At this rate there will be very few, if any, of the current SAA board left after
CEO Siza Mzimela quit, closely followed yesterday by the resignations of
commercial general manager Theunis Potgieter, and legal and risk head Sandra Coetzee.
On the technology front, America's National Science Foundation has created a new program to
find new paths forward for sustainable energy.
Many people reckon she deserves an 'F' - despite Angie Motshekga awarding herself a very good pass mark after the Limpopo textbook debacle. Now she has to
give a report on the issue. What's the bet she comes out smelling of roses.
Think of El Nino and you usually think of wild weather. Well, according to Santam,
El Nino offers an opportunity for SA farmers.
Still on the agriculture front, in a way, Goodyear, the tyre manufacturer, has announced plans to
replace petroleum oil in tyres with soya oil.
Still on the automotive front proper, our intrepid motoring editor Henrie Geyser rates the new Chevrolet Cruze hatches as
nifty - which is just the way we rate Henrie ourselves.
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Fresh from the Paris Motor Show last week, comes the news that TomTom will provide in-car navigation platforms to Mazda and the sports car brand of the Fiat Group. 
Toyota South Africa Motors has reaffirmed its local and global ambitions as it officially opened its new parts distribution warehouse in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. 
September 2012 proved to be yet another good month for Nissan in South Africa as the company's positive sales trend continued - reflecting a 1.8% increase on August 2012, despite the fact that the overall domestic market decreased by 2.7% month-on-month. 
Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa (FMCSA) has successfully turned on second-shift production at its Silverton assembly plant in Pretoria, virtually doubling production and improving supply to both domestic and export markets. 
