Advantage Asset Managers’ chief investment strategist Wayne McCurrie said in Pretoria on Tuesday afternoon that fair value for the rand was R7 to R8 to the dollar over two to three years, but that 50% of this had suddenly happened in the last month and a half.
As a child, Graham Ford dreamed of playing cricket on the English county circuit. He never realised that ambition but as director of cricket at Kent, he has helped a raft of other South Africans to do so. Although he is adamant that it was never his intention, Ford has overseen the establishment of a virtual South African colony in Canterbury.
Knowledge of available treatment options and the significance of drug resistance has declined in patients infected with HIV, the virus that causes Aids, according to results of a survey presented on Tuesday. ”In the early days of HIV, patients often understood the science of HIV as much as most clinicians,” said Dr Howard Grossman.
The vice-president of southern Sudan is clearly losing his patience. It is July 12 and Riek Machar has been camped out here in a remote jungle clearing for five days, waiting to meet the elusive leader of Uganda’s notorious Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) — self-proclaimed prophet and mystic Joseph Kony.
The death toll from a tsunami that hit the southern coast of Indonesia’s main island of Java on Monday has reached 525, according to the country’s national coordinating body for disaster management. Rescue workers dug with bare hands on Wednesday in a grim search for more bodies after a second tsunami to strike Indonesia in as many years.
At first glance the plot seems unpromising. At the end of the 18th century two brilliant young Germans attempt to measure the world. One of them is Alexander von Humboldt, whose journeys in South America see him hack through the jungle, crawl into caves and count lice on the natives.
United States entertainment giant the Walt Disney announced on Tuesday it is cutting 650 jobs and will reduce the number of movies made each year as part of a major restructuring plan. Walt Disney Studios chairperson Dick Cook said in a statement that the studio will produce and distribute approximately 10 Disney live-action and animated films a year.
Most people who like to think they know a great deal about cars will tell you that any red-blooded motoring enthusiast has at some point in his/her life owned an Alfa Romeo. That may or may not be the case, but if there’s one common denominator about Alfas of the past, it’s the way in which their owners speak about them, writes Sukasha Singh.
The United States is giving Israel a window of a week to inflict maximum damage on Hezbollah before weighing in behind international calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, according to British, European and Israeli sources. The Bush administration, backed by Britain, has blocked efforts for an immediate halt to the fighting initiated at the United Nations Security Council.
Denis Hirson’s <i>We Walk Straight So You Better Get Out the Way</i> is a funny, moving and tender book. It ultimately tells us more about our country than many a more obviously serious work, writes Pat Schwartz.