South African investment trust Hosken Consolidated Investments Limited, which is suspended from the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa pending the outcome of court action over its plans to delist, on Monday reported diluted headline earnings per share of 2,65 cents.
South African motorists have been warned that petrol could cost as much as R5 a litre. A few (sneaky) ways to modify your gas-guzzling habits include harnessing the power of gravity, souping up your vehicle, using veggie oil and driving barefoot. We tell you how.
The African Court for Human and Peoples’ Rights, one of the main organs designed to deal with human rights abuses on the African continent, is struggling to see the light of day. Commentators are suggesting it could only be formed next year, more than 12 months after its intended establishment.
Everybody should have a right to protect themselves from baseless and debasing sexual innuendo, particularly the kind that ridicules and humiliates. According to a United States federal judge, however, that right does not extend to dolls — even Barbie.
”I believe there was a desperate need for America and Britain to overthrow this fascist and dictatorial regime,” said Wadha Abdullah Hussein. ”I believe most Iraqis appreciate what the Americans and British have done in Iraq. Now we will go through a critical stage until the government and the elections are settled and I think that after elections the situation will improve.
French president Jacques Chirac bluntly told United States president George Bush to mind his own business on Monday when the United States president urged European leaders to give Turkey a firm date for starting European Union membership talks later this year. Bush, he complained, ”not only went too far but went on to territory which is not his own”.
Something happened in Baghdad on Monday, but what exactly? What we know is that somewhere in Saddam Hussein’s sprawling former cantonment on the banks of the Tigris, behind silver miles of new razor wire, an American bureaucrat handed a piece of paper to an Iraqi judge, jumped on a helicopter, and left the country.
The view from the Baghdad streets
It may seem as though Michael Schumacher and Ferrari will dominate formula one (F1) for the foreseeable future, but with a bit of research and crystal ball gazing it is possible to come up with a good prediction of who the team may be looking at as his successor.
Most of today’s of formula one drivers started out in karts and progressed to other highly competitive forms of racing — before getting their lucky break into the world’s best motorsport showcase. Kart racing enjoyed excellent support in South Africa in the early Nineties and boasted just less than 1 000 competitors in those days. Sadly numbers have dwindled over the years and presently there are about 430 competitors.
"When hell freezes over" took on a new meaning when BMW launched its new X3 recently. We were headed toward Die Hell: desolate, almost abandoned farmland high up in the Cape’s Swartberg mountains. But, the X3 was having little trouble dealing with mother nature. The tight, twisting curves of the stunningly beautiful Meiringspoort pass rarely slowed our pace.