You might as well say hello to Toyota’s new Corolla Verso, because you’re likely to be seeing a lot of it in future. Although Toyota has built a number of similar vehicles for other markets this is the first of its ilk to be offered here, and the company clearly has its sights set squarely on the Renault Scenic market.
Beneath the picture of a Thai farmer holding a Starbucks-branded mug, the report lays out its "holistic approach". This means paying farmers fair prices and offering favourable terms, purchasing certified and conservation coffees and providing farmers access to affordable credit. The global coffee chain has found a way to be socially responsible while still giving its customers their fix.
The contrast between unfettered praise and damning criticism generated by the release of the Human Development Report on South Africa by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) last Wednesday has exposed the polar economic ideologies in this country.
In the past decade the best-equipped hospital in Africa, the new Inkosi Albert Luthuli central hospital, has been built in Durban, along with almost a third of the KwaZulu-Natal’s 366 clinics. In addition, two new district hospitals are being built in the eThekwini area. Yet the province is critically short of doctors and nurses to tackle the highest rate of HIV/Aids infections in South Africa.
Israeli forces fired tank shells, helicopter missiles and machine-guns on Wednesday on a large crowd of Palestinians demonstrating against an Israeli invasion of a neighbouring refugee camp, killing at least 10 people, most of them children. At least 50 were wounded in the attack, also mostly children.
Is South African youth radio short-changing local music? Should the 25% local content quota be increased, or would the commercial imperatives of the stations just make the action untenable? Andy Davis tackles the issues.
For the best part of 20 years Alan Greenspan has symbolised the stupidity of ageism. He became chairperson of the United States Federal Reserve at 61; his golden years in charge of the US economy were when he was pushing 70 and he’s still there at 78. So it is with some trepidation that I ask: Has Big Al finally lost the plot, Larry Elliot ponders aloud.
I recently discovered that my ex-boyfriend is gay. Which is not all that an unusual experience for a woman in her 30s in 2004. But I found it to be quite a shock. The thing is, being a lesbian myself, I had always imagined that I would be the one telling him something he didn’t know.
Each time you see pictures of United States soldiers humiliating Iraqi prisoners, what do you feel? Revulsion, probably. Compassion. Sadness. Anger, perhaps. But there’s something else puzzling in there, too: a more acute visceral reaction to the women’s involvement than the men’s.
The commander of Guantánamo Bay, sacked amid charges from the Pentagon that he was too soft on detainees, said he faced constant tension from military interrogators trying to extract information from inmates. Brigadier General Rick Baccus was removed from his post in October 2002, apparently after frustrating military intelligence officers by granting detainees such privileges as distributing copies of the Koran.