When Ford’s new Focus arrived on these shores several years ago, many felt that it was the first great product from that company since the mingling of genes with Mazda started a few decades ago.
Wage confirmation talks, which constitute the three-year agreement between the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and the Automobile Manufacturers Employers Organisation, hit a snag this week after the parties failed to reach an agreement on wage increases.
A small boy’s excitement at finding a card displaying a dinosaur in a box of cereal had a remarkable ending on Thursday when the boy, now a 31-year-old palaeontologist, presented a new species to the South African media.
The South African Chamber of Business’s (Sacob) Business Confidence Index rebounded by 3,4 index points in June to 105,8 from 102,4 in May, Sacob said on Thursday.
The United Nations has earmarked nearly 60% of its just-approved 2003/2004 peacekeeping budget for Africa. Of the ,17-billion the world body plans to spend on peacekeeping in the new financial year beginning July 1, more than ,3-billion has been set aside for five peacekeeping operations in Africa.
African bluesman Ali Farka Toure is about to trade his guitar in for a hoe, the preferred tool of farmers in his desert hometown of Niafunke, and has vowed never again to tour outside of Mali.
At last free from the terror created by Saddam Hussein’s regime, Baghdad’s women say they have suffered long enough and deserve a better future.
South Africa’s Western Cape wheat growing area, the Swartland, experienced 10% of its normal rainfall in June and if rainfall in July similarly is low the probability of wheat crop failure in the area is very high, grain broker Commodity Trading House said on Wednesday.
The South African rand was softer against major currencies in late morning trade on Thursday after a move sparked by offshore demand for dollars. However, exporter sales were seen at the weaker levels and currency traders expected a range bound day from the local unit.
The pharmacy clerk pulls a box of skin lightening cream from a glass cabinet, places it on the counter, and says it’s obvious why he sells so much of it.