adminToyota to reclaim car sales crown
Toyota Motor Corp is poised to take back the title of world’s biggest carmaker for 2012, as Volkswagen AG fights General Motors for second place heading into the final weeks. The battle among the world’s‘Labour market reforms not the answer’
Johannesburg. — Expecting labour market reforms to be a realistic path to making South Africa’s manufacturing sector more competitive is “pie in the sky” thinking, Trade and Industry Minister RobGovt misses ethanol deadline
Tendai Mugabe Senior ReporterGovernment has failed to introduce mandatory blending of petrol within two months in line with a Cabinet resolution banning unleaded petrol in Zimbabwe. In September, Government resolved that
OK to offer EcoCash services
Business ReporterZIMBABWE’S largest supermarket chain, OK Zimbabwe Limited, has become the first major retailer to be connected to EcoCash, Econet Wireless’ mobile money service. OK has assumed an EcoCash “Super
DPRK top leader, people pay tribute to late Kim Jong Il
PYONGYANG — The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) held various events yesterday to commemorate late leader Kim Jong Il on the first anniversary of his death. Top leader Kim Jong Un andPolice stations blasted in Benghazi — security
BENGHAZI — Two explosions rocked police stations in the Libyan city of Benghazi early yesterday and police foiled a third attack, a security official told AFP, adding that there were no casualties.China launches African agriculture, forestry research centre
HANGZHOU — China’s first research institution on African agriculture and forestry was launched in east China’s Zhejiang Province on Sunday. The Centre for China-Africa Agriculture and Forestry Research, wasANC announces top leadership nominations
BLOEMFONTEIN — The ANC announced yesterday that Jacob Zuma and Kgalema Motlanthe are in the running for the position of president of the ANC. Electoral agency representative Thabile ThomasIran’s Ahmadinejad raps US for profiteering policies
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rapped the US for its profiteering policies on gun control, and called on the country to fundamentally review its policies which serve the material interests of a certain
Obama to act on gun culture
NEWTOWN — President Barack Obama vowed on Sunday to use all his power to stop gun massacres like the slaughter of 20 little children at a Connecticut school, saying “these tragedies must end.”