Pretoria News

Retail sales declined in September, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday. A decrease of 5,1% was reflected for September 2009 when compared with September 2008, the Pretoria-based agency said. In August, retail sales declined by a revised 6,5% year-on-year, Statistics...

A Play on Words Scene 5 GOVERNMENTAL I often sit staring at a word and thinking about its meaning and what other things I could do with the letters that have been used. How many other connecting words are hidden...

I often sit staring at a word and thinking about its meaning and what other things I could do with the letters that have been used. How many other connecting words are hidden in the main or parent word. With...

A play on words – scene 3 So many of the words that we use with free abandon these days often have many a hidden meaning in their letters. Take the letters that are used to make up any word...

Sitting in a daze for the past week and being unable to concentrate or focus on anything I have left my mind to wander down the many different roads and byways of thought patterns that make up who I am....

An Al Qaeda splinter group that vowed revenge for the killing of one of its members in Somalia recently is reported to be behind the threats that closed down the US embassy and other US government facilities in South Africa....

I remember as a small child my parents would grasp my hand tightly whenever there was a road to be crossed or busy traffic around us. We would stop one step away from the road and together would recite:- Look...

One of the plagues that seems to keep rearing its ugly head is malaria. I call it a plague due to the fact that although we seem to be able to eradicate it from some areas it does not take...

Looking back to what seems centuries ago, when I was at school, and there were no such things as calculators, and multiplication and division were hard work and brain power. I so enjoyed the challenge of working things out mentally...