The search was continuing on Monday morning for two men who crashed into the sea with their microlight aircraft near Port St Johns, the National Sea Rescue Institute said. ”Both men are missing and presumed to be deceased,” spokesperson Craig Lambinon said.
Burned out, injured and all but forgotten for two years, Se Ri Pak returned to the spotlight in stunning fashion when she hit a utility club 8cm from the cup to give her a play-off victory over Karrie Webb in the LPGA Championship on Sunday.
Pak atoned for a three-putt bogey on the 18th hole in regulation.
Maybe what Roger Federer needs in order to beat Rafael Nadal is a change of scenery. Bring on the grass. The lawn tennis season begins this week — just the thing to put a little spring back in Federer’s step. He’ll start preparations for Wimbledon by playing in Germany this week after losing to Nadal in the French Open final.
At the beginning of the year we said that we were pro equities — not because we were necessarily bullish, but because the environment at the time of low inflation and low interest rates, fuelling a rampant consumer, was more conducive to equities than bonds or cash.
Banking group Absa plans to spend R80-million on the upgrade and expansion of its automated teller machines (ATMs) and network of kiosks in the current financial year to the end of December 2006. The expansion will comprise 350 new ATMs, 115 self-service kiosks (non-cash terminals) and 250 internet kiosks.
Sounds of Zulu war dances and a military parade filled the air on Sunday as South Africans hailed a Zulu hero whose rebellion a century ago sowed the first seeds of black resistance. Soldiers and Zulu warriors, dressed in traditional leopard skins, joined thousands to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bhambatha rebellion, an event that had huge ramifications in South African history.
A colleague recently calculated that if she had used bundled account pricing on her bank account she would have saved R3Â 500 in bank fees a year. That is a huge sum of money. A survey conducted by Pick ‘n Pay banking shows that, while most people feel their banking fees are too high, many have no idea what those fees are, writes Maya Fisher-French.
The Competition Commission’s probe into bank fees is yet to be formalised, but already there are signs of major price cuts and new competitive winds beginning to blow in the sector. Nedbank, one of the Big Four, this weekend announces fee reductions averaging 13% across the board.
Jeremy Cronin’s article ("What kind of presidency," May 26) should kick off a real debate. I have always enjoyed reading Cronin and believe his views are sobering for a developmental state like South Africa. However, in this article, he stumbles. To blame South Africa’s problems on a powerfully managed presidency does not add up.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid back below the 11 000 mark in early trading on Tuesday after falling nearly 200 points on Monday, as Ben Bernanke’s baptism of fire as chairperson of the United States Federal Reserve prompted a fresh bout of jitters on Wall Street.