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/ 30 November 2005
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Stop fence-sitting and speak out about HIV, the Inkatha Freedom Party told President Thabo Mbeki on the eve of World Aids Day. ”Come off the fence … admit the high-profile people who are dying of HIV and become a role model for openness,” IFP health spokesperson Ruth Rabinowitz said on Wednesday.
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/ 29 November 2005
Broadband internet access, which finally made an impact on South Africa this year with the first 147 000 users settling into high-speed online lives, will almost double in usage in 2006 to 277 000 users. This is one of the key findings of <i>Broadband in South Africa 2005</i>, a new research report from World Wide Worx.
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/ 28 November 2005
NGOs, activists and other interest groups opposing elephant culling in the Kruger National Park met Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk on Monday. A report from the South African National Parks board in July proposed culling between 5 000 and 7 000 elephants.
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/ 25 November 2005
Daylight saving time (DST) is a reality in more than 70 countries worldwide — but not in South Africa. Budget airline kulula.com, which started its ”Fight for Light” DST campaign on September 1 this year, now claims President Thabo Mbeki has asked one of his ministers to investigate whether South Africa can adopt DST.
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/ 24 November 2005
”This is a newspaper that has been banned, has been closed down, has been sued. The Mail & Guardian bears the scars of a difficult childhood. The broad outlines of the history ought to be known to you. And if they are not known to you, you obviously have not been watching Hard Copy on SABC TV,” said Irwin Manoim, one of the M&G‘s founding editors, at the newspaper’s 20th anniversary celebrations on Thursday.
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/ 16 November 2005
Mobile-services company Exactmobile on Wednesday became the first to launch video ringtones and voice messaging via multimedia messaging service (MMS) in South Africa. Exactmobile has licensed software that enables it to convert music videos into a mobile format.
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/ 15 November 2005
Wikipedians have taken to heart the Mail & Guardian Online‘s recent article ”Can you trust Wikipedia?” (November 10), which evaluated the quality of entries on this popular online encyclopedia. The M&G Online article looked at eight Wikipedia entries, including ones about sangomas, the media in South Africa and the African National Congress.
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/ 14 November 2005
Johannesburg’s bid for the 2010 Gay Games was as solid as a rock, but despite all the bid committee’s efforts, the Games will be hosted by Cologne, Germany. Disappointed members of the Johannesburg bid commission were in Chicago for the announcement and listened to the Federation of Gay Games decision on Sunday.
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/ 10 November 2005
An e-mail doing the rounds in South Africa warns ATM users that organised criminals are installing equipment on the machines to steal both the ATM card number and its PIN. The scam involves a square piece of equipment that is placed in front of the existing bank-card slot.
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/ 10 November 2005
The Wikipedia online encyclopedia is often celebrated for its uniqueness: every internet user can create new articles and edit entries. Wikipedia’s popularity is shown by the fact that it records 1 000 page views per second, with about 100 servers to handle the traffic. However, the quality of entries is uneven; sometimes entries are even factually incorrect.