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		<title>Shining eyes, smiling faces witness a real African revival in Ethiopia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 18:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ADDIS ABABA &#8211; Journalism teaches us to abandon preconceptions. No matter how much you may know something, care to dig and you’ll find another side, an option never considered. Every story has many sides. As much as we love to pigeonhole and categorise, reality is different. Life is complex. Take my current assignment, covering the <a href="http://www.alechogg.com/2012/05/shining-eyes-smiling-faces-witness-a-real-african-revival-in-ethiopia/"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An unlikely hero from the wrong side of Greyville who is living proof of the Oracle of Omaha&#8217;s wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past few days have reminded me of why the Good Lord created Adam and Eve. In a healthy partnership, one plus one really can equal three. Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, puts it best with his claim that selecting a life partner is the most important decision we ever make. These thoughts came <a href="http://www.alechogg.com/2012/03/an-unlikely-hero-from-the-wrong-side-of-greyville-whose-living-proof-of-the-oracle-of-omahas-wisdom/"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The week our world got changed &#8211; I love it, but the cynics certainly won&#8217;t</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my earliest memory, I’ve been in love with this country. But rarely have I felt so proud to be a South African as right now. It’s been a momentous fortnight. We didn’t win any World Cups or Gold Medals. What happened was a lot less obvious, more subtle, even a little stealthy. But once <a href="http://www.alechogg.com/2012/02/the-week-our-world-got-changed-i-love-it-but-the-cynics-certainly-wont/"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Warren Buffett just doesn’t “get it” on gold – Cutifani</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anglogold Ashanti’s CEO Mark Cutifani is to local mining what John Biccard is to asset management. Biccard is the man other money managers would most trust to handle their savings. In mining, Cutifani’s astute management has raised the bar for an industry where performance was once measured by volume of rock through the mill rather <a href="http://www.alechogg.com/2012/02/warren-buffett-just-doesnt-get-it-on-gold-cutifani/"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs is proof Warren Buffett&#8217;s right &#8211; who you marry does make all the difference</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walter Isaacson’s book on Apple’s Steve Jobs gets one feeling it’s a pity biographies begin, as they must, with the subject’s early years. After the first 200 pages, many will be tempted to throw away the tome, tiring of a brattish Jobs who typifies much of what the rest of the world dislikes about American <a href="http://www.alechogg.com/2012/02/getting-to-really-like-steve-jobs-not-just-admire-him/"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Third time unlucky for our Mooi River studio as cable thieves strike thrice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mojalefa Moorosi writes: Dear Alec I’m one of the listeners of money web show on SAfm. Thank you for the informative programme and I hope we won’t lose the programme due to  cable theft. I’m looking for a website that publishes the daily JSE share price report, same as the one published by The Citizen <a href="http://www.alechogg.com/2012/02/third-time-unlucky-for-our-mooi-river-studio-as-cable-thieves-strike-thrice/"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An open letter to Mercantile Bank&#8217;s CEO David Brown</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go this letter today from Nick Gerakis who has some very relevant points about the possible acquisition of Mercantile Bank minority shareholders. Well worth reading: &#160; Dear Mr David Brown, I have been accumulating Mercantile shares for the last 10 years. I also have advised family members close friends and other investors to buy shares <a href="http://www.alechogg.com/2012/02/an-open-letter-to-mercantile-banks-ceo-david-brown/"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Basics first please, and then watch Africa fly the way everyone&#8217;s predicting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any African had to get excited about the goings-on at last month’s World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Everywhere the news was good. The PWC CEO survey, for instance, showed African business leaders to be the only ones worldwide more confident than a year ago. And in one session after another, we got <a href="http://www.alechogg.com/2012/02/basics-first-please-and-then-watch-africa-fly-the-way-everyones-predicting/"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The letter we all wish we&#8217;d written &#8211; or in this case, the action we wish we&#8217;d taken</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Travelling around the world sounds glamorous. Provided SAA plays its part and you&#8217;re able to find a flight that accepts an upgrade with those Voyager miles, it can be. There&#8217;s little in the way of luxury to compare with a Business Class dinner, service, space and that lie-flat seat. But even going in style requires <a href="http://www.alechogg.com/2012/02/the-letter-we-all-wish-wed-written-or-in-this-case-the-deed-we-wish-wed-done/"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>SA business&#8217;s first Facebook War &#8211; and the winner is&#8230;&#8230;Frankie&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frankie’s, the mouse that roared, has prevailed against retailing giant Woolworths. It’s been a stunning victory. The tiny rodent has beaten the elephant. Frankie’s won because of the social networks that drew its friends together. An army of mice that overcame the elephantine opponent one tweet at a time. It has been South African business’s <a href="http://www.alechogg.com/2012/02/sa-businesss-first-facebook-war-and-the-winner-is-frankies/"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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