Okay, I’m going to die now. That is it, there is no way I’m going to survive this. We’re doing nearly 270kph, coming very close to what looks like a 90° corner and this dude has no intention of braking. Hope I’ve been good enough in this life to ensure that I don’t come back as a dung beetle in my next life (not that I believe people reincarnate into insects and animals, but that’s not the point).
United Kingdom-headquartered cellphone giant Vodafone, is dangling a R60-billion carrot that would represent the country’s largest foreign investment to date, dwarfing the R33-billion Barclays invested for a controlling stake in Absa.
Laptop sales have overtaken desktop sales in the United Kingdom, according to retailer PC World. This may not have happened in South Africa yet, but booming laptop sales are great for this country, which produces 77% of the world’s platinum.
Platinum and some of its five sister metals are key ingredients in laptops.
KwaZulu-Natal media have started to take its Zulu-speaking audience seriously, as it realises where the new spending power lies. Matebello Motloung reports.
The first full-scale audit of how the G8 group of leading industrialised nations has performed on its promises to the world’s poor since last year’s Gleneagles summit has revealed that rich countries are failing to meet almost all the targets they set themselves.
Three months after achieving straight As in his performance review as CEO of Johnnic Communications, Connie Molusi was suspended on full pay ”pending the outcome of the hearing to consider his performance”, according to a statement released by the group recently.
With two weeks to go before Vladimir Putin hosts the G8’s first summit in Russia, criticisms are pouring in from Western think tanks and politicians. Some are legitimate, but many are wildly prejudiced. Russophobia is back. In the latter category was a speech by the United States Vice-President, Dick Cheney, in Lithuania.
With a massive golden cross in her outstretched hand and a tear on her cheek, Lady Liberation looms nine storeys over the birthplace of rock’n’roll. She bears a remarkable resemblance to New York’s Statue of Liberty, but this Memphis, Tennessee, replica has a very different message.
Recently Eads, the majority owner of Airbus, put an end to the crisis that has crippled it for more than two weeks by forcing the resignations of Noel Forgeard, its joint chief executive, and Gustav Humbert, the head of the European plane maker.
North Korea’s reckless and provocative firing of missiles over the Sea of Japan has brought a stale, but unmistakable, whiff of Cold War days. The difference between now and a few decades ago is the near universal condemnation of the ”hermit kingdom” by the United States, Japan, Russia and Europe. Only China’s reaction was muted.