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McLaren MP4 breaks all the records, but the Aston Martin Virage will win your heart!

16-05-12 | 17431 | Wheels

Daytona Group is having a road show of their Best of British brands in South Africa, and I was at the One & Only to drive the Aston Martin Virage and the McLaren MP4-12C. These are supercars that will make you stop and look whenever you see one, but getting to drive both of these beauties was a dream come true and I realise that these are truly brands of distinction.

How to land a job even if you have no experience

09-05-12 | 12643 | Education and career

It is the Catch-22 situation that has been frustrating jobseekers for ages: positions requiring experience from applicants, while applicants can’t gain any experience without first having had a job. But there are ways to make oneself employable and gain experience without having landed a position in formal employment first, an education expert says.

South Africa & China: deal-making differences

09-05-12 | 11401 | Business strategies

Natalie Kolbe, a director at pan-emerging markets private equity investor Actis, reflects on the differences between the deal-making environments in South Africa and China. The label ‘emerging markets’ may help us summarise prevailing global economic trends but it can also conceal and simplify: masking the myriad differences between the countries it describes.

EFC Africa 14 - bring it on!

02-05-12 | 12559 | MMA

EFC AFRICA returns to Johannesburg for EFC AFRICA 14, where featherweight and lightweight titles will be contested and Africa’s top mixed martial artists will battle it out in the hexagon. The fights that have been put in place will devide the men from the boys, but SA Men is looking forward to the Costa Ioannou and Adam Speechly match up! This will be the fight everybody is going to talk about!

Women are more cynical about online security than men

02-05-12 | 12348 | Technology

Figures released from a survey examining “attitudes towards online shopping and banking” conducted by Entersekt – a mobile security company and carried out by OnePoll, reveals that four out of ten consumers suspect they are playing with fire conducting financial transactions online.

Midlife change!

02-05-12 | 12455 | Relationships

We are both physical beings and spiritual beings. I’m comfortable with the idea of the physical being and reminded that I am one every time I stub my toe and bump my head (a separation of about 1.75 meters). My spiritual being is a bit more of a challenge. I definitely have a life force that animates me and I believe in Jung’s Collective Unconscious, but I don’t follow any religion and I don’t believe in a grey-haired-old-man on a cloud.

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McLaren MP4-12C and Aston Martin Virage

SanDisk launches high-performance extreme SSD

Also known as an electronic disk for data storage, SSD uses solid-state memory to store persistent data with the intention of providing access in the same manner of a traditional block hard disk drive with no moving components. SSD’s of today are based on using non-volatile flash memory as opposed to RAM, which loses content when it loses power. SSD’s are the perfect alternative to HDDs (Hard Disk Drives) which use magnetic heads and spinning disks to record information.

Are our post-apartheid kids interested in politics?

Watching television reports about the Freedom Day celebrations last week, one channel interviewed a teenager who spoke of a real lack of understanding of our political history among her peers. There can be no doubt that South Africa is as well-known across the world for its politics as it is for any other one cultural bit of heritage.

Underdogs Reign Supreme

The Metropolitan Premier Cup has usually been dominated by the PSL academies in recent years, with likes of Ajax Cape Town, Mamelodi Sundowns and Supersport United winning the tournament in the last few years. The last non PSL team to win this tournament was Bright Stars in 2007 and since then it has been dominated by PSL academies.

Its time to fight!

All systems are go for EFC AFRICA 13 at the GrandWest Grand Arena tomorrow night! All 26 athletes made weight at the GrandWest Market Hall on 12 April amid intense stare-downs. Cape Town’s first EFC AFRICA weigh-in attracted a large crowd of animated fight fans. Cheers for Cape Town’s local favourites and popular out-of-towners filled the hall as MMA athletes took the stage for the public weigh-in.

Fight week is here - Cape Town EFC 13

There is something about a good fight that just gets the heart pumping! We are built to be warriors at heart, but lets be honest, we need to preserve ourselves as well. So where do we go to release the warriors within us, we go and watch a rugby match or a boxing match, but nothing compares to a real fight to the end! Bring on EFC Africa 13!!! The EFC is bringing the fight to Cape Town, so if there are any warriors out there that wants to see what fighting is all about, then we have good news!!

Bagattin hunts redemption at EFC AFRICA 13

Popular Johannesburg fighter Dino Bagattin rushes straight back into the EFC AFRICA hexagon to avenge his recent loss at EFC AFRICA 12. Despite an excellent first round for the East Rand Muay Thai specialist, the grappling prowess of his opponent, Michiel Opperman, derailed his hopes of victory at 2:37 into round two.