United States President George Bush claimed on Thursday that at least 10 al-Qaeda attacks had been thwarted since September 11, including three inside the US, during an impassioned speech in which he defended the war in Iraq and the wider fight against terrorism.
Maybe the Pathfinder weighs as much as a Sherman tank, maybe it could drink a Kuwaiti oil well dry, and maybe it’s a bit of a bitch to park, but I actually don’t give a toss. I love it. I love the feeling of security you get from being able to see over all the cars in a traffic jam.
Telkom’s billing structure allows for profit margins of up to 1 500% on some calls, according to a report asking for telecommunications reform. The report, titled <i>Reforming Tele-communications in South Africa: Twelve Steps for Lowering Costs and Improving Access</i>, states that cellphone operators charge Telkom an interconnection fee to terminate a call on its network.
The oil industry in South Africa is doing more than nicely thank-you from government-controlled fuel margins that appear extremely generous compared with those in markets Australia and the United States. All three — South Africa, Australia and the US — have a high reliance on private transport. Fuel prices this week topped R6 a litre in Gauteng for the first time.
Recently the Pension Funds Adjudicator (PFA), Vuyani Ngalwana issued rulings on a further 22 retirement annuities (RAs). Life companies have chosen to settle 15 of these rather than face the negative publicity. This brings to 54 the total number of RA rulings since March. The life companies are appealing seven of these in the High Court.
Three hours of standing in a queue for maize meal looked like it was about to pay off when the line suddenly disintegrated amid despairing groans and some furious name calling. The supermarket had just run out of Zimbabwe’s staple food. Shoppers in Bulawayo are rationed to 10kg of maize meal per person, but finding it — and, indeed, most other basic essentials — on the shelves is no easy matter.
I am one of the privileged few in South Africa who has had access to wealth and, through wealth, to education. I live in a nice Cape Town home with a char and a gardener who help me uphold my lifestyle. Domestic help is the norm and as a white woman in her 30s, I have never known our household without a maid of some sort.
Ntsundukazi Mvandaba and her family were the envy of the neighbours they left behind when they moved from the Mandela informal settlement to proper houses in Delpark, both in Delmas. They moved five years ago into an Reconstruction and Development Programme house: unplastered and small, but the first real home for this family from the Eastern Cape.
First National Bank (FNB) has obtained a 67,74% reach in under-serviced areas over the past two years in its drive to meet the Financial Sector Charter targets, which require 80% of low-income earners to be within 15km of a banking facility. The roll-out of 1Â 400 mini-ATMs across the country has been a major part of FNB’s strategy to reach isolated communities.
The National Intelligence Agency’s counsel at the Khampepe commission, George Bizos, struck the right note this week on the question of oversight of the specialised crime-fighting unit, the Scorpions. If there were problems with controls over the Scorpions, Bizos argued, these could be specifically addressed, without the police having to swallow the unit — head, body and sting.