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Christmas gifts

Posted inBusiness, Media

Christmas spending: where’s the money coming from?

by Sarah Britten 21 December 20115 January 2012

Sandton City is a madhouse. The reports are disturbing: gaggling crowds of teens everywhere, shops heaving with bodies, zombies wandering from store to store, gift lists clutched in clammy hands. Some of my hollow-eyed acquaintances report that they didn’t even make it beyond the parking lot. Christmas is coming, and apparently South Africans are shopping […]

Posted inBusiness, General, Lifestyle

Are Christmas gifts just a horrible waste of money?

by Sarah Britten 29 November 2011

December is almost upon us and Christmas is less than a month away. Already the malls are heaving with hollow-eyed wrecks ticking off mental lists of people on their Christmas gift lists (some of them fantasising, no doubt, about bombing a place that approximates Dante’s fourth circle of hell). Ernst & Young is predicting a […]

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