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If the shoe fits

Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:00 Written by Martin Czernowalow

I don't know about you, but I’ve recently had the frightening realisation that we are already about halfway through September – approaching the end of the third quarter of 2012 – and from here it’s a rather short hop to Christmas.

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Risky business – the pitfalls of the Web

Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:00 Written by Bart Henderson

Bart Henderson is a leading forensic auditor and CEO of Henderson Solutions, an enterprise risk management firm.

Recently, the body of a young man from Cape Town was found in Khayelitsha. Olwyn Cowley, from Brackenfell, was killed after trying to sell his BMW to a man who responded to his ad on Gumtree.

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The meaning of disgrace

Wednesday, 05 September 2012 00:00 Written by Bart Henderson

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ‘tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The heartache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? – Hamlet, William Shakespeare

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Smartphone turf war looms

Wednesday, 05 September 2012 00:00 Written by Martin Czernowalow

While Apple and Samsung are hell-bent on kicking each other where it hurts as they jostle for dominance in the global smartphone space, one can only begin to appreciate the intensity of this battle in the context of the magnitude of the global market.

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