Just launched a new site for a initiative within GBO, called Trade Settlement Services. Not simply a systems and information technology company, this initiative is focused on delivering a broader set of trade settlement related services, providing a supply of leads and prospects to our clients.
If you are interested go through to http://www.tradesettlementservices.com and […]
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In case you believe that the whole country is going to hell in a hand basket, and national enterprise is destined for absolute failure, think about the South African Post Office.
I can’t speak for its profitability, but then again the U.S. Mail is a loss leader for that country, and the UK’s service is […]
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I absolutely loved reading this article. My first job was on Pepper Street in 2003, the street had already started its metamorphosis into playground for euro trash, but walking up from the station on many a morning at 7am are some of my happiest memories; lunches spent digging around Serendipity book store, or going to […]
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Everyone is running around like a headless chicken in the US at the moment about the Recession/Depression that the country is facing.
The government is printing money at a truly impressive rate, making Robert Mugabe look like a fiscal conservative. With all the TRILLIONS of dollars being pumped out by Treasury and the Fed, the […]
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Common Craft is a pretty cool company. They make complex things understandable to the common man. So I could help but laugh when I hit there web page today, and splashed across the front in bright red was a Drupal error that only a SQL-Talker (there is a good reason for SQL being a […]
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Gordon Brown sent the message yesterday that he knew how to handle an economic crisis - despite having an economy that is dwarfed by the U.S. economy, the UK government put together a bailout worth over 500 billion pounds. All over a take out curry - now that is impressive stuff!
Couple that with an […]
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No doubt everyone is dropping a coil over the failure of the ‘bailout’ from the U.S. congress to calm world markets. Incredibly people are learning the downside of a globalised economy - big brother in the form of the United States can’t bail out the entire world due to structural shortcomings.
Of course this is all […]
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I’m a huge believer in nuclear power. I think all the tree huggers and hash smoking Greenpeace hippies should look at the simple fact that the solution to our destructive addition to fossil fuel has been staring us in the face since the 40s, namely nuclear power. It is infinitely cleaner, safer for the […]
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All thinking people hate unsolicited offers. And whilst there will always be the shady offers out there, trying to get you to get R1000 life insurance for a mere R55 a month (do you expect to die in the next 20 months? if no, you are getting screwed!).
Well now you can register to […]
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Helen Zille wants to debate Jacob Zuma in a public debate, a-la U.S. elections.
I don’t think she is going to get her wish, Zuma, and the ANC sees debate outside the ANC as anathema. To debate outside the party is to acknowledge that ideas of value can exist outside of the party, and that […]
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During the Great Depression, and afterwards during the New Deal (which could be argued was pretty depressing for many) Franklin Roosevelt spoke to the American people with the so-called ‘Fireside chats’. I think that sort of direct passive communication between the leader of a nation and its citizens is a good thing.
Thabo Mbeki may […]
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Tito Mboweni and the rest of the monetary policy committee of the South Africa Reserve Bank look set to raise interest rates by as much as 2% to curb rampant inflation, which is breaking through the 10+ %, well outside the inflation target of the government at 3-6%
This may seem draconian, as jobs are […]
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A final word on David Bullard, who has gotten a boost on my respect-O-meter after his apology in today’s Business Day.
He apologised for hurting people’s feelings, about the fact that his words could be understood in a hurtful way.
And I think it shows a great amount of maturity in the man. Firstly for […]
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We live in a world of democratised mass media, where anyone with an internet connection, even if just over a mobile phone, CAN access a large global audience.
But the operative world is WILL they? The sad answer is… probably not.
The same market forces which make little newsletters printed on LaserJet’s unsuccessful versus the […]
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Everyone deserve’s a little bit of free advertising, no more than Cell C. So let me say as a satisfied customer I’m pretty pscyh’d that the company finally turned a profit in Q1/2008.
Why? Because if companies like Cell C who avoid hype like 3G and spending millions running illegal lotteries and spending even […]
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