...
View ArticlePensions Preservation 2015 – More strikes, conflict, politicking – or...
Allan Greenblo was my boss at Finance Week in the early 1980s and wrote extensively then about attempts to introduce compulsory preservation of pensions. Those were heady times. Labour was starting to...
View ArticleDalai Lama made visa application
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama made a visa application in India for entry to South Africa, the international relations department said on Thursday. “The South African High Commission in New...
View ArticleLiberty Holdings eyes Ethiopia, Rwanda as Ghana deal nears completion
By Helen Nyambura-Mwaura JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African insurer Liberty Holdings is in the final stages of buying an asset management firm in Ghana and is also looking to Ethiopia, Rwanda and...
View ArticleEast African states agree duty-free trade deal with EU
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Five east African nations have reached a deal with the European Union to renew a duty-free export regime for fresh fruit, vegetables and flowers they sell to the 28-nation bloc,...
View ArticleNigeria is free of Ebola – WHO
At last there is some positive news about Ebola. Nigeria has been declared free of the disease, the World Health Organisation has announced. Unfortunately, the virus continues to take its toll...
View ArticleWhy SA economic policy is huge disappointment: political expert
South Africans had high hopes for the country after the dismantling of apartheid. And, for many years, the country looked like it was on an unstoppable journey to being a success story on the African...
View ArticleThink you can make your child more intelligent? Read this!
As a loving, devoted parent, you want to do anything and everything in your power to improve your child’s prospects academically as well as emotionally. Science suggests you are wasting your time on...
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