Turkey was not invited to Europe’s big birthday bash on Sunday despite being an official candidate for European Union membership. Ankara expressed disappointment at a "missed opportunity". Media reaction to the perceived snub was sharper.
House price growth is expected to resume its slowing trend this year due to slower economic growth and the lagged impact of last year’s interest rate hikes, a property strategist said on Monday. John Loos, property strategist at FNB commercial banking, said that a more sustained strengthening was only anticipated from 2008 on.
Inspired by the success of up-market wine centres in California and Australia, a French wine merchant from Bordeaux this month opened a new â,¬20-million complex, the first of its kind in France. The 12Â 000 square metre Winery is the inspiration of fourth-generation Bordeaux wine merchant and mail-order specialist Philippe Raoux, who owns Chateau d’Arsac, next door to the complex.
The steaming sands of El-Alamein, where German and Allied tanks fought fiercely during World War II, are being readied for a boom in tourism, but only once the landmines are cleared. The potentially lucrative tourism industry on Egypt’s north coast is being cautiously developed on one of the most heavily mined bits of real estate in the world.
The death toll in Thursday’s explosions at a Maputo armoury has reached 100 while about 500 people were injured. Mozambique Health Minister Ivo Garrido said the number could increase as some victims were still in critical condition at Maputo central hospital.
South Africa is facing a serious information technology (IT) skills deficit mostly due to a lack of training, said an IT trainer on Monday. ”We are not seeing a big enough inflow into the economy of IT and engineering graduates,” said director of black-empowered IT training company IT Intellect, Peter Denny, in a statement.
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A week after the murder of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, Jamaican police sifted through security video for clues on Sunday. They denied any knowledge of a row reported in media involving Pakistani players and coaches after a shocking World Cup loss to Ireland.
Biofuel and renewable energy sources may hold the key to Africa’s energy crisis. Without intervention, this crisis is set to grow — among others, in Southern African cities such as Lusaka in Zambia, Harare in Zimbabwe, Gaborone in Botswana and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
Two months ago I stopped using Opera — the smallest, once the fastest and often the best browser built to date. Opera had all the good ideas years before everyone else. It had tabbed browsing in 1997, and proper CSS support in the same year, long before there was any proper CSS to decode.
The web revolution that is turning whole industries from music to television upside down has been slow to reach the cosy world of books — apart, that is, from the pioneering bookseller Amazon. Not any more. Interesting things are happening on a variety of fronts that are changing the way books are found, read and talked about.