The commissioner of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU) has spelt out four major obstacles to ending conflict on the continent. At a meeting at the AU’s headquarters in Addis Ababa, Said Djinnit said limited resources, lack of support for peacekeeping operations and poor conflict early warning systems all served to hamper efforts to resolve the conflicts ravaging Africa.
South African investment trust Hosken Consolidated Investments Limited, which is suspended from the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa pending the outcome of court action over its plans to delist, on Monday reported diluted headline earnings per share of 2,65 cents.
Everybody should have a right to protect themselves from baseless and debasing sexual innuendo, particularly the kind that ridicules and humiliates. According to a United States federal judge, however, that right does not extend to dolls — even Barbie.
”I believe there was a desperate need for America and Britain to overthrow this fascist and dictatorial regime,” said Wadha Abdullah Hussein. ”I believe most Iraqis appreciate what the Americans and British have done in Iraq. Now we will go through a critical stage until the government and the elections are settled and I think that after elections the situation will improve.
Something happened in Baghdad on Monday, but what exactly? What we know is that somewhere in Saddam Hussein’s sprawling former cantonment on the banks of the Tigris, behind silver miles of new razor wire, an American bureaucrat handed a piece of paper to an Iraqi judge, jumped on a helicopter, and left the country.
The view from the Baghdad streets
French president Jacques Chirac bluntly told United States president George Bush to mind his own business on Monday when the United States president urged European leaders to give Turkey a firm date for starting European Union membership talks later this year. Bush, he complained, ”not only went too far but went on to territory which is not his own”.
"When hell freezes over" took on a new meaning when BMW launched its new X3 recently. We were headed toward Die Hell: desolate, almost abandoned farmland high up in the Cape’s Swartberg mountains. But, the X3 was having little trouble dealing with mother nature. The tight, twisting curves of the stunningly beautiful Meiringspoort pass rarely slowed our pace.
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.