December 22, 2024
The change in thrust at Rufaro Marketing has been necessitated by a perennial working capital crisis at the company, spawned by operations that have become incongruent with the prevailing economic conditions.To rescue the business, the company's board of directors along with its 100 percent shareholder, the City of…
Fast forward to the end of the first decade of the 21st century, and the name Hyundai doesn't just register, it has earned for itself a desirability factor which has blossomed as models penned by Head of Design Peter Schreyer (ex Audi) have found their way onto…
What sent me on this fantasy journey was a request for a picture of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Grand Tourer - you know; the one with those stand-out gullwing doors that hark back to another wonder car, the Mercedes-Benz 300SL of 1954.If you asked me which was the…
One of the best examples of on-going selective reporting that I can muster is one that is very close to home for me and that is the apparently never-ending desire by the British tabloid press to find something unpleasant to say about Michael Schumacher.As I've written elsewhere, Schumacher's…
According to impeccable sources, the Ministry of Finance, the Insurance and Pension Commission (IPEC) and insurance players - Zimbabwe Association of Pension Funds, Life Offices Association and Zimbabwe Association of Funeral Assurers appended their signatures on October 10, 2011 in a bid to roll out a housing bond…
The SLS Roadster was also seen for the first time outside its home country and the much more convincing SLK drew many admirers as did the E and C-Class Coupes. Stuttgart is most definitely spicing-up its offerings and with the quality issues of recent times now apparently consigned…
FLA recently bought 67 hectares of land in Manresa, a location on the outskirts of Harare near Mabvuku, with the intention of setting up an up-market memorial park in a country ravaged with one of the highest mortality rates due a high HIV and Aids prevalence.FLA chairperson, Solomon…
According the Harare City Council's Education, Housing and Community Services and Licensing Committee minutes dated Septe-mber 27, 2011, CABS entered into an agreement with the local authority last year which would result in the construction of several low cost housing units in Harare's densely populated residential suburbs. The…
It struck me that 6-cylinder power would really make this SUV a rather dandy proposition and now I know I was right having been picked up at OR Tambo Airport in a LTZ 3.0 V6 version en-route to the recent Johannesburg International Motor Show. The 190kW motor made…
It's a mighty emotional issue probably because accidents that do occur at high speed leave behind horrifically mangled wreckage which unfortunately makes the aftermath newsworthy for little more than ghoulish reasons.South Africa, sad to say, has one of the worst accident rates in the world (10 000 deaths annually)…