Now that Barack Obama is almost certain to be the Democratic Party’s nominee, those who want to believe he may change the United States’s foreign policy should turn to his pre-campaign biography. I don’t mean the recent <i>Audacity of Hope</i>, but <i>Dreams From My Father</i>, which he wrote in his early 30s.
The United Kingdom commercial property sector has gone through a signiÂÂficant slump in the past year with capital values falling an average of 15% since June last year, reports investment broker at Broll Property Group, David Adams. This market, says Adams, provides an excellent opportunity for South Africans to use offshore allowances or asset swaps to create offshore assets with the UK property pricing.
Financial planning varies from person to person — the individual who has more money than he or she knows what to do with clearly has a different financial planning problem from the person who’s been living beyond his means for the past 12 months.
With impeccable timing, Jacob Zuma arrived in London exactly seven years after the charges of a "conspiracy to harm the president" laid against three of Thabo Mbeki’s putative rivals in April 2001. Seven years on, the new ANC leadership — including one of the alleged conspirator Mathews Phosa, as party treasurer — was welcomed warmly in London.
Interest rates are set to rise again and food and petrol prices are increasing at alarming rates. For those who are desperate, the implementation of a couple of simple measures could save more than R1 000 a month.
Brazilian Joel Santana arrived in South Africa on Sunday to begin a 27-month contract as coach of 2010 World Cup hosts South Africa. He succeeds compatriot Carlos Alberto Parreira, the 1994 World Cup-winning coach who quit Bafana Bafana last month to be with his ill wife in Rio de Janeiro.
I switched on my television today for the first time in weeks. Who knew that working in Gordon Ramsay’s celebrity kitchen would be harder than flailing in a vat of worms or showing your pecs on the beach while making fire with a Zulu calabash? Next week someone is bound to cut off part of their finger and serve it to a leading critic by mistake.
South Africa’s ”awesome foursome” are making waves less than three months before the Olympic Games in Beijing — despite revelations that the support for the South African Olympic swimmers from Swimming South Africa could come to a halt, according to the Sunday newspaper Sondag.
The death of two Comrades Marathon runners last year could be a message from God that he was displeased with running the race on a Sunday, a Christian runner has suggested. Hansie Louw said in a statement at the weekend that he was asking all Christians to withdraw from the race.
John McCain is 71 years old, and his age has provided late-night TV comedians with some easy punch lines. On Saturday Night Live, he joined in. ”I ask you, what should we be looking for in our next president?” McCain said. ”Certainly, someone who is very, very, very old.”