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/ 13 November 2007
A home is one of the biggest purchases most of us will ever make, and yet many of us rush into the buying decision only to regret it later on. "Conditions now favour buyers, so they should take their time and make certain that they really know what they are buying," says Saul Geffen, chief executive of MortgageSA.
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/ 13 November 2007
Despite a cooling in optimism toward holiday spending, South African consumers still remain more optimistic about their economy than all the other countries surveyed in an annual Deloitte year-end holiday survey and are likely to spend 12% more than in previous years.
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/ 13 November 2007
Slowly but surely, South African midfielder Steven Pienaar is recapturing the form that made him one of the most sought-after players in Europe in his early 20s. Pienaar is now a regular starter for Everton, and impressed in patches during his team’s creditable 1-1 draw at 2005 and 2006 Premier League champions Chelsea on Sunday.
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/ 13 November 2007
Forwards Danie Rossouw, Wickus van Heerden and Gurthro Steenkamp withdrew injured on Monday from South Africa’s short rugby tour of Britain. Star scrumhalf Fourie du Preez also looks like staying home and missing the Test against Wales at Cardiff and the celebration match with the Barbarians at Twickenham on December 1.
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/ 13 November 2007
A series of successes by recent mothers has prompted questions whether childbirth, far from spelling the end of a sporting career, can actually boost an athlete’s performance. Paula Radcliffe has a sensational New York Marathon win this month, after having her first child in January.
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/ 13 November 2007
New floods triggered by heavy rains in central Vietnam have claimed 11 more deaths and paralysed traffic, trapping thousands of tourists in popular resort areas, officials and local media reported on Tuesday. The remnants of Typhoon Peipah dumped heavy rains on to already flooded areas of the centre of Vietnam.
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/ 13 November 2007
Pakistani police put opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for a week on Tuesday to thwart a protest procession as President Pervez Musharraf came under growing international pressure to end emergency rule. Military ruler Musharraf set off a storm of criticism when he imposed emergency rule on November 3.
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/ 13 November 2007
Hazel Friedman, winner of this year’s Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award, believes she has passed through all the trenches of this industry.
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/ 13 November 2007
The numbers of women seeking treatment for rape in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has risen as a conflict that has already left four million dead over the past decade has reignited. Human rights groups describe gang rapes as commonplace and often accompanied by ”barbaric” acts of torture.
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/ 13 November 2007
Motorists used to listening to the radio or their favourite tunes on CDs may have a new way to entertain themselves, after engineers in Japan developed a musical road surface. A team from the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute has built a number of ”melody roads”, which use cars as tuning forks to play music as they travel.