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30 July 2010
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Makarapa inventor Alfred Baloyi
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Jacqui Pile
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From humble miner’s hat to collector’s item, Alfred Baloyi’s makarapas have become an international hit. Named after the colloquial word for an immigrant mine worker, lekarapa, the custom-made, colourful creations originally made from miner’s helmets for soccer fans have become an icon of the 2010 soccer World Cup. Baloyi first came up with the idea of wearing hard hats to soccer matches in 1979 after seeing missiles being flung from upper seats at fans in the cheap seats.
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Financial Mail
Friday, July 09, 2010
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Insurance for all
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Stafford Thomas
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Stafford Thomas speaks to the MD of Alexander Forbes Insurance Gari Dombo about compulsory vehicle insurance being mooted by the department of transport. What prompted government to consider introducing compulsory vehicle insurance? There are about 9,5m vehicles on our roads and only about 35% of them are insured. If an uninsured driver is involved in an accident for which they are liable, the chances of recovering any costs from them are almost zero.
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Financial Mail
Friday, July 02, 2010
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Energy man renewed
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Charlotte Mathews
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Greenies should be delighted. With former Eskom CEO Thulani Gcabashe now heading his own business specialising in renewable energy sources, alternatives to coal-fired power in SA have found an influential champion. Gcabashe, who left Eskom in April 2007, was bound by a two-year restraint of trade that prevented him from working elsewhere in the energy industry. He consulted to Eskom in the first year and then set up his own company, BuiltAfrica Holdings.
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Financial Mail
Friday, June 25, 2010
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Doctors’ champion - Phophi Ramathuba
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Jacqui Pile
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Government’s latest pay offer to certain public-sector doctors and specialists — an annual increase of 1,5%-3% — has shocked Phophi Ramathuba, chair of the public-sector doctors’ committee of the SA Medical Association (Sama). “There has been an exodus of doctors from the public sector, yet government seems unwilling to attract doctors or retain them,” she says.
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Financial Mail
Friday, June 18, 2010
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New finger on the pulse
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Jacqui Pile
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Given the prospect of national health insurance (NHI), the medical schemes industry faces an uncertain future. Working out what role SA’s 110 schemes will play will be part of the job of the recently appointed CEO and registrar of the Council of Medical Schemes (CMS), Monwabisi Gantsho. Set up to protect the interests of beneficiaries of medical schemes and to co- ordinate the functioning of schemes to complement national health policy, the council also monitors the solvency and financial soundness of schemes. Schemes are facing increasing pressure to expand access beyond their current 8m members, and medical costs are increasing...
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Financial Mail
Friday, June 11, 2010
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Real people doing unreal things
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Yvonne Fontyn
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From the publications put out by various Gauteng tourism organisations, one would think all that Johannesburg had to offer soccer fans here for the World Cup were shopping for fur and gold, eating in pricey restaurants and staying in Sandton hotels. Ethel Williams- Abrahamse Ethel Williams- Abrahamse
Fan village entrepreneur
The Unreality Check
* Established the Troyeville & Kensington Fan Village to provide an authentic experience for tourists
* Signed up local artists to participate in the parties and cultural events during the soccer World Cup
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Financial Mail
Friday, June 11, 2010
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Corridors of correction
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Thebe Mabanga
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New correctional services commissioner Tom Moyane brings a wealth of public and private-sector experience to a post that will test him to the limit. Moyane (57), says he took up the position because he “accepts that in life there will always be challenges” and he has the self-belief that the “work can be done”. He will not be drawn on operational matters, as he’s had the post for only two weeks, but offers some ideas on addressing two problems that plague the department:
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Financial Mail
Friday, June 04, 2010
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Beyond the office
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Yvonne Fontyn
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Deciding straight after matriculating in 1998 that he wasn’t “an office person”, Mpho Mnisi focused from the start on becoming self-employed. A finalist in the TechnoServe Believe Begin Become entrepreneurship development programme, Mnisi (30), is today the owner of Afuraka Crafts and in talks with a large mining group to supply industrial gloves. Operating out of Ekangala in Gauteng, Mnisi started off making leather goods, such as handbags, shoes and belts, to go with the traditional dresses his friends were making.
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Financial Mail
Friday, May 28, 2010
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Grace under pressure
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Thebe Mabanga
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Newly elected Business Unity SA (Busa) president Futhi Mtoba believes in confronting her critics, however misguided, with grace. Her election was attacked by the Black Management Forum (BMF), which accused her of representing established business and questioned her credentials as a change agent. Such criticism must have hurt, but this week Mtoba described it as “disappointing” and diplomatically suggested empathy with the BMF’s point of view. The forum has since withdrawn its criticism.
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Financial Mail
Friday, May 21, 2010
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Black Economic Empowerment (“BEE”) was meant to have found itself on more certain ground with the gazetting of the Codes of Good Practice in 2007. After all the years of anticipating an end to the moving targets and constantly shifting playing fields, the South African business community had cause to celebrate the birth of a decade of BEE certainty as the Codes superseded the plethora of sector charters and corporate self regulation.
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