Yearly Archives: 1999

Having led the way with cellphones, the Finns are making the Net move. Vic Keegan visits virtual Helsinki for a vision of the future In the middle of Helsinki’s bustling town centre, by the Lasipalatsi (Glass Palace), there is what looks like a telephone booth made of pinewood. Go inside the kiosk and you are […]

Gavin Foster explains why we should welcome the third cellphone operator with open arms Two’s company, but three’s a crowd. That’s the line taken by cellphone giants MTN and Vodacom, who both believe that the soon-to- be-announced third player in the cellular game will have a long, hard slog ahead before realising profits. But it’s […]

Robert Kirby Channel Vision Whether e.tv is going to survive is, of course, anybody’s guess. A lot of people think it should, usually on the grounds that e.tv is a necessary evil, an independent entity against which the SABC and M-Net may be assessed. This is nonsense. The one thing SABC television has never lacked […]

Chris McGreal Tens of thousands of Angolans are flooding into overcrowded cities to escape fighting during the latest government offensive to break the siege of major centres by the Unita rebels. The predicted assault to recover ground lost during a disastrous army offensive earlier this year comes amid increasing international pressure on the Angolan administration […]

Marianne Merten Outgoing University of Cape Town (UCT)head Dr Mamphela Ramphele is confident she leaves behind a world-class institution of academic excellence in Africa. The student activist turned university vice-chancellor is set to take up one of four World Bank managing director posts towards the middle of next year. She will be responsible for human […]

Drag queens have never been treated like royalty but they have been at the forefront in the battle for gay acceptance, writes Charl Blignaut On the top of my stack of photocopies of old issues of the Golden City Post filed away in the Gay and Lesbian Archive of South Africa (Gala) is a particularly […]

Former president Nelson Mandela’s Houghton, Johannesburg, office was flooded with 20000 postcards and letters.

When you’re tired of reports of crime, rape, murder and general mayhem, put Nelson Mandela: The Symbol of a Nation CD in your computer.

The editor of The Times of Swaziland’s Sunday edition was asked to resign this week after publishing an article about the king’s wife. Bheki Makhubu describes how he was axed After having edited The Times of Swaziland’s Sunday edition for six years, it was rather a rude shock to realise just much the Swazi people […]

Donna Block SHARE WORLD ‘Zip, zap, zum,” said the magicians at my son’s birthday party. Now you see it, now you don’t. They made things disappear and reappear, turned paper into flowers and fire into a bottle of Coke, truly amazing. They entertained and kept the kids quiet with their amazing feats. But at the […]