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As we said before, please do not buy a new car until the end of November — inventories are so low, you’re not likely find the color and features you want and you will most likely over pay. If you must buy a car now, both Hyundai and Kia are the first car manufacturers to offer big incentives after the ”clunkers’ program ended. While KIA offers the better deals, you’ll still likely save more if you can’t wait until the end of November for supply to catch back up to levels where deals abound.

Hailed as a jump-start for the U.S. economy, the federal government's "cash for clunkers" gave the biggest boost to foreign automakers. Overall, auto sales in August were the highest in more than a year, according to industry figures released Tuesday. Carmakers sold more than 1.2 million cars and trucks, up 1% from the same month last year and the first year-over-year sales gain since August 2007. Much of that was a result of the clunkers program, which ran July 24 to Aug. 24 and provided hefty government rebates to consumers who traded in gas guzzlers for more fuel-efficient new vehicles....

SKorea, US team up to build and export Aegis warships by Staff Writers Seoul (AFP) July 22, 2009 US defence group Lockheed Martin and South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries will team up to build and export mid-size warships equipped with advanced Aegis weapons systems, an official said Wednesday. They signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in May 2006 to jointly produce Aegis-equipped guided missile ships, Hyundai Heavy spokesman Cho Woo-Tae told AFP. Cho said it is thought to be very rare for Lockheed to partner with a foreign company to produce Aegis-equipped vessels for possible sale to a third country....

It's the worst year in history for the industry: Two Detroit companies went bankrupt, and even the Japanese are losing money. But nothing stops those Koreans. Hyundai and Kia are expanding their lineups, a new Kia plant is to open in Georgia, and they are setting most ambitious goals. Their cars may not be the best, but they are improving--many get on the "recommended" list in Consumers Reports--and they are getting major help from the home country's weak currency. The two are connected under the name Hyundai Kia Automotive Group. Hyundai is larger and owns a 39% controlling stake in...

Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group is recording the fastest growth among foreign carmakers in the U.S. market, filling the vacuum left by the troubled ``Big Three'' automakers. In the January-to-April period, General Motors (GM), Ford and Chrysler sold 1.77 million vehicles in total in the U.S. for a combined 44.7-percent share, down 3.6 percent year-on-year in the wake of the bankruptcy protection for GM and Chrysler, according to industry experts. All foreign makers benefited from the decline, but none of them outperformed the Korean maker in the first four months of the year. Hyundai's market share rose 1.3 percentage points to 4.2...

A study of car safety released on Wednesday shows that four of the top-scoring automobiles in tests of five new models were small cars or so-called super-minis — including the Honda Jazz, Hyundai i20, Kia Soul and Peugeot 3008. . . Seats installed in the Kia Soul, for example, “achieved a good result in the program’s whiplash testing, again revealing that it is not only larger or expensive cars that achieve impressive results in safety.” . . . It said the Honda Jazz and Hyundai i20 racked up “impressive pedestrian scores”

What you are looking at is the physical representation of Hyundai's will to succeed in the U.S., also known as the 2009 Hyundai Genesis. The Korean automaker's first attempt at a rear-wheel-drive luxury sedan will debut in Detroit next week and arrive on our shores later this year (we think) with a price tag that starts below $30,000. As is Hyundai's way, it will feature power, performance and amenities that belie its little price tag. First, the design. The Genesis sedan has clean lines and uncluttered surfaces that look detailed and, frankly, expensive. Yes, it's derivative. There's a bit of...

While the Minutemen protest, the Teamster try to recruit the Mexican Drivers.

OSTRAVA, Czech Republic, April 25 Asia Pulse - Construction on Hyundai Motor's (KSE:005380) Czech plant started Wednesday, heralding the carmaker's efforts to expand its presense in Eastern Europe. The 1.1 billion euro (US$1.5 billion) project aims to give Hyundai the ability to churn out 300,000 cars every year. During the first part of construction, to be completed by March 2009, the plant will make 200,000 units. This will be increased by 100,000 by 2011. Ostrava, located in the eastern part of the Czech Republic, is famous for its steel production and coal mining. It is close to both Poland and...

