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/ 29 November 2005
Thanks to prices that are starting to look like telephone numbers, petrol is becoming a grudge purchase, like tyres. With that in mind, fuel companies and their allied filling stations are improving their acts — rarely do you get bad service and the forecourts are generally clean and accessible.
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/ 29 November 2005
Yamaha’s MT-01 is not a superbike. At 240kg without any fuel on board it’s about 70kg overweight for the racetrack, and with just 90 ponies held captive in its behemoth 1670cc engine, it’s not powerful enough to kick any modern superbike’s backside at high speed. But the big V-twin has enough going for it to make it a great real-world motorcycle despite these apparent disadvantages.
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/ 29 November 2005
I couldn’t think of a better way in which to put the new Mercedes-Benz C320 CDi through its paces than a road trip. So my mum, my sister and I packed everything but the kitchen sink and set off to Durban at 4.30am. The air was crisp and the roads were mostly clear, so it was the perfect opportunity for some spirited driving.
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/ 29 November 2005
It was very clever of the Hyundai marketing folk to have a few models of the outgoing Sonata in the showroom with the new Sonata, simply because the new one is a revolutionary departure from the old in just about every aspect. The exterior styling is the most notable improvement.
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/ 29 November 2005
South Africa’s real gross domestic product (GDP) at market prices on a quarter-on-quarter seasonally annualised and adjusted basis rose by 4,2% in the third quarter of 2005 from a revised 5,4% (original estimate was a 4,8% gain) in the second quarter, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday.
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/ 29 November 2005
Jomo Sono might have been expected to hit the ceiling when the Premier Soccer League on Monday announced the rain-postponed league game between his Jomo Cosmos team and Golden Arrows had been rescheduled for Tuesday — a mere 96 hours before the Coca-Cola Cup final against Supersport United in Polokwane on Saturday.
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/ 29 November 2005
More than 60% of people infected with HIV/Aids call Africa their home — and Southern Africa remains the epicentre of the global Aids epidemic, according to the United Nations’s report on the pandemic that was released recently. Despite some light points, the UNAids report paints a bleak picture of a region where the virus is having a devastating toll on human lives.
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/ 29 November 2005
Picture yourself as an HIV-positive teenager who logs on to the loveLife website for advice. Firstly, you would find the devastating (and untrue) information that after 10 years of anti-retroviral treatment "you will eventually die from Aids-related causes or the side effects of the drugs".
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/ 29 November 2005
BMW initiated a major proactive campaign against HIV/Aids in 2000 with the launch of its HIV/Aids policy. The purpose of the campaign is to reduce the effect of the disease on employees, their families and the company. The programme focuses on self-responsibility and taking ownership of the disease by knowing one’s status.
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/ 29 November 2005
HIV stands for "human immunodeficiency virus". It is a retrovirus. This means that the virus uses the body’s own cells to reproduce itself. While several theories exist, the origin of this virus is still unclear. We explain how HIV is transmitted and how it makes people sick.