A row has erupted over plans involving a bid by international primatologist Jane Goodall and South African National Parks CEO David Mabunda to rescue abused chimpanzees from Angola and give them sanctuary in South Africa. Seven chimps are destined to fly to the Umhloti sanctuary in Nelspruit in early September.
Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s announcement that the ”willing-seller, willing-buyer” system is to be reviewed is unlikely to bring radical changes to land purchases in South Africa, land specialists say. But Mlambo-Ngcuka’s announcement was a clear sign that the government realised South Africa’s land-reform programme was not yielding the desired results
The South African National Taxi Council has on the whole welcomed the taxi recapitalisation programme roll-out plan announced recently, but it has questioned key elements of the strategy. Santaco spokesperson Reggie Mutsi said that council welcomed the strategy as most of the issues it it had raised during its input into the revised programme had been incorporated in the new plan.
Britain, France and Germany are to promise Iran that it will not face military attack if it abandons enriching uranium, the key to building a nuclear bomb, a senior Iranian official said on Sunday. Both sides in the long-running dispute upped the ante at the weekend, with Tehran saying on Sunday that it would resume some nuclear fuel activities on Monday.
The Freedom Front Plus says it is to lay a charge of fraud against Imvume Management, the company involved in the so-called Oilgate scandal, on Monday. "If you ask for money for a specific purpose and you use that money for something else, that would constitute fraud," a party spokesperson said on Sunday.
South Africans tend to invest solely in actively managed funds, yet the latest study on active versus passive management released by Deutsche Securities suggests that active managers do not always add value relative to their costs, and that passive funds have a fundamental role in an investment portfolio.
Senior Inkatha Freedom Party officials say that IFP chairperson Ziba Jiyane has fallen into a carefully laid trap by letting himself be drawn into a public slanging match with party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi. A member of the party’s national executive committee told the <i>Mail & Guardian </i> that Buthelezi’s strategy was to "send out his lieutenants", to vilify Jiyane and draw him into political mudslinging.
For the first time in its history, Audi has outsold BMW and Mercedes-Benz in the first quarter of this year in Europe and a significant portion of those sales can be attributed to the new Audi A3 Sportback, which was launched in South Africa at the beginning of July.
The CLS is quite simply a perfect combination of elegance, comfort and performance. It’s the sort of car you can comfortably cruise around in when you don’t want to put much effort into driving and it’s the kind of car that transforms with the flick of a switch — almost like a superhero.
It seems that the venerable <i>Mail & Guardian</i> (well, at 20 years old, you’ve got to be able to claim the right to be a little venerable) was having a bad hair day last week. In the middle of the paper there was an old photo of the founding granddaddies of the establishment, Anton Harber and Irwin Manoim, disguised respectively as Elvis Presley and Art Garfunkel.