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Below are Barbara’s articles – if you would like to read a full article please request it from Barbara on erasmusb@mweb.co.za.

BOOKS/REVIEWS

  • Rainbow Reading (Cape Times, December 12, 2006)
  • Something to celebrate (Cape Times, December 12, 2006)
  • A share in the future (Teacher, July 2006)
  • Steinway stakes a claim (Cape Times, March 2007)
  • Blowing their own trumpets (Teacher, July 2007)
  • Women novelists publish locally (Citizen, August 2007)
  • An alphabet of crime (Mail & Guardian)
  • Is there a leader in the pack? (Mail & Guardian, April 2008)
  • Philips Cape to Cairo Road Show (In-house Symposium 2011)
  • In a Class of It’s Own (Private Edition, 2011)
  • Daring to Dream (Private Edition, 2011)
  • Nothing in Moderation (Private Edition, 2010)
  • A Sound Investment – Steinway Pianos (Private Edition, 2010)
  • Dark Video – Click With Caution (Sunday Times, September 2008)
  • Rally to Read – More than a Corporate Gesture
  • A Khayelitsha Caper (Country Life, October 2011)
  • Lock up your daughters (Mercury, February 2012)
  • Bloomsbury in Cape Town (Cape Times, November 2011)

BUSINESS

  • Business schools for Africa (Mail & Guardian, August 2, 2002)
  • Training corporate leaders – employment equity (Mail & Guardian, August 2, 2002)
  • Corporate travel incentives (Business Travel Now, November 3, 2001)
  • The pleasure principle – alternative investments (Men’s Health, December 2001)
  • Management issues in the new millennium (Mail & Guardian, Getting Ahead, Post-graduate education supplement, August 3, 2001)
  • Is an MBA still relevant in the new millennium? (Sunday Business Times, January 21, 2001)
  • MBA’s are spoiled for choice. (Business Day, November 20, 2000)
  • Techno Trends – the virtual office. (Equinox, Issue 3, 1999)
  • Commercial banking – Standard Bank. (in-house publication)
  • Rand Merchant Bank – a historical perspective (in-house publication)
  • Deloitte Consulting adopts Pretoria Child Welfare (in-house publication)
  • Isabel Jones joins forces with Telkom (in-house publication)
  • New Kids on the Block – emerging business schools
  • Corporate head hunters (in-house Symposium, 2011)

TRAVEL

  • Do try to see Argentina (Saturday Star, Travel Section, August 4, 2001)
  • Global Village – British Hills (Diversions 27, 2000)
  • Japan – country of Contrasts (Saturday Star, Travel Supplement)
  • Japan – A South African perspective (Saturday Star, Travel Supplement, September 1, 2001)
  • Tips for the SA traveller in Japan (Travel Now, January 2002)
  • Ulusaba – Virgin territory
  • Russia by River (Saturday Star, Travel Supplement)
  • A sip of Southern Spain (Weekend Argus / Saturday Star)
  • Starry starry night (Weekend Argus / Saturday Star / Alive)
  • Alaska is Awesome (Weekend Argus / Sunday Tribune)
  • Redcoats, Zulus – and David Rattray (Saturday Star, 2007)
  • Modern Mauritius (Saturday Star, 2008)
  • In England’s green and pleasant midlands (Saturday Star, 2009)
  • Zagreb – Cafes, Cathedrals and Catholics (Weekender, 2009)
  • Gearing up for the Winter Olympics – Vancouver 2010 (Saturday Star, February 2010)
  • Premier Classe – Shosoloza Meyl Goes Up-Market (The Weekender)
  • Chicago – Technology is Trumps (Saturday Star, April 2011)

HUMOUR

  • Heavy petting (Alive)
  • Bush Widow Blues (Fairlady)
  • Lucid Lies
  • Travels in Wonderland
  • The Blackboard Jungle (Fairlady)
  • Sandpit saga (Fairlady)
  • A Bridge too far?

HEALTH

  • Autism – mind-blindness (Mail & Guardian, May 4, 2001)
  • Allopathic medicine and holistic healing
  • Discrimination against the mentally ill (Mail & Guardian, October 12, 2001: DASG GlaxoSmithKline Media Excellence Award 2001)
  • Goals in Sight (Teacher)
  • A Cautionary Tale (Woman and Home, October 2011)

MEDIA WORK

  • Corporate Communication Consultants – SOS Children’s Villages
  • Success stories – Dorcus Mashale, Jerome Janetjies, Lucky Zwane, Audrey Mothupi
  • Architecture – building dreams in concrete
  • Bequests – the will to make it happen.
  • Happy birthday, Herman Gmeiner!
  • Zebra Art Register 2002
  • Street children’s art
  • Absa Atelier awards
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