Yearly Archives: 2001

Adobe has made its name in superb design software, but it may well be remembered for arguably its most useful gift to the software world: the Portable Document Format (PDF). Saving any document you have created in a Microsoft Office program is easier with the latest release, Acrobat 5, and you can select a range […]

Jaspreet Kindra Men in rural KwaZulu-Natal constantly said they did not need to change their sexual behaviour because “the big man” President Thabo Mbeki believed sex and HIV/Aids were not linked, according to an Anglican bishop. “That is the message that is destroying human lives across this country, and for which President Mbeki is being […]

The former head of the presidential investigative unit ‘was offered bribes’ to take the rap Zenzile Khoisan Senior police officials are probing detailed claims of an attempt by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) to cover up damaging evidence in the trial of a top policeman and save face for former safety and security minister Sydney […]

Three directors of the struggling TV station’s holding company are to share R4-million Glenda Daniels and David Macfarlane It will be a grim Christmas for e.tv staffers when, for the third year running, they go off on vacation without a bonus. But the three executive directors of e.tv’s loss-making holding company, Hoskens Consolidated Investments (HCI) […]

Leading members of our Jewish community have crossed swords over Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land and its inhumane treatment of its inhabitants. Allow me to congratulate comrade Ronnie Kasrils for speaking out against it. It gives me hope. Allow me also to salute the Jewish Board of Deputies for engaging Kasrils in the international debate […]

analysis Salman Rushdie The world’s leaders have repeated the mantra “This isn’t about Islam” for weeks, partly in the virtuous hope of deterring reprisal attacks on innocent Muslims living in the West, partly because, if the United States is to maintain its coalition against terror, it can’t afford to allege that Islam and terrorism are […]

There were 443 exhibitors from 38 countries, including 18 national pavilions 88 South African companies exhibited Exhibition space was 16 567m2 Other participants: 51 government ministers 181 delegates from administrations 36 directors general 24 ambassadors 183 chief executive officers 1 092 forum participants (including speakers) from 101 countries 295 speakers from 81 countries 251 accredited […]

The retirement of legendary lock John Eales leaves the captaincy of the Wallabies in George Gregan’s capable hands, writes Jim White George Gregan has just returned from training, hobbling in behind the rest of the Australian rugby union squad as they troop back to their hotel. Strapped to his right ankle is a complicated arrangement […]

Matthew Engel in New York New York was stunned into silence this week a silence that in a normal year would be called shocked, even grief-stricken. The cause was a sporting defeat, but this was no ordinary defeat: the New York Yankees, the most successful team in the history of American sport, were beaten at […]

Jaspreet Kindra The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has accused the government of reneging on an election pledge to cross-subsidise the electricity tariffs of the poor. Cosatu was reacting to the National Electricity Regulator’s approval of a 6,2% annual price hike for Eskom the first above-inflation increase in more than 10 years. The […]