Capitec Bank: The implementation of a successful Bottom of the Pyramid Strategy. Introduction History shows that the South African banking sector has predominately focused on middle to upper class income groups in the market‚ whilst neglecting the needs and demands of low income groups (Manson‚ 2012). Capitec Bank on the other hand‚ focused on the needs of these low income groups‚ creating a business model that was specifically tailored to their needs. Capitec was introduced in the
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Ambiguity of Characters in Franz Kafka’s ‘In The Penal Colony’ and ‘Waiting for The Barbarians’ J.M. Coetzee is one of many well-known post-colonial writers. He was born and spent hid childhood in South Africa. Therefore‚ many people think that his novel “Waiting for The Barbarians” is an allegory of the situation of South African in a time of apartheid (Head 75). In addition‚ Coetzee is strongly influenced by the famous author‚ Franz Kafka. As a result‚ it is not surprised that “Waiting for
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References: Adler‚ R. B. & Proctor II‚ R.‚ 2011. Lookingout Lookingin‚ Boston: Wadsworth. Coetzee‚ 2010. Interpersonal Communication. Advanced Internal Audit Topics‚ p. 253. Drent‚ D.‚ 2002. The Quest for Increased Relevance. The Internal Auditor‚ Issue Feb ‚ pp. 49-55. Institute of Internal Auditors‚ 2014. Institute of Internal Auditors. [Online]
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. . . a nest of parasites hanging from the neat sunlit town‚ eating its substance‚ giving no nourishment back. Yet to K lying idle in his bed‚ thinking without passion (What is it to me‚ after all? he thought)‚ it was no longer obvious which was host and which parasite‚ camp or town. If the worm devoured the sheep‚ why did the sheep swallow the worm? What if there were millions‚ more millions than anyone knew‚ living in camps‚ living on alms‚ living off the land‚ living by guile‚ creeping away in
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with Serbia’s rejection‚ Austria-Hungary mobilized its army and declared war on Serbia‚ which also led to the mobilization of Russian army and declarations of war between Austria and Russia‚ along with the alliance systems were formed in this area. (Coetzee‚ 23-25) Meanwhile‚ a German administrator named Otto von Bismarck carried out the French Isolation‚ which its initial goal was to prevent France from alliancing with other nations‚ but its actual purpose was to weaken France’s power so that the Germans
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Beckett wrote - (a) Volpone (b) Mother Courage and Her Children (c) A Doll’s House (d) Endgame 3. Which one of the following author-book pairs is correctly matched? (a) Elfride Jelinek - The Pianist (b) J.M. Coetzee- Shame (c) Saul Bellow - Herzog (d) Salman Rushdie - Disgrace 4. The Plough and the ‘Stars’ was written by - (a) G.B. Shaw (b) Sean O’Casey (c) Lady Gregory (d) J.M. Synge 5. Willy Loman is a character in- (a) Waiting for Godot (b) A Doll’s House (c) The Cherry Orchard
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concerning why humans‚ especially civilized ones like the Empire‚ inflict pain rather than reason. As a consequence‚ he harasses the girl as a form of self-denial in believing he‚ a fatherly figure‚ is incapable of such acts. Similarly‚ in an analogy‚ Coetzee compares the girl to an unexplored landscape of which is “only a surface across which I hunt back and forth seeking entry”. This image created by the phrase “hunt back and forth” expands the foreign divide between barbarians and the Empire through
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advocation of the unification of all Slavic people throughout Eastern Europe (Kohn 9). A person is considered Slavic if they belong to one of the many people groups in Eastern Europe (modern day Poland and Ukraine)‚ Western Russia‚ and the Balkans (Coetzee 124). Pan-Slavism sought to unite the Slavic peoples that had been oppressed for centuries by the Austro-Hungarians and the Ottoman Turks. Serbia was the main proponent of Pan-Slavism in the Balkans as it sought to unite the Slavs in the area after
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In Waiting for the Barbarians‚ the line that divides the so called ‘civilized’ from the ‘barbarians’ is shown as deeply ambivalent. Illustrate this with examples and discuss the larger implications of this portrayal. J.M. Coetzee unravels the complexities behind the concepts of ‘civilised’ versus ‘barbaric’ in his book Waiting for the Barbarians. These concepts are reflective of the larger ideas of “Self” and “Other”‚ and are shown to be problematic in its definition. In the novel‚ the ever present
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The film Blood Diamond directed by Edward Zwick‚ we see three important ideas. The ideas are the child exploitation in countries that are struggling‚ the importance of family through hard times and the destructive nature of wealth and greed and what it can do to people. These are all portrayed in the film but can be easily related back to real life. The children in the film Blood Diamond are constantly being exploited‚ from the young ages of only 8 and up they are taken‚ abducted from family
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