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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Nedbank has relaunched its SAA Voyager credit card with enhanced features that include the best Voyager Miles earn rate that enables clients to accumulate Voyager Miles for greater travel in response to feedback from its clients. 
In March this year, the Owl Rescue Centre installed a hacking aviary on the roof of the Sandton Sun Hotel in Johannesburg with the purpose of reintroducing rehabilitated owls that originated from the Sandton area back into their natural habitat. Since the project's inception, a total of 16 owls have been successfully released into their indigenous environment. 
The Rezidor Hotel Group has announced the appointment of its current vice-president and COO, Wolfgang M Neumann, as president and CEO with effect from 1 January, 2013. Neumann takes over from Kurt Ritter, who is retiring. 
Robbie Stammers has moved on to start some exciting new ventures of his own after five years as the editor of Leadership magazine. He has formed a DVD partnership and plans an outdoor travel magazine for Cape Union Mart. 
October is the second month in a row that South African consumers suffered a substantial blow to their wallets with another increase in the fuel price. The up and downstream impact on the pricing of consumer goods will be significant and it is expected that the domestic travel industry will not exit the current swathe of fuel price increases unscathed. 
Kenya Airways flights to the Kenya's fast-growing town, Eldoret, are scheduled to begin on 17 October, 2012, with 10 flights a week into the Rift Valley Province town. 
Government has granted South African Airways a R5bn guarantee for a period of two years starting from 1 September 2012. 
Low cost airline Mango's entire fleet, comprising six new-generation Boeing 737-800 aircraft, is now online. The G-Connect In-Flight Wi-Fi service has exceeded all expectations with over 250 GB of data usage supported by an above global average take-up rate of 8% during the installation period. 