Alabama's auto industry gathered additional momentum Monday with the news that Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama LLC, which opened its $1.1 billion production facility in Montgomery less than two years ago, would build a second engine plant on the site. The South Korean carmaker will invest $270 million in the new project, which will create 522 new jobs. The company will build a 350,000-square-foot facility to manufacture 2.4-liter, four-cylinder Theta engines for use on site by Hyundai and at the new Kia Motors Corp. plant under construction in nearby Georgia. Kia is a sister company to Hyundai. The new project also...

CALIFORNIA CITY - A state appellate court has decided in favor of several California City property owners fighting the city's use of eminent domain to acquire their land in 2003 for an automotive test track for Hyundai Kia Motors. The Fifth Appellate District decision overturns that of a Kern County Superior Court, which in 2005 found in favor of the city in its acquisition of land for the test track, which occupies seven square miles at the southern edge of the city along Highway 58. Of the acreage needed by Hyundai Kia, approximately 80% was owned by a railroad firm...

Hyundai Sues Union for New Year's Violence Hyundai Motor on Thursday sued 22 leaders of its labor union, including union head Park Yoo-ki, for their violent disruption of a New Year's opening ceremony at its Ulsan factory. The company also plans to sue the union for disrupting operations, as unionists have rejected two-hour overtime work since December 28. Additionally, the automaker will seek compensation from the union for property damages including smashed glass doors. Hyundai Motor said that 4,427 cars were not produced over the last five days, causing a loss of W72.4 billion (US$1=W931.) The company said that according...

For all the nonsense about the love affair between Americans and their cars, people seem to spend a whole lot of time and effort to avoid climbing into a car. Super Stop & Shop's Peapod provides home delivery of groceries. That eliminates one's weekly trip to the grocery store. Get the grocery list online, pick the items, and the food appears in the insulated box outside your house. People can go to Match, Jdate, EHarmony and Match.com to start dating without even heading to a bar. What happened to joining the ski club? What happened to taking night classes? Tennis,...

December 5, 2006 A Loop 101 photo enforcement case that captured national attention and called into question the accuracy of Scottsdale’s freeway speed cameras won’t ever get its day in court. Scottsdale and the man accused of traveling a record 147 mph in a 2006 Hyundai Sonata family sedan reached a plea agreement less than a week before the case was to go to trial today. Lawrence Pargo, 27, of Goodyear, agreed to plead guilty to one count of criminal endangerment, one count of reckless driving and one count of excessive speeding at 102 mph in Scottsdale City Court, according...

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il has reportedly told Chinese interlocutors that he is "sorry" about testing a nuclear weapon and that he is willing to resume his country's participation in the so-called Six-Party Talks. It is predictable that diplomats in this country and elsewhere will seek to parlay this "breakthrough" into new negotiations. If past practice is any guide, however, these talks will translate into additional strategic, financial and political concessions for the North, even as it continues to build its nuclear weapon stockpile and perfect its long-range ballistic missile programs - the very actions such concessions are meant to...

CALIFORNIA CITY - The battle over fencing additions to the Desert Tortoise Nature Area on the outskirts of California City appears to be over, settled by a meeting of all parties involved. The land in question was turned over to the state Department of Fish and Game for use as protected desert tortoise habitat by Hyundai Motors as mitigation measures for building a test track at the southern end of the city. Because the track would infringe on desert tortoise habitat, a similar amount of land had to be set aside elsewhere. The property is near the existing Desert Tortoise...

According to a JD Power and Associates' 2006 Initial Quality Study, Toyota and its upscale Lexus division took 11 of 19 vehicle-category top spots. Toyota's Camry and Corolla sedans, its high-priced Lexus LS430 model, and four of its SUVs also took top spots. However, the best their Prius could muster in the compact car division was fourth. It was beat out by two Japanese cars (no surpise) - the Corolla (1st) and the Honda Civic (3rd). Surprise second-place finisher was the Hyundai Elantra. Maybe Elantra wasn't surprised, but I was. The problem with the Prius seems to not be a...

