South Africa has fast become known as \’the Rainbow Nation\’ for the diverse array of races and ethnic groups are found among the country\’s citizens. – http://www.southafrica.com/translation/ One way in which the country stands out is by its adoption of eleven official languages. New governmental powers saw the need to allow all major ethnic groups in […]
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The next Einstein will be African – A wish that inspired the world World-renowned, South-African-born physicist Neil Turok speaks out for talented young Africans starved of opportunity in a touching and insightful TED talk. He gave the talk at the acceptance of his 2008 TED prize. You can view his talk at here Neil Turok
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Online copywriting – Lifeblood to marketing gurus, Greek to many business owners To illustrate how well-written copy can influence the reach and effectiveness of your business online, let’s look an analogy. Picking up a book, you glance at the first few lines. The language usage is striking and the characters come to life. In fact,
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The Mystery of Plain Language The problem with plain language, of course, is pretty much similar to that of common sense – no one really knows how to define it. There’s always someone with a bit more common sense. There’s always someone a bit more wordy savvy capable of saying something in better, clearer English.
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Why a blog is vital to your social media strategy – a story It’s 7:15 pm. On each table a candle flickers in draughts of romantic ambience. Waiters lurk in the shadows to attend patrons with generous measures of expensive red wine. You stare into her eyes. She’s beautiful. She’s successful. She’s the kind of
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A recent study revealed that approximately six million South Africans access the internet using computers, laptops, and tablet devices. Seven million more access the internet using their mobile phones. However, while many may think of the internet as the de facto medium to reach out to new audiences, the reality is that anyone with a
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The Importance of Client Relationships in a Social Media Internet Era Change. That’s what happened a few years ago. It wasn’t a momentous sudden change, and nobody called it, at least initially, as they usually do with ideas that have potential. But social media came, penetrated contemporary society, and ended up conquering the business world
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Imagine only paying your employees for completed tasks. In a normal office where staff work at, say, R50 per hour, averaging about (let’s be honest) 5 hours’ actual work in a day, how much different would business be? You’d pay them about R1,250 a week, and that’s if there’s enough work to go around. In
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In our diverse, multicultural business society we are faced with unique challenges. Doing business in 11 official languages requires documents to be professionally translated across language barriers. Mistranslations are easy, African inflections can be challenging to the untrained translator and literal translation errors are all too common in the industry. This creates a quality control
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Anne Isabella Ritchie is unofficially credited with coining the proverbial saying “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” E-learning, a booming global industry, takes the moral a step further with its capacity to proverbially teach an entire village
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