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Jenny chats to Alex Perry

Alex Perry is Time Magazine’s Africa Bureau Chief, based in Cape Town. His new book Falling off the Edge is billed as an adrenaline-charged journey through the developing world, which reveals with clarity that globalisation starts wars. Far from living in a time of peace and prosperity, Perry suggests, the boom is about to go [...]

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Japh Chuwe discusses traffic fine refunds

John got several calls after the Joburg Metro Police announced that all minor traffic fines between the 1st of November and 11th of February will be scrapped. This was a result of a gap between the abolishment and implementation of new legislation for the licence, point demerit. Japh says all fines falling under Sections 56 [...]


Hema Vallabh spoke about being a woman in engineering

Hema says the engineering world is male-dominated but she says her non-governmental organisation helps prepare newly-qualified women engineers for the working environment.

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Companies that Changed the World

Jenny chats to Jonathan Mantle, author of Companies that Changed the World. The book tells the fascinating stories of 50 companies that have exerted a critical influence on the social and economic history of the past four hundred years.
 
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