J.D. Power and Associates Ranked the different classes of cars by quality. There were 19 classes of cars. Asian car makers too 14 of the top spots in the 19 classes. Japan was on top in 12 classes. 11 of those were taken by Toyota alone! The last Japanese spot was taken by Mazda. South Korean car makers Kia and Hyundai each took a top spot. Subcompact: Kia Rio Compact: Toyota Corolla Compact Sporty: Mazda MX-5 Miata Entry Premium: Lexus IS 250/350 Mid-size Premium: Lexus ES 330 Large Premium: Lexus LS430 Premium Sporty: Lexus SC 430 Mid-size sporty: Toyota Solara...

Labor leaders in Korea are not disappointed to see Hyundai CEO, Chung Mong Koo, take a fall. What union leaders ( I hate unions ) hope for is that this will give Hyundai Motors a chance to make another leap forward because they will be out from under the 'emperor-like' rule of Chung. Hyundai is the world's number 7 auto-maker and Chung now owns 5.2% of it from jail. Though he owned such a small portion he had near absolute control and was even said to be a micro manager to the point of deciding what color the parts under...

Some records are meant to be broken, but Scottsdale police aren’t happy with one that has been shattered by someone they described as “a very dangerous driver.” The new speed record clocked last month by photo enforcement cameras along Loop 101 in Scottsdale — at 147 mph — is 16 mph more than the one set by an unknown motorcyclist on Feb. 14. Lawrence Pargo, 26, of Goodyear was arrested by Scottsdale police at his home May 26 on suspicion of four counts of excessive speeding, reckless driving and endangerment, Scottsdale police Lt. Frank O’Halloran said. Pargo was clocked and...

Millions of American investors, as well as their pension funds, mutual funds and other institutions, have unsuspectingly invested their hard-earned wealth in foreign companies that aid and abet the Islamofascist theocracy in Iran. If you are reading this article, you’re probably one of those unsuspecting investors. You may not directly own shares of corporations that do business in and with the Islamic Republic of Iran, but chances are your 401K, mutual fund portfolio or public pension system is invested in such companies. Congratulations. A portion of your money is going toward arming and training Hezbollah terrorists, sheltering members of Al...

SEOUL, April 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's prosecution on Thursday requested an arrest warrant for embattled Chairman Chung Mong-koo of the Hyundai Motor Group, who is accused of creating a huge slush fund to bribe politicians and government officials for business favors. Chung's only son and heir Eui-sun, the president of Kia Motors Corp., will be indicted without physical detention on the same charges, prosecutors said. Kia is a key affiliate of the country's second-largest conglomerate. "We sought a warrant in the morning to detain Chairman Chung on charges of embezzling 100 billion won from the company coffers to...

Russian factory will make Hyundai vehicles Feb 10, 2006, 10:05 GMT printer friendly email this article ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (UPI) -- The Russian Truck and Car Plant has signed an agreement with South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor Co. to produce commercial Hyundai vehicles in Russia. Investment in the project will total $120 million, a spokesman at Hyundai`s regional office has told the Russian news agency Interfax. The plant, located in the city of Rostov-on-Don, will mainly assemble buses -- the 25-seat County and the 33-seat Aero Town -- as well as Hyundai tow trucks. The Russians are scheduled to roll out...

Toyota Motor Corp, one of the world's most successful automakers, claims to be afraid of a lot of things: complacency, competition, and success itself. But in the United States, rival Hyundai Motor Co may well be at the top of Toyota's list. "We're worried about them," Yukitoshi Funo, chairman of Toyota Motor Sales USA, told reporters in Detroit this week. "Our main competitors here are essentially Honda Motor Co Ltd, Nissan Motor Co Ltd and Hyundai, but Hyundai is the one we are very carefully watching," he said on the sidelines of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit....

/begin my translationS. Korean Lawmaker, "N. Korea demanded to Hyundai Asan blueprints of a submarine (and an Aegis ship)" claimed, "This is the real reason (N. Korea) scrapped Hyundai's N. Korean venture." Unification Minister Chung (Dong-young) dismissed it saying, "Baseless allegation ... no more than an unfounded rumor) Seoul, Yonhap (News) 2005.10.25 (Opposition) Hannara lawmaker Lee Bang-ho claimed on Oct. 25, 2005, during the questioning session on government, "The reason why N. Korea declared the total scrapping of Hyundai Asan's N. Korean business venture is because N. Korea demanded to have blueprints for a submarine and an Aegis ship under construction by...

