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“I’ll tell yer how it be; the rivers will run red with blood until every reptile and fish has been suffocated in the soggy mass, the mountains will roar with hellish flames as if conceived in Beelzebub’s own backyard, swarms of locusts will sweep the countryside devastating everything in their path until the landscape resembles […]

By now, most companies should have woken up to the fact that if they want to stay in business for any length of time, permission-based marketing is the order of the day. In other words, get permission from customers and potential customers before marketing to them. What companies might not yet realise, is that SMS […]

Philippe Gilbert could do no wrong in 2011. He undeniably enjoyed the most successful year of his career, which eventually ended with 18 victories. Winning a race nearly every month of the season, he embarrassed other members of the peloton from February (when he took out his first win in the Volta ao Algarve) to […]

South Africa won their first Test series at home since beating Bangladesh in 2008 after two dominant displays at Centurion and Newlands, plus being taught a lesson at Kingsmead in Durban (again). Jacques Kallis silenced his ever-present band of critics, who, like an ex-partner dating your best mate, are always too near for comfort. Sure, […]

Is the mobile workforce a practical reality in corporate South Africa? Elingo’s Karl Reed discusses the technicalities of this much touted organisational dream. One of the most common misconceptions currently at play in the South African economy is that mobile workers must operate at management or executive level. This opinion, which is widely held, amounts […]