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If you want to escape the city and chill out in a superb mountain setting while listening to acoustic performances by some of the country’s top artists, then look no further than the annual White Mountain Folk Festival.

Coinciding with Heritage Day and the start of the school holidays, this intimate, family-friendly festival runs over four days from September 24 to 27 and is held at White Mountain Lodge near Giant’s Castle in the beautiful Central Drakensberg, only 34km from Estcourt on tarred roads.

Featured acts include Rambling Bones, the alter ego of Jay Bones, frontman for popular ska/punk band Fuzigish; Wonderboom’s Cito, performing songs from his soon-to-be released debut solo album; as well as a rare, acoustic solo performance by Bertie Coetzee, lead vocalist for Afrikaans folk rock outfit Zinkplaat.

Also on the bill are Farryl Purkiss, Josie Field, Larry Amos, Gary Thomas, Laurie Levine, Redhand Blues Band, Joshua Grierson, Andra, Barry Thomson, Flowing Water Band and Catlike Thieves, to name but a few.

Other attractions range from abseiling, paintball and helicopter flips to fishing, boating, hiking and a zip line across a nearby 100m-wide gorge. There’s also a beer market featuring several local breweries, colourful arts and crafts and a variety of food stalls catering for all tastes. Festival-goers can also make full use of the lodge’s facilities, including a restaurant, pub, games room, swimming pool and satellite TV.

Now in its fourth year, White Mountain is KZN’s only acoustic music festival and has quickly become a firm favourite on the events calendar. Tickets are available at Game stores in KZN (R400), Computicket (R450) and at the festival gate (R500). The price includes camping for the entire festival and children under 12 pay R50. For more information, visit www.whitemountain.co.za or contact Pedro at 082 892 6176.

Performance management is a comprehensive approach for planning and sustaining improvements in the performance of employees and teams, so as to meet standards. Poor PMS as well as absence of PMS leads to high rate of business failures in both public & private sector. Hence, The adoption of the EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM aka PMS will make public & private business effective, efficient and sustainable as firm are able to differentiate and deploy EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM rather than JUST ANOTHER PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM or MEDIOCRE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.

With that in mind UNI Strategic along with Mr. Monty Sacher, Director of Sacher’s Associates who specializes in the development and implementation of performance improvement systems in both the private and public sectors; who has deep personal interest in improving bottom-line performance in medium to large organisations and an international author is organizing a workshop entitled EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT schedule to be held in Johannesburg South Africa from 5th – 6th August 2010.

The program is meant for Directors, Heads, Vice Presidents, Senior Managers, and Executives who involve in the area of Performance Management, particularly from the Human Resources, Performance Management, Compensation and Benefit, Organizational Development, Recruitment and Retention and Training & Development department and all Head of department. I strongly urge you to re-examine your existing PMS if you have one or Learn if you haven't deploy any. Take this opportunity to Learn & Upgrade your skills, knowledge and objectives from GURU rather than MEDIOCRE and rebuild a solid PMS that is effective, efficient and sustainable.

To register request a registration for from abas.p@kl.unistrategic.com . Please complete the registration form and email it to abas.p@kl.unistrategic.com . Alternatively you can fax the form to me as well. Kindly email abas.p@kl.unistrategic.com once you've faxed or email the registration for smoother registration and reconciliation process. Please let me know if you have further inquiry about the matter. If you wish to have this program in the Middle East, just drop me a note and we'll take a necessary action on your request.

Your participation consideration is highly appreciated.
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