Kia Motors could build a sports utility vehicle (SUV) and pick-up truck plant in the U.S. following its parent company Hyundai after being offered VIP treatment there. The Hyundai Motor Group said Monday its chairman Chung Mong-ku discussed building a U.S. plant with Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour at the headquarters of the company in Yangjae, Seoul. Barbour offered Kia conditions on a par with the red-carpet treatment given to Hyundai by the depressed neighboring state of Alabama to Hyundai, the company said. Hyundai Motor Chairman Chung Mong-koo poses for a photo with visiting Mississippi governor Haley Barbour, who sits in...

... Hyundai, the South Korean vehicle manufacturer, also qualifies. The company started in the United States about two decades ago, and it had an initial rush, selling economy cars at less than economy prices. ...There are three Sonata models, all built in a new plant in Montgomery, Ala. The base GL starts at $18,495, and includes a high level of standard equipment: electronic stability control, antilock brakes, electronic brake force distribution, side air bags and side-curtain air bags, remote locking, cruise control, air conditioning, an audio system with CD and MP3 player capability, power windows and heated outside mirrors...

John Kalson left his Ford job in Detroit to work as production director for the new Hyundai plant in Montgomery, as did several of his current production line supervisors who say they were eager for a change from the Big Three culture. "Is Ford building a new plant? No. Is GM? No. Is Daimler? No," Kalson said while walking through the gleaming new Hyundai production line on display at Friday's grand opening, revealing the South Korean automaker's first U.S. plant. Experts say former Big Three employees like Kalson are indicative of Asian brands putting pressure on domestic automakers by building...

South's automotive production accelerates Hyundai plant opens today in Alabama By SAMIRA JAFARI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Hyundai's new plant opening today is the latest sign that the Mercedes-Benz decision to locate in Alabama a decade ago turned the state, like much of the South, into a new automotive frontier. Despite early skepticism that tax breaks and incentives given to the German automaker were overly lavish, it helped Alabama emerge as a major Southern contender for job-rich car assembly plants and related industries. Amid rolling fields and forests south of Alabama's capital, Hyundai is opening a 2 million-square-foot...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — As Korean automaker Hyundai invited visitors to tour its first U.S. plant, deliveries for the first U.S.-built Sonatas were arriving at dealerships in the U.S. and Canada. Hyundai held a lavish grand opening of its new plant here Friday, at which it meshed Korean and U.S. culture. Korean dancers and drummers performed, along with local high school marching bands. The event drew 4,000 guests, including the nearly 2,000 plant employees, former President George Bush, and other Alabama and U.S. government officials, as well as Hyundai executives, Korean government officials and Korean media. The Hyundai move takes a...

While attending the opening of a car plant in Alabama Friday, former president Bush jokingly recalled a protester he encountered.

Report: Automaker's customers don't want Sirius because they don't want to listen to the shock jock. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - A surprising number of Hyundai customers said they didn't want Sirius Satellite Radio installed in their vehicles because they objected to Howard Stern, according to an auto news Web site. The so-called "shock jock" will broadcast on Sirius (up $0.08 to $5.33, Research) Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. beginning in January 2006, said Inside Line, an online news source that is part of Edmunds.com. Edmunds.com is a partner in CNN.com's automotive news and information channels. Hyundai...

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - A surprising number of Hyundai customers said they didn't want Sirius Satellite Radio installed in their vehicles because they objected to Howard Stern, according to an auto news Web site. The so-called "shock jock" will broadcast on Sirius (up $0.08 to $5.33, Research) Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. beginning in January 2006, said Inside Line, an online news source that is part of Edmunds.com. Edmunds.com is a partner in CNN.com's automotive news and information channels. Hyundai recently surveyed 300 to 400 customers as it was deciding whether to choose XM (down $0.10...

HUNDREDS of pounds worth of ornamental fish have been stolen from outside the corporate headquarters of Hyundai UK, in Easton Street, High Wycombe. The theft of three ghost carp and eight comet goldfish was discovered by Hyundai data administrator Lindsey Morant on Tuesday last week. Ms Morant brought some fish food from home to entice the fish out of hiding after the cleaner reported that she hadn't seen them swimming about at all on Monday.

he 2006 Hyundai Sonata made a startling entrance at the Detroit auto show in January: It descended from the ceiling. Competitors who stepped onstage for a closer look were even more stunned by what Hyundai's sleekly redesigned flagship had to offer: six airbags, electronic stability control and a long list of standard equipment, all for less than $20,000. ADVERTISEMENT Hyundai has been crashing a lot of parties lately. The Korean automaker, whose shabby cars made it a laughingstock just a few years ago, wants to move into the front ranks of carmakers--which would give Detroit even more headaches. In 1998...

