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FRENCH writer Victor Hugo, born 200 years ago this year, wrote of the unending conflict between humanity and the immense natural forces of the wind and sea. "This contest," he said, "is known as shipping." French sailor Bernard Moitessier regarde...

The Chiel
Shed weight at work ANYONE who is still in the corporate world these days knows the pressures that are on us all to perform. Management milk and squeeze us all they can to make profits. Of course they try to arm us with the right state of mind a...

Employers making credit difficult to obtain
I HAVE been employed in management positions in the credit sales retail industry for 16 years. Over the past few years I have noticed a growing tendency by my customers' employers to disregard various conditions of the Basic Conditions of Employme...

Shock over use of police to raid Bisho MPLs
RE: "Scorpions raid MPLs in Bisho" (DD, July 5). I read the story with shock and dismay. It is absurd and unlawful that the ruling party can use its state police to raid the offices of its own members. Events in this country over last few months ...

Why Africa is at the bottom and America in the West
They tell us where we are, where we're going, and how to get there. But the most important use of maps may be that they can tell us where we have been. The world of maps and cartography, Christopher Lane in London discovers, has had more to do wit...

Look after your pension
By Zibia Mbalekwa IT IS the social responsibility of the credit grantors and close relatives of pensioners to protect the aged and other social grant recipients against over committing themselves. We, at consumer affairs, are always in disbelief...