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/ 20 November 2006
"Madam president, please can you intervene as we are being bombarded by the honourable member’s cellphone," an MP stood to complain about a fellow MP whose phone continually emitted an irksome guttural ringtone as Imbia Sylvester from Cameroon was making his presentation.
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/ 20 November 2006
”Madam president, please can you intervene as we are being bombarded by the honourable member’s cellphone,” an MP stood to complain about a fellow MP whose phone continually emitted an irksome guttural ringtone as Imbia Sylvester from Cameroon was making his presentation.
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/ 17 November 2006
Percy Zvomuya goes in search of the faces and places that are redefining Johannesburg cultural make-up.
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/ 6 November 2006
Sudanese telecoms billionaire Mo Ibrahim has launched the Ibrahim Index for African Governance, a new comprehensive ranking of sub-Saharan African nations developed in conjunction with the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Rule of law and security will weigh heavily in the index, ahead of human development, economic development, democracy, transparency and empowerment of civil society.
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/ 2 November 2006
Look beyond the price tag when buying a new car, because some cars now come with expensive repair bills. In the lower price range, for instance, you may end up paying just R44 to replace the fan belt, or R678, depending on which car you buy. Take the case of the Citroen C2.
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/ 29 September 2006
Percy Zvomuya speaks to Owen Sheers about Welsh literature, his taste in books and the telling of his great-grand uncle’s adventures as a missionary in Zimbabwe.
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/ 26 September 2006
The picture painted of South African brands and companies by Wikipedia, the free web-based encyclopedia, is not quite as rosy as investor-relations people would like it to be. Wikipedia is now among the web’s top-20 most visited sites, according to web-traffic researcher Alexa, and its articles regularly rank in the first page of Google search results.
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/ 25 September 2006
The South African Lamborghini market is so bouyant that more sales are recorded locally than in Spain. These are significant figures for a marque that has been around for four years and whose sales were only six in 2004, 10 last year and about 15 this year. "We have seen an increasing change to the demographics of buyers of luxury and super-luxury cars," says Grant Anderson, marketing manager of Investment Cars.
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/ 19 September 2006
Timing is never more crucial than when you decide to enter the stock market. The difficulty is, as you ogle a juicy-looking stock, you are armed only with the benefit of hindsight. And even then no one, not even an expert, can know when we are in the trough of a market — the perfect buying opportunity.
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/ 19 September 2006
The recent rise in the repo rate, the rate at which the Reserve Bank lends money to commercial banks, to 8% has raised the prime interest rate to 11,5%. This makes borrowing money to finance home and car purchases more expensive. But every dark cloud has a silver lining — and money market, fixed-deposit rates and savings for pensioners and other investors have seen a boom.