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/ 24 January 2005
Minister of Education Naledi Pandor officially launched the South African Education internet portal while visiting schools in George, her department said on Monday. The bright green site is easy to access and registration is simple. But the search for online information seems a bit more complicated, the Mail & Guardian Online found.
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/ 21 January 2005
A new global survey shows that nowhere else in the world have house prices increased more than in South Africa. According to the survey, house prices in South Africa increased by an average of 32,6% in 2004, followed by Hong Kong at 27,2% and Spain at 17,2%. The survey was undertaken by <i>ResearchWorldwide.com</i>.
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/ 20 January 2005
Award-winning author and television scriptwriter K Sello Duiker was found hanged in Johannesburg on Wednesday night. Before his death, Duiker had been working as a commissioning editor for the South African Broadcasting Corporation. His first novel, <i>Thirteen Cents</i>, attracted considerable publicity and won a 2001 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
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/ 20 January 2005
Due in part to the high-profile launch of Mark Shuttleworth’s new Ubuntu open-source operating system, more and more ordinary computer users are realising that there is life after Windows. To help them on their way, a new magazine, <i>Tectonic</i>, will be launched in South Africa in March.
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/ 18 January 2005
The new loveLife campaign for 2005 was launched last week. It is again a message that is hard to understand.
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/ 18 January 2005
Google, the world’s top search engine, has quietly launched a local version of its website. Since Friday last week, South African web users can search in four local languages: Afrikaans, Sesotho, isiZulu and Xhosa (but it’s spelled "Xhousea"). It is also possible to search only South African sites, instead of the whole internet.
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/ 10 January 2005
<i>The Citizen</i> newspaper’s front-page picture on Monday showed a crowd of people fleeing a large wave. The newspaper said the photograph had been taken by an amateur photographer in Sri Lanka. A five-minute internet search yielded the same photograph, taken in China in October 2002, of the annual flooding of the Qiantang river.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) and tour operator Wild Adventures Africa are asking South Africans to donate money to help animals in the countries struck by the tsunami. The NSPCA has pointed out that the rescue of farm animals is crucial to local economies.
The provincial department of education in Mpumalanga will not take any disciplinary action against the whistleblower who reported irregularities in the province’s matric exams to the police. The Sunday Times reported this week that the department planned to take actions against the whistleblower.
DA slams action against whistleblower
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/ 10 December 2004
Mark Schmidt came home last week. He is back in Tzaneen, Limpopo, after being in prison in Equatorial Guinea for eight-and-a-half months.