Brett Petzer

Brett Petzer

Architectural graduate, French-English translator, fiction writer, illustrator. brettpetzer.com

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KZN announces 4000-seat outsou
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KZN announces 4000-seat outsourcing park to meet demand

Durban’s welcome to investors is therefore a warm one, although there is currently no large agency exclusively focussed on bringing BPO investment to the city. However, the synergies available to those near the Tradeport will in themselves constitute a major attractor for foreign and domestic outsourcing business.

Saffas in Uniform: Mischa Dubr
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Saffas in Uniform: Mischa Dubrovo | Royal Marine

After excelling at the extremely demanding team sport of rowing at St Benedict’s College, Mischa decided to make a career of teamwork by signing up for the Royal Marines, which first meant passing what is arguably the working world’s toughest physical challenge.

KZN outsourcing surges with Ae
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KZN outsourcing surges with Aegis landing

The KZN staff join the company’s 2000 existing employees in Johannesburg in a company that has experienced 30% year-on-year growth in its five years in South Africa, with plans to expand in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya as soon as adequate local partners could be found.

Nelson Mandela’s Living Legacy
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Nelson Mandela’s Living Legacy | 1961 – Umkhonto weSizwe readies itself for armed resistance

In the lull that followed the Apartheid state’s embarrassment at the outcome of the Treason Trial, Nelson Mandela briefly became notorious in the media for travelling the length and breadth of the country disguised as a chauffeur, coordinating resistance and laying the groundwork for the Umkhonto weSizwe resistance organisation. The decision to embrace armed resistance was a major turning point for the ANC that marked a definitive break with the Luthuli era.

Rand Report | Rand shows signs
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Rand Report | Rand shows signs of stabilisation

Although there was a great deal of worry about this last week, other factors that might contribute to the stabilisation of the Rand, is a consolidation in commodity markets like gold and platinum and the news that China was set to achieve growth of 7% for 2013.

Saffas in Uniform: Brad Blackw
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Saffas in Uniform: Brad Blackwood | Explosives Expert

His work in explosives and Improvised Explosive Devices puts Brad in the frontline of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan. Here he discusses his rigorous training, support for the troops and the impending withdrawal of British troops from Germany

Nelson Mandela’s Living Legacy
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Nelson Mandela’s Living Legacy | 1960 – Sharpeville opens the ‘silent Sixties’

The Sharpeville shooting marked a turning point in Apartheid’s fortunes. The massacre of 69 protestors by police galvanised world opinion and was the first real shot-in-the-arm to the anti-Apartheid movement in the West. Meanwhile, inside the country, Sharpeville set off a wave of rioting and unrest and set the stage for an entirely new level of Government repression in the decade to come.

Nelson Mandela’s Living Legacy
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Nelson Mandela’s Living Legacy | 1956: On Trial for Treason

The immediate after-effect of the adoption of the Freedom Charter was increasing paranoia in the Apartheid state. As Chief Albert Luthuli said of the Treason Trial which came shortly thereafter: “That grim pre-dawn raid, deliberately calculated to strike terror into hesitant minds and impress upon the entire nation the determination of the governing clique to stifle all opposition, made one hundred and fifty-six of us, belonging to all the races of our land, into a group of accused facing one of the most serious charges in any legal system.”