Sometimes I wonder if the fitness industry is secretly having a laugh at our expense. I wonder whether the big-wigs of the gym world sit on exercise bikes in some glossy aerobics studio, brainstorming the most outlandish ideas for new fitness crazes that will leave us looking as ludicrous as possible.
In January, during an interview, Mark Wurr, head of trading for Global Trader, said: "What this market needs is a nice 10% to 15% clean-out. A nice sell-off would bring foreigners back into the market." Traders love volatility and Wurr is seeing quite a shake-up at the moment, with the markets all over the place as data from the United States housing market sent shockwaves across the world this week.
Heavily armed gangs raided three cash vans in and around Johannesburg on Thursday, taking undisclosed amounts of money. The first gang struck at the Midas store in Luipardsvlei, Krugersdorp, at 9.30am. The three men had apparently been waiting inside the store when two unsuspecting guards went in with cash containers, spokesperson Captain Sphiwe Ndlovu said.
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South Africa wicketkeeper Mark Boucher on Thursday said he was ready to stand up on the slow West Indian pitches during the World Cup. ”I think standing up is something that all keepers expect when they come to the West Indies because these are like the subcontinent conditions when you have to do that sort of thing,” Boucher said.
It was only a matter of time following the recent round of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe before the world’s foreign ministers started harrumphing.
Leaders and MPs of five opposition parties in Lesotho’s 120-member Parliament started an indefinite sit-in at the Parliament buildings on Thursday. They have called on their supporters and the Basotho nation at large to stay away from work from Monday next week.
Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown last year offered to quit his position in a bid to stave off curatorship, according to a document handed in at his bail hearing on Thursday. The document, a letter from Fidentia’s lawyers to the Financial Services Board, was attached to an affidavit by Brown setting out the reasons he thought he should be granted bail.
South Africa needs to step up its development of people working in the field of nuclear energy and technology, Minister of Science and Technology Mosibudi Mangena said on Thursday at the opening of the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy conference at Gallagher Estate in Midrand, Gauteng.
The African National Congress (ANC) parliamentary caucus has rejected the portfolio committee on correctional services’ call for a fresh investigation into Annanias Mathe’s escape from C-Max high-security prison, saying it has confidence in the agencies that probed the prisoner’s escape.
A defiant Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe told critics of his government to ”go hang” themselves on Thursday in his first response to the arrest and assault of opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai. After talks with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, the veteran leader accused Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change of instigating violence.