Well, Mangaung has come and gone - as has the end of the world, the festive season and New Year, and we've survived them all and now we're back on stream with our newsletters.
Taking centre stage has been the
violent protests by farmworkers in the Western Cape. These protests need to be brought to an end; they're damaging Brand SA and have the potential to seriously curb exports (and hence foreign earnings) as customers overseas turn to more reliable suppliers.
On the education front, the
Matric pass rate increased to 73.9% but critics are asking whether a requirement of 30% to pass is enough to equip school-leavers with an adequate standard of education. Many employers reckon not - they're prepared to train new staff in the roles the new recruits will have to take up in the company - but those recruits need to be literate and enumerate to a level that will enable them to acquire and apply their new knowledge properly.
If you're in business, you're in IT... perhaps not directly, but every time you use a computer, you're operating within the IT world. So what are the
23 business attitudes to IT security you should be looking at? Kaspersky Lab research has some answers for you.
Finally, for all you petrol heads out there, our scorchingly good-looking motoring editor Henrie Geyser takes you for a drive in the
Mercedes SL 500 and shows off his tough, rugged side with the
Land Cruiser 70 double cab.
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According to Dr Salomé van Coller-Peter, management coach and programme head for the University of Stellenbosch Business School's (USB) MPhil in Management Coaching, management coaching is fast becoming a key strategic lever for the development of talent and for creation of an enabling environment. 
Is that college you have chosen a real thing? Here's how to spot the bogus one. 
Damelin sponsored prizes to the winners at the 12th Miss Teen India SA gala event on 30 December 2012 at the Coastlands Umhlanga Conference Centre. 
Schools are "the bedrock" on which democracy is built, and which will determine whether democracy will work or not, Western Cape Premier Helen Zille said yesterday. 
During the month of January 2013, the Sunday Times will donate R1.2 million worth of school fee prizes to at least 80 children to cover the costs of the 2013 academic year. 
A total of 73.9% of the matriculants who sat for the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations in 2012 passed their exams. 
In November last year (2012), PEP ran a survey to find out attitudes towards Back-to-School (BTS) issues. From the hundreds of thousands of responses to the survey, it appears parents have strong opinions about how schools could help them more with uniforms. 
