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/ 5 February 2007
The biggest threat to banking customers is the increase in online fraud. According to Alewyn Burger, chief executive of Standard Bank personal and business banking, there has been a 50% growth in spyware in the past 20 months, and a 16-fold increase in virus manufacturing over the past three years.
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/ 26 January 2007
The construction boom in South Africa is to receive a prop from an unlikely quarter: Zimbabwe. The demand for cement continues to outstrip supply in South Africa because of private developers and public works programmes — including construction of new stadiums for the 2010 World Cup.
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/ 24 January 2007
Percy Zvomuya reviews Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s latest offering <i>Wizard of the Crow</i>.
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/ 19 January 2007
The <i>Mail & Gurdian</i>’s Percy Zvomuya spoke to Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka in Accra about the situation in the Niger Delta where there are ongoing clashes between the Nigerian army, local armed groups and the communities over the exploitation and management of oil resources, democracy in Nigeria and the situation in Zimbabwe.
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/ 15 December 2006
There is method in the seemingly mad decision by Orlando Pirates not to participate in next year’s Confederation of African Football Champions League: each time they do well in the continental competition, they suffer domestically. But will withdrawing from the competition do any favours for Southern African soccer?
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/ 11 December 2006
A case in which online casino operators challenged a ban on internet gambling was thrown out of court last week. But experts question whether the judgement of the Pretoria High Court is enforceable. It has also emerged that the National Gambling Board, one of the defendants, has submitted a report to the minister of trade and industry recommending the legalisation and taxation of internet gambling.
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/ 4 December 2006
You have to hand it to Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir — unlike most strongmen in the world, he at least has a sense of occasion. This week, while holding a live press conference from Sudan — with reporters from Washington, London, Paris, Moscow, Cairo, Beirut and Pretoria, who joined in by video link — he found it necessary to accuse ”the media [of] spreading false information”.
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/ 24 November 2006
It’s difficult to get a direct answer from the new Auditor General, Terence Nombembe, even to a question as personal and direct as: ”Do you think you should be paid more?” He has a way of responding without really answering the question. To this he would only answer: ”I think I should be paid a package that is commensurate with the job that I do.”
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/ 20 November 2006
Mike van Graan’s <i>Some Mothers’ Sons</i> is a minimalist two-hander that jumps back and forth between the mid-1980s and present-day South Africa, writes Percy Zvomuya.
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/ 20 November 2006
Percy Zvomuya speaks to director Michael Lessac about theatre confronting pain.