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Useful Websites

Gurutrade Import Export Trade Portal
www.gurutrade.com
This site provides information and access to the Worldwide and African Import Export Market. Also offers access to Yellow Pages and Business Directories from around the world.

The Labour Advisor
www.labouradvisor.co.za
This site explains the various Acts regulating the Employer/Employee relationship: Labour Relations; Basic Conditions of Employment; Employment Equity; Skills Development; Occupational Health and Safety.

Business Opportunities

The Foundation for International Community Assistance
www.villagebanking.org
FINCA has been helping families to create their own solutions to poverty since 1984. What is Village Banking? Village Banking is a means of delivering financial services - small loans and savings products - to those who would not otherwise obtain them. While many agencies and organizations provide small loans to low-income families. Loans at market rates of interest are the central service provided by the Village Banking method.

Heifer International (South Africa)
www.heifer.org.za
Heifer International is a development organisation helping people to produce food and income for themselves using animals.

Soul vitamines

Do what you can, with what you have, wherever you are.
Theodore Roosevelt,br>
Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy ?

New on the Bookshelf

How to Turn Your Store into a Sales Phenomenon
Richard Hammond
Pearson Education, September 2003, 0273675214
This book covers everything from creating the ultimate in-store experience to understanding your customer and from promotional strategies to building energised and motivated teams. This book will equip store managers, aspiring team-workers, retail entrepreneurs and anybody who sells direct to customers, with practical winning ideas and strategies for retail success.

Fashion Entrepreneurship: Retail Business Planning
Tina Sterling, Michele M Granger
Fairchild Publications, Nov 2002, 1563672332
This book is suitable for those interested in opening any form of fashion retail business. It provides step-by-step guides and well thought-out examples for the reader to follow in preparing a business plan unique to this type of retailing.