Standard Bank, which garners the largest chunk of the credit-card market in South Africa, and First National Bank have both managed to increase their share of the market at the expense of the country’s other major banks. According to a new analysis, the overdraft market seems to be a more competitive area of banking.
Higher fuel costs have hit rural bed-and-breakfast (B&B) establishments hard this year, as companies have had to raise fuel allowances due to higher fuel costs for their commercial travellers visiting rural areas, while cutting their accommodation allowances to keep down the overall cost per sale.
It can safely be assumed that Jack Nicklaus did not grow up with a burning ambition to win the Telus Skins Game, a made-for-television marketing event disguised as a Canadian golf tournament, but put a club in the hands the greatest player of all time and he just cannot help himself.
Minutes after the explosions in central London, a quiet room inside the ambulance service headquarters on Waterloo Road became the heart of the capital’s emergency response. A chamber usually used for low-priority calls was transformed in a short space of time into the ”gold control room” — the communications centre for hundreds of ambulance workers.
A leading international agricultural policy group on Thursday urged African nations to drop opposition to biotechnology crop research and genetically modified foods, saying such a step could dramatically improve food security on the impoverished continent.
The Mail & Guardian sent detailed questions to Sandi Majali and Imvume; Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and her former Minerals and Energy Department; the ANC, Kgalema Motlanthe and Mendi Msimang; and the Strategic Fuel Fund Association (SFF), and Riaz Jawoodeen, the former SFF director.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Thursday said his government should have emphasised the ”reconstruction aspect” of a controversial programme of shack demolitions that human rights groups say has left at least 300Â 000 people homeless.
Little wonder general manager Stanley ”Screamer” Tshabalala was cooing like a dove on Thursday after it was confirmed Bafana Bafana will play Panama in the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Gold Cup tournament at Houston’s ultra-modern Reliant Stadium on Sunday.
I am enraged at the utter crassness, crudity and weapons-grade stupidity of whatever organisation now manufactures and sells the almost immortal game of Scrabble. I went to buy a new Scrabble set the other day. The box was marked Original Scrabble and, like a fool, I took that on trust.
A smiling Eddie Jones is Napoleoning up and down a rugby pitch at this very moment with Jake White’s jewels in the left side pocket of his tracksuit top. And he is squeezing them very, very hard. Jones has good reason to be basking in this savoury glow of satisfaction.