Hyundai Now a Contender With Commitment to Quality, Automaker Sets Sights on Big Three, Toyota By Greg Schneider Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 18, 2005; Page E01 DETROIT -- The car made a dramatic entrance, lowered by chains from the ceiling into a cloud of smoke and flashing lights. This was no curvaceous sports car debuting at the North American International Auto Show; it was an unadorned four-door sedan -- the 2006 Hyundai Sonata. A few years ago, such hype for a Hyundai might have seemed funny, given the South Korean company's reputation for cheap, shabby products. But this...

Arusha, Tanzania 20 January 2004 14:38 The commander of the United Nations mission in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide on Tuesday accused his superiors of denying him permission to raid caches of weapons that three months later were used in the slaughter of up to a million people, mainly Tutsis. Independent Hirondelle news agency reported that retired Canadian general Romeo Dallaire told the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda that his superiors had responded negatively to a cable he sent on January 11 1994, in which he asked permission to raid arms caches across the Central African country. Carefully laid...

10,000 'died of hunger' in Zimbabwe Catholic archbishop warns of famine as journalists are held over report that Mugabe was taking a winter break Andrew Meldrum in Pretoria Sunday January 11, 2004 The Observer (UK) Amid claims that up to 10,000 Zimbabweans have died from malnutrition in the past year, President Robert Mugabe has been accused of raiding his country's dwindling coffers to fund an extended holiday in Asia. The charges against Mugabe came as police yesterday arrested three senior journalists from the Zimbabwe Independent newspaper for reporting his winter break. Editor Iden Wetherell, news editor Vincent Kahiya and senior...

The Associated Press JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Sept. 27 — With tens of thousands of South Africans dying from the ravages of AIDS, Denis Matwa saw a rare glimmer of hope when his government abandoned its insistence that AIDS medicines are poison and declared them effective in treating the disease. For 31-year-old Matwa and millions of other South Africans infected with HIV, it was a sign the government would provide the powerful medicines that changed AIDS from a death sentence to a chronic disease in wealthier countries. But 17 months and an estimated 300,000 AIDS deaths later, the drugs still aren't...

Nightly massacres defy EU force By Adrian Blomfield in Bunia, Congo (Filed: 13/06/2003) The tribal militia controlling the Congolese town of Bunia is carrying out nightly massacres, executing civilians and burying them in mass graves, despite the presence of a French-led European Union combat force, a Daily Telegraph investigation has established. By day the military camp at Simbiliyabo on the eastern outskirts of Bunia looks like any other Congolese rebel installation, but at night it becomes a death camp. At about 9pm every evening drunken Hema militiamen, high on drugs and their hatred for every other tribe, pour out of...

Zimbabwe is dying a slow and terrible death. The nation once known as Rhodesia in southeastern Africa, was for most of the 20th century, the breadbasket of the continent. Following independence from Britain, it became the richest agricultural exporter in the region. It had a thriving economy, good schools, and even a relatively free democratic tradition—both before and after Black enfranchisement. Today though, there is no fuel available anywhere in the country for cars, trucks, or tractors. Food production has all but halted. Store shelves are empty. Unemployment has reached over 80 percent while the annual inflation rate has skyrocketed...

Orgies of bloody murder have left Congo traumatised By Declan Walsh, in Bunia, D R Congo 31 May 2003 When the came for Joseph Nzeloy, the Congolese gunmen had an argument. Should they kill the farmer's family by slicing open their stomachs, cutting their throats or chopping off their heads? After a thought, they decided. With a gun to his temple, Mr Nzeloy, 62, watched as the killers grabbed his wife, eight children and two brothers, and bound them. Then, one by one, they sliced their throats. Mr Nzeloy survived after being left for dead. "I heard everything but could...

