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/ 13 November 2007
Motorists are set to pay more for fuel during the peak holiday month of December, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Tuesday. The latest figures from the Central Energy Fund showed an under-recovery of 34 cents a litre on petrol. On diesel, it was between 31 and 32 cents a litre.
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/ 13 November 2007
A home is one of the biggest purchases most of us will ever make, and yet many of us rush into the buying decision only to regret it later on. "Conditions now favour buyers, so they should take their time and make certain that they really know what they are buying," says Saul Geffen, chief executive of MortgageSA.
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/ 13 November 2007
As a result of skills shortages, particularly at top executive level, candidates possessing scarce skills with the necessary experience to back them up are in the highest demand, locally and globally. Yet it is alarming that, in light of the current skills climate, interview processes are becoming more cumbersome and long-winded than ever.
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/ 13 November 2007
Despite a cooling in optimism toward holiday spending, South African consumers still remain more optimistic about their economy than all the other countries surveyed in an annual Deloitte year-end holiday survey and are likely to spend 12% more than in previous years.
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/ 13 November 2007
Forwards Danie Rossouw, Wickus van Heerden and Gurthro Steenkamp withdrew injured on Monday from South Africa’s short rugby tour of Britain. Star scrumhalf Fourie du Preez also looks like staying home and missing the Test against Wales at Cardiff and the celebration match with the Barbarians at Twickenham on December 1.
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/ 13 November 2007
New floods triggered by heavy rains in central Vietnam have claimed 11 more deaths and paralysed traffic, trapping thousands of tourists in popular resort areas, officials and local media reported on Tuesday. The remnants of Typhoon Peipah dumped heavy rains on to already flooded areas of the centre of Vietnam.
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/ 13 November 2007
The numbers of women seeking treatment for rape in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has risen as a conflict that has already left four million dead over the past decade has reignited. Human rights groups describe gang rapes as commonplace and often accompanied by ”barbaric” acts of torture.
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/ 13 November 2007
Motorists used to listening to the radio or their favourite tunes on CDs may have a new way to entertain themselves, after engineers in Japan developed a musical road surface. A team from the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute has built a number of ”melody roads”, which use cars as tuning forks to play music as they travel.
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/ 13 November 2007
France’s President, Nicolas Sarkozy, will on Tuesday night confront the biggest challenge yet to his six-month tenure, when transport and utility workers begin open-ended strike action that could paralyse the country, deepening the sense of a ”November of discontent”.
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/ 13 November 2007
The Finnish teenager responsible for a school massacre last week in which eight people were killed was in direct contact with an American pupil who has admitted planning a similar shooting spree near Philadelphia last month, a lawyer for the United States boy confirmed on Monday.