South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday his government may cut tariffs on some imported equipment and goods in a bid to boost the manufacturing sector. Mbeki said a healthier manufacturing sector was critical to the government’s efforts to narrow the country’s trade deficit.
The facelifted Hyundai Tiburon (Spanish for "shark") perfectly illustrates just how far this young Korean manufacturer has come in a short space of time. Given that it’s a sports coupé, Hyundai took the opportunity to use Wesbank Raceway to take motoring scribes through an advanced driving course using the new Tiburons.
Four engines, three specification levels, two pronunciations and — no doubt — number-one seller in the C-class hatch sector. That’s the new Toyota Auris for you. At the launch preview in the United Kingdom a couple of months ago, we asked the Toyota UK representative handling the presentation how the name was pronounced, and he told us that it was "Owris".
My first car, a Ford Sapphire, was an absolute disaster. I owned it for six months before trading it in for a Toyota Corolla 1,3-litre. But my third car, a Corolla 160i, was, in my book, my first real car. I loved it. Its acceleration was smooth, it handled twisty bits with confidence and it never let me down, writes Sukasha Singh.
Remember the Fiat Uno? The car everybody made jokes about — and then bought? Between 1990 and 2005, the little cars — then assembled by Nissan South Africa — became favourites with people who wanted a simple, reliable car that didn’t cost an arm and a leg to buy or to run.
The tiny kingdom of Lesotho is the unlikely venue for ambitious plans to create the number one destination for skiers in Africa. "This is going to be the biggest ski resort in Africa," says Ollie Esplin, manager of the Afri-Ski resort, as he tries to explain how to minimise the risks of meltdown in Lesotho’s picturesque Mahlasela Valley.
Former president FW de Klerk on Sunday defended his decision to authorise a raid in Mthatha in 1993 in which five teenagers were killed. ”Although the operation was tragically botched, Mr De Klerk himself acted in his capacity as head of government with due deliberation and care and in complete compliance with national and international law,” said a statement from his foundation.
Italy’s gay activists on Sunday organised a sit-in ”with collective kissing” at the Colosseum to protest against the arrest of two men, for what police described as an ”oral relationship”. They risk being tried for public indecency, punishable by up to two years in jail.
The Gauteng provincial housing department has pledged R85-million towards the development of four hostels in the province. Provincial housing minister Nomvula Mokonyane held talks with African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party supporters who lived in hostels where a number of protests took place earlier this month.
In the bowels of Iran’s uranium conversion facility in Isfahan strands of black and red wire stretch from the concrete wall to giant white tanks full of a volatile uranium compound. It is by these slender cords that the international community hopes to hold Iran’s atomic ambitions in check.