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No more cold cash at BP pumps
Aug 23 2007 08:33
Fuel giant BP has invested R20m in a new portable payment terminal that will allow customers to buy fuel with a debit card.

- Petrol price may drop further
- SA's petrol strike over
Get smart without going broke
Aug 23 2007 05:32
Thanks to the burgeoning "open courseware"movement, you can take free online classes in subjects as diverse as law and linguistics from universities.

- Gen Y click on for finance tips
- Students adopt wireless web
- 'Digital campus' in Africa
Building bosses under fire
Aug 23 2007 12:07
Inspections of one of the leading industries of workplace fatalities have exposed employers as contravening the law, says the labour department.

- Govt to invade building firms
- Over 200 bosses break laws
- Workers 'battle to get leave'
Five secrets of investing
Aug 22 2007 04:16
Investors feeling shaken by recent market fluctuations may want to revise their recipe for success.
Mines re-employ retired skills
Aug 22 2007 02:56
Mining companies are bringing engineers, metallurgists and geologists out of retirement to deal with the shortage of skills and help train new recruits.
'Boycott Chinese goods'
Aug 22 2007 02:29
Local consumers have been urged to boycott Chinese products, following scares over a range of toxic Chinese goods.
Gambling body slates new bill
Aug 22 2007 01:12
The Casino Association has slated the National Gambling Amendment Bill as "inadequate in some serious respects".
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Black like me
Aug 23 2007 12:00
BLACK FOREIGN NATIONALS are increasingly occupying higher positions in South Africa's private sector than locals, especially in the financial services sector where many are participants in major black economic empowerment transactions.
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Columnists
Be wary of rates optimists
Aug 24 2007 10:50
Finweek and Fin24 columnists, including myself - have been standing out against the bliss that the interest rate cycle has peaked, writes Michael Coulson.
Belinda Anderson
Fencing with foreign investment
Aug 24 2007 09:14
The Department of Communications' apparent desire to block the landing of Seacom is peculiar, writes Belinda Anderson.
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Googled says,
Float taxi industry on JSE
They say that fools utter their dreams, but this is not about to spoil my chance to dwell on my reveries.

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Strate Talk says,
Rent-A-Darkie

Having used my last R2000 (until payday) to apply for the Asonge share scheme, an equally good - if not better - opportunity to buy myself some future wealth came up in the form of PSG-aligned Thembeka Capital.

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