The Sonskynvallei WCG eCentre assists local people to communicate more effectively with government and communities around the world by providing access to e-mail, internet and various government services. Sonskyn Vallei is located approximately 9 km north, north-west of the Mossel Bay central business district, near Hartenbos. The eCentre was officially opened on 11 November
Phillip Spears/Getty Images(NEW YORK) For Emily and Michael Brown, the Federal Reserve's rate hikes hit close to home. The Browns had been renting a two-bedroom apartment in Washington, D.C., when their now-6-month-old daughter was born. Eager to upgrade to a bigger space, the couple wanted to put their savings to use buying their first home. But as they looked for a place to live this year and watched mortgage rates, and their potential monthly payments, steadily climb the couple lowered their budget from $500,000 to $400,000 and decided to put an offer on a home farther away from the city, with less space and fewer amenities. "As the rates kept going up, we had to really bring down our budget and also be a little bit more realistic about what we were going to get for that budget," Emily Brown, a high school math teacher, told ABC News. Mortgage rates have more than doubled since January, lenders and real estate companies say, spurred by aggressive interest rate i
Traditional nuts and bolts of accounting will always be pivotal to the sector but the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has driven it to embrace the unparalleled benefits of technology.This is according to Nelson Mandela University applied accounting lecturer Andrea Govender.