Honda has launched a brand-new version of their big adventure twin, the Varadero. The 996cc V-twin engine – derived from the VTR 1000F – has shed its two big-bore flat-side carburettors in favour of Honda’s PGM-F1 programmed fuel-injection system
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was roaring ahead just after noon on Thursday, fuelled by stronger world markets and a weaker rand. Softer-than-expected producer inflation (PPI) numbers added to the positive picture. By 12h16, the all share index had strengthened 1,72%.
Impulse publishing has become a trend in the magazine sector, and more titles are focusing on advertising revenue at the expense of the reader. Gordon Patterson, managing director of leading media agency Starcom, explains the problem.
The SABC estimates that the two new regional television channels will cost R221-million apiece to operate in the first year. Mike Aldridge looks at the viability of a public television model that won’t take ads and won’t broadcast in English.
The ANC’s election strategy pulled the rug from under the media, argues Professor Tawana Kupe. Why was their communications plan, which centred around President Mbeki, so successful?
If a nation’s character can be deduced from its music then fado, Portugal’s lilting Latinate blues, says much about the natural disposition of the people. Literally translated as ”fate”, fado captures perfectly the melancholic world view shared by many of the country’s 10,3-million citizens.
The Zimbabwean cricket crisis and past controversies over the use of player commercial rights will be high on the agenda of next week’s meeting in London of the Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (Fica). Fica is the international body consisting of player associations from most of the test playing countries.
Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter on Thursday named 28 players for next Saturday’s 2006 World Cup qualifier against Burkina Faso at Olen Park, Potchefstroom. The squad will be trimmed to 18 players next Tuesday.
France vs Greece looks like the biggest mismatch of the Euro 2004 quarterfinals. Defending champion France has won three major international trophies; the Greeks just a single match. ”Every team has its possibilities, and so do we,” said midfielder Vassilis Tsiartas, whose Greek side is the revelation of Euro 2004.
Oom Krisjan knows how unpalatable an unpalatable task can be. Such as when a recalcitrant mare needs to be inseminated. But never do the manne of the Marico shirk their duties. So it was with sympathy that the Oom saw the task a Parliamentary ad hoc committee had been given: to judge right and wrong in the battle between the Protector and the Prosecutor