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/ 31 October 2007
President Thabo Mbeki told lawmakers in Namibia on Tuesday that the two neighbours’ destinies were inextricably linked as he oversaw a new push to boost cross-border trade. After talks with host President Hifikepunye Pohamba, Mbeki was accorded the honour of addressing Parliament in Windhoek.
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/ 31 October 2007
World number four Ernie Els lashed out Wednesday at the European Tour for ”screwing up” their dates by scheduling the Volvo Masters to clash with the Barclays Singapore Open. Els leads the European Order of Merit by €222 000 from Ireland’s Padraig Harrington but is unable to play at the Masters in Spain this week.
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/ 31 October 2007
Merrill Lynch parted company on Tuesdya with its chief executive, Stan O’Neal, leaving the investment bank’s leadership in a state of limbo and prompting unease on Wall Street. After days of speculation, Merrill announced that O’Neal (56) had decided to retire with immediate effect.
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/ 31 October 2007
A magnitude 5,6 earthquake struck in a rural area about 15km north-east of San Jose, California, Silicon Valley’s biggest city, on Tuesday night, causing minor damage. The earthquake was felt across the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond just before 3.05am GMT on Wednesday.
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/ 31 October 2007
Today in South Africa we have a growing element of people who, because of the level of brutality they exhibit, could be classified as feral in their actions — feral meaning wild and untamed, as defined by the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, writes Mary R Tomlinson.
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/ 31 October 2007
The continuing succession debate in the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) should focus more on devising strategies to manage the change of leadership and less on bashing party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi over perceptions that he is clinging to power, argues Zukile Majova.
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/ 31 October 2007
The Gautrain is South Africa’s biggest and most ambitious public transport project yet. Once it is completed, Pretoria, Johannesburg and OR Tambo airport will be linked via 80km of rail, some of it underground, and 10 new stations. The link between the airport and Sandton will be completed in time for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
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/ 31 October 2007
The Big Game was a victory for The Real Man and a crushing defeat for the illusion that we will ever admire anything as much as a good bit of bone-crunching. Sure, we’ll nod and smile in the general direction of the man wearing the Amanda Laird Cherry shirt and the baby carrier. Even rugby players appear in <i>GQ</i> and <i>Cosmo</i> Man spreads, wearing fine suits and not running into one another.
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/ 31 October 2007
As is the case elsewhere in the world, South Africans who are materially better off report relatively greater levels of subjective well-being. But while marriage is a recipe for higher levels of happiness in the industrialised world, empirical research suggests that marital status plays no significant role in influencing South Africans’ happiness levels.
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/ 31 October 2007
Who is responsible for developing skills in South Africa? Big business or government? With the new Immigration Amendment Act that comes into operation at the end of this year, the issue of skills development and importing skilled people from foreign countries will be highlighted again.