AT the age of seven months, Thinkmore Mwinde could hardly be accused of harbouring dangerous opposition thoughts, even in the deranged political landscape of President Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. The same cannot be said of his mother, Regina, 39, who voted for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), and is now being punished for that by Mr Mugabe. She is being denied the maize meal she and her seven children need to survive. Mrs Mwinde, along with an overwhelming majority of the impoverished Tonga people in Zimbabwe’s north-western district of Binga, voted for Joel Gabbuza in the March presidential elections, giving the...

NOBEL Prize laureate Wole Soyinka has launched a scathing attack on President Mugabe's land reform programme saying it was worse than Russian dictator Joseph Stalin's collectivisation in which millions died. In an online discussion forum hosted by The Black World Today, a United States-based African American website which has in the past expressed strong sympathy for Mugabe, Soyinka berated the African Union questioning whether it would respond to Mugabe's "state thuggery" and "cynical crudeness". He questioned why Mugabe had failed to respond to the land problem in the past 22 years. "Even Stalin in his mad race to collectivise land...

A UNITED Nations meeting on endangered species in Santiago this week rejected outright Zimbabwe’s request to resume limited trade in ivory, saying the country did not have the capacity to monitor such sales due to corruption and political instability. Delegates at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) however voted to let Zimbabwe’s neighbours South Africa, Botswana and Namibia to stage one-off sales of their ivory stockpiles from 2004 in a clear signal to Harare that the world is unhappy with Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe has been rocked by on-off political violence since President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU PF nearly...

Editor's note: Monitor staff correspondent Danna Harman and staff photographer Andy Nelson spent three weeks in southern Africa, looking at the causes behind widespead food shortages facing six nations. This is the first in a four-part series. By Danna Harman The Liberty Grace set sail from Louisiana on a hot, sticky evening in late August. Capt. John Codispoti and his crew steered downriver to the mouth of the Mississippi, across the Gulf of Mexico, and in the early morning hours of Sept. 3, hit the open ocean and turned toward Africa. On board, sealed in six cavernous holds, were 50,000...

ZWNEWS 13 November 2002 Breaking news direct to your mailbox Visit www.zwnews.com - the world's leading website on Zimbabwe   SW Radio Africa : In Zimbabwe, tune in to the short-wave broadcast at 6145 KHz in the 49m band. Outside the broadcast area, you can listen to SW Radio Africa over the internet at www.swradioafrica.com . Broadcast times are between 6pm and 9pm Zimbabwe time daily.   In this issue : 'Worse than Ethiopia' - TimesWFP to start urban food aid - DNewsLibyans deny oil deal collapse - DNewsUS charity worker shot - DTelNkala trial postponed - VOADemocracy award for...

U.S. Embassy Investigating Shooting Posted: 10:03 a.m. EST November 12, 2002 HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Border police in Zimbabwe shot and killed a Connecticut man who was on a humanitarian mission in Africa, the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday. Richard Gilman, 58, a computer consultant and former teacher from Torrington, Conn., was shot near the border with Mozambique on Monday after allegedly speeding from a police roadblock, police and state media said. "The circumstances of the death remain unclear," a statement from the U.S. Embassy said. "We have sent people there to talk to anyone who can help us understand what happened."...

ZWNEWS 12 November 2002 Breaking news direct to your mailbox Visit www.zwnews.com - the world's leading website on Zimbabwe   SW Radio Africa : In Zimbabwe, tune in to the short-wave broadcast at 6145 KHz in the 49m band. Outside the broadcast area, you can listen to SW Radio Africa over the internet at www.swradioafrica.com . Broadcast times are between 6pm and 9pm Zimbabwe time daily.   In this issue : No fuel, again - IOLZim pleads for SA help - StarSA could extend fuel lifeline - BDayWads of Ferraris - M&GMP survives second assassination attempt - BBC  No talks till...

Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 after an 8-year civil war during which thousands of people from all walks of life lost their lives. It was a no holds barred, "low intensity guerrilla war" to use the US parlance. The civil war ended 90 years of white settler government, which had denied the black majority their legal and political rights for many years. Initially the new Government met expectations - improvements to health and education systems enabled the majority of Zimbabweans to secure an education and health care was widely acknowledged as being the best in Africa. But...