Alberto, Beryl, Chris and Debby. Somewhere over the Atlantic, a combination of warm sea surface temperatures and wind shear is brewing up a string of tropical storms that threaten to unleash a fresh season of devastation on coastal America. A new forecast from the respected team of hurricane experts at Colorado State University predicted 17 named storms in 2006, including nine hurricanes.
When industry giant General Motors (GM) announced that it had bought the Korean minnow Daewoo a couple of years ago, and would in future brand the Asian products as Chevrolets, I questioned whether South African motorists would buy either the story or the cars, writes Gavin Foster.
Thami Masemola, former managing editor of <i>Bl!nk</i>, has been appointed its new editor following the resignation of Siphiwe Mpye. Currently the only men’s lifestyle magazine aimed at black men.
Media24 has launched into Angola with a monthly Portuguese publication titled <i>TV24</i>. It is a joint venture with MultiChoice and was officially launched in April. “The aim of the publication is to offer Angolans television listings in a language they understand and can read,” says editor Lino Fonseca.
Magazine publishers Ramsay, Son & Parker have bought 50 percent of <i>Leisure Wheels</i>. The publication joins RS&P’s two other motoring titles CAR, and Wiel (initially announced as <i>La’t Wiel</i>), due to be launched in September.
So we are all supposed to withdraw quietly now and heave huge sighs of relief. The national executive committee of the African National Congress has assured us: there is no leadership tussle; succession is a foreign concept, only applicable to dynasties and inimical to the ANC. ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe apparently does not believe President Thabo Mbeki has usurped reduced him to an administrative clerk.
Three men have been identified as suspects for the murders of politician Robert Smit and his family in Springs 29 years ago, Beeld reported on Thursday. According to unnamed sources in the intelligence community, two of the suspects were part of the apartheid-era security police and the third a member of ”a task team”.
Readers may have learnt by now that the Steve Tshwete municipality in Middelburg, is going to spend R300Â 000 on an inauguration party for its new mayor. What they may not have heard is the compelling defence provided for this expenditure. According to News24, chief whip Mike Masinga said that the ANC councillors ”were unanimous in their decision to spend the money”.
A new plan to address corruption in Kenya has been adopted in the East African country — this as the government continues to be criticised for overseeing widespread graft. The National Anti-Corruption Plan was drawn up by the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission, a government body mandated to investigate graft.
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