With the impending arrival of a new range of Hilux bakkies in the second quarter of this year, we decided to arrange a sojourn with the KZ-TE, one of the Legend35 turbo diesels. Armed with luggage and golf clubs, our merry trio put it to the test.
Triumph’s long-awaited all-new Sprint ST sports tourer has arrived, loaded with testosterone while retaining the user-friendliness that made its predecessor a hit. Gavin Foster rode it at the world launch in Cape Town.
So intense is the emotion surrounding land claims against the Kruger National Park that after our recent front-page story on the issue, one community leader indicated he would be calling for the head of South African National Parks (SANParks) spokesperson Wanda Mkutshulwa. Mkutshulwa’s crime had been to warn that the validation of the 37 claims could threaten Kruger’s survival.
"Recognising that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come." Peace and democracy take root in caring for the planet, says Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Officially, the United Nations conference is being called Beijing and Beyond. But a worldwide NGO review entitled <i>Beijing Betrayed</i> concludes that "governments have failed to turn the platform into action". The report says that despite well-meaning statements, "many women in all regions are actually worse off than they were 10 years ago".
Transnet subsidiary Petronet is to spend at least R3-billion on a new pipeline to move petrol, diesel and jet fuel from Durban to Gauteng, in a move that is expected to shake up a fuel market still shaped by apartheid-era logistical constraints. Gas and liquid fuels transport capacity is among the most contested issues in the local industry.
A labour lover of note, the Oom was, however, duty-bound to point out this example of union double-speak to his followers. On Tuesday South African Transport and Allied Workers Union members caused mayhem on the streets of Jozi when they started stoning truckers who hadn’t heeded their call to down gear. The police got the moer in and beat them up, apartheid-style.
Judging a journalism competition means you get to peruse a pile of poor-quality products, but also that you are sometimes rewarded with exhilarating examples of quality work. In the intricate field of information and communication technology (ICT) coverage, your chances of encountering the good stuff are even more challenged.
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Could husband-hunting be a deadly business for South Africa’s young women? Jeremy Magruder, a young American economist at the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Social Science Research, thinks so. Frisky, risky chancers may be transmitting the incurable virus among themselves but Magruder suspects that dating, with a view to marriage, is pushing the infection.