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/ 28 January 2008
Last week, eight of us from the Concerned Writers Group went to visit Eldoret, the town at the epicentre of the clashes in Kenya. Having been born and brought up in the Rift Valley, I know this area well. We spoke to groups of displaced people. We talked with Archbishop Korir, who is legendary for saving the lives of many people who would have been killed in the clashes of 1992 — and now, of 2008.
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/ 28 January 2008
Researchers in Germany have discovered that a protein found in semen makes HIV 100Â 000 times more virulent than it is alone — thus helping to explain why more than 80% of HIV infections are transmitted via sexual intercourse. German scientists had initially set out to determine whether semen contained factors that inhibit HIV infection.
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/ 28 January 2008
Wikia, a profit-oriented company set up by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, is aiming for a public listing in the long term. ”For Wikipedia itself I think we will always be a charity … but for Wikia, my for-profit company, yes, absolutely,” Wales said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos last week.
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/ 28 January 2008
Eskom’s monopoly was the main cause of South Africa’s electricity problems and the solution lay in independent power producers (IPP), the DA said on Monday. While provision was made for IPPs to generate up to 30% of South Africa’s total electricity output, it had to be sold to Eskom and not to other users, party MP Hendrik Schmidt told journalists.
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/ 28 January 2008
Serious concerns were raised in Davos last week about the ability of the Chinese government to spy on the country’s 500-million cellphone users. China’s biggest cellphone company stunned delegates by revealing that the company had unlimited access to the personal data of its customers and handed it over to Chinese security officials when demanded.
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/ 28 January 2008
YouTube on Thursday began making all of its videos available on the latest-generation cellphones as people increasingly shift to accessing the internet on the go. YouTube for Mobile lets people view any of the popular website’s videos, provided their cellphones can stream the data and are linked to a high-speed 3G network.
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/ 28 January 2008
Sudan will seek to head the African Union during the continental body’s upcoming summit at its headquarters in Addis Ababa, a Sudanese official said. Sudan’s two previous bids for the AU’s rotating presidency have been unsuccessful due to reservations over Khartoum’s rights record in the western region of Darfur.
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/ 28 January 2008
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille arrived for a meeting with President Thabo Mbeki at the Union Buildings just before 2pm on Monday. The electricity supply crisis, the indictment of African National Congress president Jacob Zuma and the prosecution of police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi were some of the agenda points for the talks.
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/ 28 January 2008
There is a mismatch in South Africa’s economy between the structural direction in which it is headed and its current skills profile, says Dr Azar Jammine, director and chief economist of Econometrix. While the economy is creating 194 000 jobs, according to formal-sector statistics, 368 000 students passed matric last year.
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/ 28 January 2008
The trial of three people accused of the murder of Avhatakali Netshisaulu, son of City Press editor Mathatha Tsedu, was postponed to July 28 at the Johannesburg High Court on Monday. Initially six people faced charges of murder, robbery with aggravating circumstances, kidnapping and malicious damage to property.