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/ 7 December 2006
Fifa president Sepp Blatter said he was confident that South Africa would be ready to stage the World Cup in 2010 despite concerns over delays in the building of new stadiums. ”We need to bring a little bit of fire [to the organisers],” Blatter told a news conference following a two-day meeting of Fifa’s executive committee.
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/ 7 December 2006
It may be one problem airline security officials never envisioned — a passenger lighting matches in flight to mask odours from her flatulence. The woman’s actions resulted in an emergency landing on Monday in Nashville of an American Airlines flight bound for Dallas from Washington, DC, said Lynne Lowrance, a spokesperson for Nashville’s airport.
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/ 7 December 2006
A candidate attorney, who allegedly illegally represented clients in the regional court, made his third appearance in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday on three charges of fraud. Candidate attorneys, previously known as articled clerks, may not represent clients in the regional court without authority from the Law Society.
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/ 7 December 2006
South African real retail sales growth in September rose considerably to 13,6% year-on-year (y/y) from August’s 8,8%, with consumers possibly buying strongly in anticipation of tighter conditions which beckoned. Total retail trade sales amounted to R35,8-billion, while real growth for the year to date — recorded by Stats SA — came in at 9,9%.
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/ 7 December 2006
A glimpse was given last week of South Africa’s digital broadcast future — and of the wrangles about who might control it. The somewhat fuzzy picture came in via a 350-page report by a task force set up by the government and called the digital broadcasting migration working group (WG).
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/ 7 December 2006
Volkswagen’s Citi Golf is on track for its best year yet, with more than 30Â 000 units being sold in this, its 32nd year of production. Toyota’s Tazz has reached the end of the road, and Nissan’s 1400 pickup is due to be phased out within a year. However, the last of the trio of budget vehicles with roots in the Seventies and Eighties, Volkswagen’s Citi Golf, is still around.
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/ 7 December 2006
It’s not a Bentley, it’s not a Maybach and it’s probably not going to be mistaken for a Rolls-Royce. If you think it’s meant to compete with exotics such as Ferrari or Lamborghini, then you’ve been smoking your socks. What the Chrysler 300C Hemi is, though, is a big luxury car that exudes presence, goes like stonk in a straight line, scrambles around corners pretty briskly for a Yank tank, and surprises everybody who asks its price.
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/ 7 December 2006
Hopes that the world will finally be able to immunise people against malaria received a shot in the arm this week as leading health experts unveiled the blueprint for a preventive vaccine in the Thai capital, Bangkok. Yet, the architects of this new global strategy — titled the <i>Malaria Vaccine Technology Roadmap</i> and launched on Wednesday at the end of a three-day conference — warn against too much optimism.
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/ 7 December 2006
United States President George Bush was warned on Wednesday that his policy in Iraq was ”not working” and that to have a chance of avoiding a regional disaster he would have to repudiate much of the foreign policy he has pursued over the past six years. In stark language, the long awaited bipartisan Iraq Study Group called for US combat troops to be withdrawn by early 2008.
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/ 7 December 2006
Scientists have discovered evidence of water gushing down gullies on Mars, dramatically boosting the chances that regions of the planet might still be capable of harbouring life. Pictures taken from Nasa’s Mars Global Surveyor, which has been orbiting the planet for 10 years, reveal distinctive streaks of what is believed to be water, bursting out of crater walls and flowing around boulders.