One bright entrepreneur has found the solution for those wishing to indulge to their hearts content without the fear of landing up with a hefty fine, suspended sentence or even jail term. Formed just more than 18 months ago by Adrian Bradley, a BCom graduate, the company seems set to grow in leaps and bounds.
Resurrecting a city is not an easy task. But careful planning, lots of imagination and dollops of persuasion have certainly worked for Neil Fraser, the mastermind behind the rejuvenation of Johannesburg. Fraser heads up the Central Johannesburg Partnership, a company that specialises in creating sound property investments in the city for those that have an eye for the future and a flair for entrepreneurship.
The Volkswagen Golf, now in its fifth incarnation, has been with us for 30 years. In that time, the mother and father of all hatchbacks aimed to become the Beetle of its era, and ended up outselling it. Twenty-two million volks have bought this wagen. And after 30 years of searching for flaws in the Golf, we still haven’t found one.
Two weeks ago, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan named the Danish civil servant Soren Jessen-Petersen as his new representative in Kosovo, almost five years to the day after Nato proclaimed its victory in its war against the Yugoslav army. A time, then, for celebration and moving forward? Not a bit. Violence will escalate in Kosovo if the UN’s new representative fails to get the international community to deliver support.
Because the stuff the financial sector works with — money — can roam the world, it can make itself scarce, hence artificially valuable. So governments must woo capital-owners by competing with other governments to enhance the share of the national cake that goes to people with money — especially by ensuring low wages and taxes. The financial sector has huge influence, yet contributes little to growth and jobs.
"People don’t want a war unless you absolutely have to have one, but the media would not present the possibility that there were alternatives — so therefore we went to war very much in the manner of a totalitarian society." That’s Noam Chomsky, responding to questions about the media’s role in the first Gulf War. CNN boss Chris Cramer assures Kevin Bloom that the network has no pro-American agenda.
Andy Roddick and Sjeng Schalken share a bond that goes beyond tennis. Two months ago, Roddick helped Schalken escape from a hotel fire in Rome that killed three people. Now their paths are crossing again — in the Wimbledon quarterfinals. Roddick advanced to the final eight with a win on Monday.
Jonny Shuping, a small South African schoolboy from Klerksdorp who will only turn 20 in September, recorded the biggest win so far of his career when he won the 800m at the 56th Venezelia International Athletics meeting in Chania, Greece, on Monday with a time of one minute and 47,31 seconds.
The Sharks have pulled the proverbial rabbit out of the hat at the eleventh hour with the arrival of Free State flyhalf Conrad Barnard in Durban to do service for the Sharks for the rest of the Absa Currie Cup this season. Butch James has been ruled out for the remainder of the year with an anterior cruciate ligament injury.
Janus Robberts, the 25-year-old South African shot-putter, provided one of the top performances at the 11th Josef Odlozil Memorial athletics meeting in Prague on Monday with an excellent winning distance of 21,24m. Also, Llewellyn Herbert, the South African record holder in the 400m hurdles, easily won his speciality.