Soccer sickness to spike

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The World Cup is expected to cause a spike in absenteeism resulting in a hefty R750-million price tag for South African employers - but there are things that can be done to stop workers from skiving off.

Alexander Forbes Health head of health management solutions Toska Kouskos, said that one of the inconspicuous costs of the World Cup is the high numbers of people skipping work to watch football.

“What we have seen from other World Cups is that typically one in three workers take a day off during the event. “If you add that up, it comes to an estimated loss for the economy of R750-million in a four week period over the World Cup.”

Hair extension industry built on Indian sacrifices

In an act of religious faithfulness, hundreds of thousands of Indian women have their heads shaved, unaware that their valuable hair is then collected and used to support a multi-million-dollar fashion industry in the West.

Every day tens of thousands of Hindus make religious journeys to the country’s biggest temples.

They make special requests to the gods or give thanks for wishes granted. Many have no money to offer the gods; the most valuable thing they can give is their hair. The process is called tonsuring.

In the past in India, temple hair was used to stuff mattresses, but now, that has all changed.

When the hair extension industry kicked off in the Western world, temples found they could sell sacrificed hair to the middle men of the hair extension industry for $200 to $300 a kilogram.

By now its value has jumped to $500 a kilogram.

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