Noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) are not things people usually think about when buying a car, but they can certainly become an annoyance after the purchase of a vehicle. NVH is exactly what the term implies and when manufacturers don’t pay attention to reducing it, their cars usually exhibit a great deal of road noise and other little annoyances that can cause a fair deal of discomfort.
Financial Mail</i> has appointed advertising agency rmg: connect/JWT Johannesburg in an exercise to build its brand and increase readership as rival Finweek’s circulation figures near <i>FM</i>’s 30,889.<
Primedia Unlimited, the advertising arm of Primedia, is spreading its wings into the United Arab Emirates in November, launching washroom adverts and kids’ shopping carts in Dubai malls in a first for the shopping mecca of the world.
The passing on of Professor Mazisi Kunene in Durban brings many thoughts of the past and the present to mind. Not least of these is how easy it is to forget the past and be ignorant of how figures from that past have influenced the present that we currently enjoy.
Lack of legislative clarity has left the life industry and its clients in limbo and set the industry back by up to a year in terms of issues around retirement annuity (RA) penalties. An Old Mutual client’s complaint to ITInews, an online life industry newsletter, highlighted this issue when she said that Old Mutual was refusing to credit her RA policy in accordance with a ruling by the Pension Funds Adjudicator.
Harvard-educated economist Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was inaugurated as Africa’s first elected woman president in January. The country’s elections came after 15 years of civil war that ended in 2003. That year also marked an end to armed conflicts with neighbouring countries and United Nations sanctions.
Playing heavy metal in Iran has its complications. The bassist for Kahtmayan says he has to plead with the audience not to dance when his band performs. The ayatollahs do allow heavy metal bands in Iran, but they don’t allow anyone to dance, as Dan de Luce reports.
Walls plastered with campaign posters from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s historic elections are newly peppered with bullet holes. Tank fire has smashed buildings just down the bloodstained streets from voting centres in the war-battered capital. Balloting was meant to bring a final closure to the Central African nation’s 1996 to 2002 conflict.
An Oscar-nominated documentary highlighting links between fish from Lake Victoria and the arms trade has drawn a furious reaction from Tanzania’s president and led to harassment of people involved in the film. President Jakaya Kikwete said Darwin’s Nightmare, a film by Austrian director Hubert Sauper, had hurt the country’s image and caused a slump in exports of Nile perch.
The recent flow of news from around the world suggests that the balance of world economic power may finally be swinging away from the United States towards Japan and Europe, which have lagged behind for many years. In the past three years the world economy has put in its fastest growth spurt for decades.