Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade said on Monday he would travel to Zimbabwe this month to recommend multilateral mediation by African heads of state to try to solve the crisis in the Southern African country. ”Mbeki is a man of goodwill … [but] we should tackle the problem at the level of several heads of state, including Thabo Mbeki,” he said.
A suicide bomber killed 12 Afghan police on a bus in Kabul on Tuesday, a police official said, the second such attack in the capital in four days. ”The report we have indicates that so far 12 police have been killed and 15 wounded,” said the official who declined to be named.
Fearing that it will lose out financially, much of the book industry is resisting internet pioneers’ vision of putting the world’s entire store of published information online. Some European libraries have portrayed the bid to digitise 500 years of books and newspapers as an imperialist plot.
The 1 000 Darfur rebels waited until sunset, the end of the Ramadan fast, to begin their assault. Some of the outgunned African peacekeepers, caught by surprise, fought back. Others fled into the scrublands, and at the end 10 of them were dead.
The new Toyota Corolla appeals at a more primal level than pure logic dictates. It’s better looking by far than its predecessor, having lost that chunky styling, and it’s fun to drive. The car feels like a quality European offering, and even the base model is pretty well specced. Gavin Foster reports.
Looking back on Toyota’s 50 years in motorsport, it’s easy to see why this manufacturer continues to be at the forefront of global vehicle manufacturing. To commemorate its 50th motorsport anniversary, Toyota opted for its main celebrations to take place at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in Winchester, England.
Tina Eboka follows the YWCA motto, “Lift as you climb”, as she makes her way up the corporate ladder. In line with this way of thinking, Eboka has served as mentor to “too many people to list”. The Standard Bank Group Executive: Corporate Affairs believes that mentoring is good for succession planning and sustainable growth and that if well planned it does not consume that much of an individual’s time.
The face of business in South Africa is changing, with female executives breaking through the “glass ceiling” and being placed in top positions, says Tshidi Mokgabudi, Executive Director, KPMG. Progress has been made by women in the more than 10 years of South Africa’s democracy but, she believes, there is still a long way to go.
“We live in a world that is dynamic, where people have to draw from diverse areas of expertise to succeed in their particular industry.” This, says Dr Namane Magau, of Tshelane Basadi Investors and a member of the International Women’s Forum of South Africa (IWFSA), is why mentors should not limit exposure to people in the same industry.
“Often our time and effort is shared without reward except for the greater reward that we have been instrumental in developing someone within the company who becomes an essential member of the ‘family’ and who can be recognised for their potential in our field of expertise.”