Zimbabwean police have arrested more than 1Â 300 shop owners and business executives for defying the government’s orders to reduce prices. President Robert Mugabe’s government, concerned by rocketing prices that could trigger social unrest, had ordered shops and businesses to reduce their prices to levels used on June 18, or face arrest.
A ”huge contingent” of Johannesburg metro police will direct traffic in the central city on Monday for a march by metal and engineering workers. ”We are preparing for 22 000 demonstrators,” said chief superintendent Wayne Minnaar on Monday morning.
Nantucket is classic New England: sailing ships, cobblestone streets, grey shingle cottages with white trim, clam-chowder competitions — and class warfare. The latest outbreak is over a proposal by the island’s super-rich residents to try to hold back the Atlantic, which threatens to send their coastline mansions toppling.
Women in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, world-famous for its ferocious bull-running festival, are demanding their own version complete with cows instead of bulls. A student website set the ball rolling with its campaign ”Cows want to run” which asks for a separate encierro where only women are allowed to take part.
A debate is intensifying inside the White House over whether President George Bush should try to prevent more Republican defections by announcing intentions for a gradual withdrawal of troops from high-casualty Iraqi areas, the New York Times said on Monday.
As 4X4 wagons go, I’ve had two favourites for the past year or so. The Toyota Fortuner and GM’s Hummer H3 appeal to me because they offer acceptable comfort levels, genuine off-road capabilities and are relatively well-priced. Just about everything else is either too fancy and expensive to take into the bush, or inadequate for really serious use off-road, writes Gavin Foster.
You trundle along through your daily activities — drive to work, drive home, drive to gym, drive home — and you never really consider how much time you spend behind the steering wheel of your car. That is until you find a vehicle that’s not completely manic in nature, but stirs the senses enough to make you realise that it’s not about getting from Point A to Point B anymore.
As I write this, Father’s Day is drawing to a close and I can’t help but think how different it all could have been if I’d had access to Audi’s new S3 back in November 1974. Back then, I naively believed that taking up motorcycle racing would render me irresistible to sexually unfulfilled young women, writes Gavin Foster.
On a stretch of white sand beach on an island off Germany, a massive complex intended as a Nazi holiday camp that has been steadily falling into disrepair is set for a new lease of life. More than 70 years since construction began on the vast Prora complex on the picturesque island of Ruegen, plans are being drawn up to turn one of the imposing dormitory blocks into a 500-bed youth hostel, with every room to have a view of the Baltic Sea.
The third round of the Currie Cup played over the weekend has left many teams with more questions than answers. Western Province and the Valke will reflect on their results and wonder what they have to do to resurrect their Currie Cup campaigns.