South Korea’s president arrived in hermit North Korea’s capital on Tuesday to cheering crowds and a dour leader Kim Jong-il for only the second summit between two states still technically at war. South Korea’s Roh Moo-hyun has billed his first trip to the communist North as a chance to end animosity born with the partition of the Korean peninsula.
Pakistani opposition lawyers made a last-ditch effort on Tuesday to block President Pervez Musharraf’s re-election, telling the Supreme Court as army chief he should be ineligible and Saturday’s vote should be postponed. Once re-elected Musharraf has vowed to quit as army chief and become a civilian leader.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Veronica Devine is passionate about the upliftment and empowerment of people, in particular women. The CEO of Virgin Cosmetics and Jewellery Africa considers mentoring important and an investment in an individual’s future. “It gives the mentee an opportunity to select a role model of her choice, to guide her, a person who has a personal and professional interest in her succes, says Devine"
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.