Honda has launched a brand-new version of their big adventure twin, the Varadero. The 996cc V-twin engine – derived from the VTR 1000F – has shed its two big-bore flat-side carburettors in favour of Honda’s PGM-F1 programmed fuel-injection system
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was roaring ahead just after noon on Thursday, fuelled by stronger world markets and a weaker rand. Softer-than-expected producer inflation (PPI) numbers added to the positive picture. By 12h16, the all share index had strengthened 1,72%.
Impulse publishing has become a trend in the magazine sector, and more titles are focusing on advertising revenue at the expense of the reader. Gordon Patterson, managing director of leading media agency Starcom, explains the problem.
The SABC estimates that the two new regional television channels will cost R221-million apiece to operate in the first year. Mike Aldridge looks at the viability of a public television model that won’t take ads and won’t broadcast in English.
The ANC’s election strategy pulled the rug from under the media, argues Professor Tawana Kupe. Why was their communications plan, which centred around President Mbeki, so successful?
<i>Sowetan</i> editor Aggrey Klaaste, who died last week, arrived in Sophiatown as a teenager from Kimberley. But his love for, and link with, his Johannesburg stamping-ground were never lost. In keeping with the ethos of the unique urban melting-pot nicknamed "Kofifi", Klaaste was well known for his love of wine and song, dancing to jazz tunes and imbibing whatever was available — until he climbed on to the wagon.
The world forms its vision of South Africa through the reports of over 200 foreign correspondents working in the region. Geoff Hill asks some of them how they try to make global audiences care.
It may thud in at a colossal 957 pages, but Bill Clinton’s autobiography still feels incomplete. One closes this fattest of tomes with a sneaking suspicion that the saga is far from over. Its final words should read: To be continued. Nothing more embodies the divisions in the United States than its leading dynasties, the Bushes and the Clintons.
Oom Krisjan knows how unpalatable an unpalatable task can be. Such as when a recalcitrant mare needs to be inseminated. But never do the manne of the Marico shirk their duties. So it was with sympathy that the Oom saw the task a Parliamentary ad hoc committee had been given: to judge right and wrong in the battle between the Protector and the Prosecutor
If a nation’s character can be deduced from its music then fado, Portugal’s lilting Latinate blues, says much about the natural disposition of the people. Literally translated as ”fate”, fado captures perfectly the melancholic world view shared by many of the country’s 10,3-million citizens.