Cape Quarter

Valentine’s day at Cape Quarter

It’s the month of Love and the magic of romance has arrived at Cape Quarter on Somerset Road and Waterkant Street with a glorious celebration that reflects everything about this traditional celebration. This is the place to celebrate and be celebrated!

Going beyond ‘Green’- the next evolutionary step forward …….. ?

With growing public concern about global warming and how we have damaged earth’s eco-systems, it has become a fashionable trend to “Go green”. Whilst this is a positive initial response, it does not address the core of the issue..

Hospitality Investment Conference Africa (HICA) from 4 to 6 November 2009

 HICA 2009 highlights bright future for hospitality industry in Sub Saharan Africa           

(May 2009) As industries around the world struggle in the wake of the economic downturn, the hospitality Industry in Southern Africa is facing the future in a buoyant mood.

SAFPS

Southern African Fraud Prevention Service Conference 2009 - 22-23 October 2009

Why you should be attending the Southern African Fraus Prevention Service Conference2009 “Trust Betrayed – the Cancer Within”  

Along with identity crime the problems of employment application fraud and employee fraud are becoming endemic worldwide. As with the current world economic crisis South Africa is not immune from this scourge. The 2009 SAFPS annual conference “ Trust Betrayed -The Cancer within” looks at the reasons behind employee dishonesty, directors and managers corporate responsibility with regard to internal fraud as well as examining some of the more important employee frauds that have occurred and identifying procedures to reduce the risk in the organisation of employment application and employee fraud.

The conference is directed at Senior Management, HR and IR Management as well as Compliance Officers, Risk Managers and Forensic auditors “.

With top international and local speakers including Mervyn King of the King Commission and Martin Welz of Noseweek we unpack what is happening in our country and how we can prevent it.

We look forward to your joining us at this groundbreaking event on 22 and 23 October at the Radisson Hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg.

Patrick Cunningham

Executive Director

DARWIN200

Charles Darwin, Human Difference & the Story of Caster Semenya

With the controversy surrounding Caster Semenya, Dr Wilmot James looks at Charles Darwin's early views on race and reflects on the modern molecular view more broadly of human variation at the next FREE Darwin lecture on September 2 He will illustrate the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the biology of human difference. 

When Charles Darwin visited the Cape in 1836 as part of his circumnavigation of the world on the HMS Beagle, he and Captain Robert Fitzroy observed that the missionaries had done well to turn human beings living in a state of savagery to become social beings capable of civilization, which is why Fitzroy and Darwin felt the Cape Europeans’ antipathy to missionaries was sorrowful. The origin of the feeling was of course the missionaries’ support for the abolition of slavery – a cause with which Darwin more than Fitzroy happened to agree The idea that the moral nature of people was not unalterably fixed was a forward-looking one at the time. Neither was the proposition racially defined, for Fitzroy and Darwin applied the notion of the ‘alterable savage’ to their own Saxon ancestors whom they referred to as ‘barbarians’.

Date :   Wednesday 2 September 2009

Time :    5:30pm for 6:00pm

Venue: New Learning Centre, Health Sciences Campus, UCT, Anzio  Road, Observatory

RSVP:   Linet at 021 557 0246

linet@hippocommunications.com 

For more information go to:  www.africagenome.com