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AP) — Authorities say a child pornography investigation in North Carolina led to the arrests of the parents of a 14-year-old girl in South Africa RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)
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MARCH 8, 2013
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Trevor Noah, if you aren’t aware, is a comedian from South Africa. Instead, it gives his story of growing up extremely poor in South Africa, dealing with the effects of a post-Apartheid society.
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DECEMBER 6, 2013
And in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom , Justin Chadwick’s glossy biopic based on the former South African president’s memoir, it’s clear he was as human as anyone, even if history tends to forget.
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DECEMBER 10, 2013
I wasn''t ready to start a business, but South Africa inspired me. In my case, a second trip to South Africa was when the magic happened. Today, HLB is the largest importer and marketer of black-produced wine from Africa and its Diaspora.
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MAY 19, 2017
The former talk show host visited with an Elon student who graduated from her school in South Africa
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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
Five percent of sales will go to a charity that supports small business owners in Uganda, Malawi, South Africa, Ghana, and South Sudan Tom Cridland sells a $100 "Entrepreneur's Shirt"--guaranteed to last 30 years.
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DECEMBER 16, 2015
Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. If you don’t know what this is, let’s work with the simple Wikipedia definition which is pretty good. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer.
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A citizen of the world, he’s worked with disadvantaged youth in South Africa, and volunteered his time at many conferences around the world. Including conferences in Italy, Canada, Holland, Turkey, the UK, Korea, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, New Zealand, and Australia.
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The scam has been targeting consumers in South Africa, a country where online consumers face a high risk of internet fraud , for the past year. The scam starts with an email or SMS being sent to customers, purported by Wonga South Africa, to a diverse range of recipients.
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Other reports across South Africa and Europe have also indicated similar findings. According to recent reports, self-employed builders and quantity surveyors are 40% more likely than other professions to accumulate personal debt.
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joel.is
APRIL 20, 2014
doing retreats 3 times a year (the last two were Pattaya, Thailand and Cape Town, South Africa). Tweet. Buffer. We’ve recently reached the point with Buffer where I’ve started to think about a lot of key higher level choices. As a CEO these can be difficult decisions to make.
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I recognized the challenges that the majority of the unemployed face in South Africa: a lack of finance, lack of frequent access to technology, education and language issues (English is not the first language of many in South Africa). Each business has a story.
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South Africa. Check out the South African Savings Institute. The South African Savings Institute is a good resource for South Africans, with news, savings tips and information on participating in the national Savings Month. You’re going to need a bigger bank.
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APRIL 20, 2017
Their customers are in the United States and South Africa. In today’s business climate, the entrepreneurs are communicating with clients all over the world. They are dealing with suppliers in China and distributors in Mexico.
Both Sides of the Table
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Somehow he became popular in South Africa – with popularity approaching something like that of the Beatles. And he had never known of his success in South Africa. Many people reading this will be digital natives.
Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog
DECEMBER 26, 2015
Many who watch the markets lately have begun to fear for the once booming South African metals mining industry. The industry that many saw as the salvation of the economy for South Africa is currently embroiled in a huge bust, one that many in the industry fear may only be relieved with the help of some smart bankruptcy lawyers. It is exactly this situation in China that has created a run on the Chinese gold market and many fear the same situation here in South Africa.
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It was there on the shores of the South African coast that the initial idea for Slyde was formed. “The inspiration for the arrow in our logo is a turn-off sign you see along the N2 coastal highway in South Africa that has breaks like J-bay along it,&# adds Watts.
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JUNE 16, 2017
Unemployment is a huge problem in South Africa and being employed is associated with having a good quality life or in many cases even having a life at all. The idea of exactly what your business is going to be usually comes first. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea.
Inc Startups
JANUARY 15, 2013
Based in South Africa, it bought drugs from GlaxoSmithKline and sells them around the world. A number of mobile operators--VimpelCom in Russia, MTN in Africa--are groing at phenomenal rates. Never mind the economic downturn.
joel.is
APRIL 20, 2014
doing retreats 3 times a year (the last two were Pattaya, Thailand and Cape Town, South Africa). We’ve recently reached the point with Buffer where I’ve started to think about a lot of key higher level choices. As a CEO these can be difficult decisions to make.
David Cohen
MAY 16, 2014
Technology is changing lives — even saving lives — in Africa, the world’s second most populous continent. A production of BloombergTVAfrica , this will be an ongoing series about technology and entrepreneurship across Africa.
Winston-Salem Journal State/Region News
MARCH 2, 2017
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Simon Hobday, the fun-loving South African golfer who won the 1994 U.S. Senior Open at Pinehurst, died Thursday after a fight with cancer. He was 76
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APRIL 15, 2014
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APRIL 6, 2008
Those who follow my Twitters know that Ive just returned from two weeks in South Africa and Zambia, including six days in the game parks at Kruger seeing animals in the wild. All in all, its a trip I recommend to everyone - you recharge the batteries, see where we came from (my 23Across profile makes it clear that my DNA is out of Africa, as is true of all the humans), and puts into context our technology based society. WayTooEarly.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 2, 2015
Originally a trained fashion buyer from South Africa, Gnesin stepped into entrepreneurship at the age of 19. By Trevor Gnesin, President, Logomark. Over the past several years, a U.S.
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MARCH 11, 2016
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