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/ 20 January 2006
The Southern African NGO Network (Sangonet) will be hosting its first-ever NGO Web Awards in conjunction with its second annual ICTs for Civil Society conference in March this year — and NGOs have less than a month to enter. Sangonet aims to encourage NGOs to use the internet as a communication and advocacy tool.
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/ 17 January 2006
A debt-ridden university student from the United Kingdom has copied another student’s million-dollar concept by selling pixels to advertisers — this time with naked ambition. The website, <i>Stripthestudent.com</i> — "One degree. Lots of debt. No shame." — was developed by the student to pay off his study debt.
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/ 16 January 2006
A woman in a wheelchair died at the Johannesburg International airport on Sunday, possibly from falling down an escalator. According to a witness who did not want to be named, Ponto’s husband was pushing her in a wheelchair in the domestic departure terminal. ”She tipped over, she fell down and then she died,” said the witness.
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/ 13 January 2006
Vehicle-tracking devices are becoming increasingly vital in South Africa, which had 13Â 793 vehicles hijacked and 88Â 144 reported stolen in 2004/05. The country’s three biggest vehicle-tracking companies, Matrix, Tracker and Netstar, have recovered more than 60Â 973 vehicles to date.
Primary-school pupils will more intensely study road safety this year as part of the school curriculum, education ministry spokesperson Tommy Makhode said on Thursday. Road-safety awareness has always been taught in grade one, said Makhode, but now road-safety lessons will be more comprehensive.
Cellphones beeped endlessly as South Africa’s mobile networks entered the New Year a great deal richer with millions of SMSs sent and voice calls made in three days — from December 30 to January 1. Cellular networks Cell C, MTN and Vodacom reported huge increases in their SMS traffic during this period.
Since the beginning of the festive season, 58 people have been treated for malaria in Limpopo, and 23 are in a critical condition at the Donald Fraser hospital in Thohoyandou said Health Department spokesperson Phuti Seloba. ”We urge people to go to the nearest clinic as soon as they start experiencing symptoms of malaria, such as headaches and fever,” he said.
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/ 23 December 2005
A million-dollar concept by a university student in the United Kingdom has created waves on the internet: he is selling pixels to advertisers for $1 each. The <i>Million Dollar Homepage</i> was developed by a 21-year-old student, Alex Tew, to pay for his university fees.
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/ 21 December 2005
loveLife, South Africa’s biggest national HIV-prevention programme for youth, suffered a major setback this week when one of its biggest funders pulled the plug. The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria accounted for 30% of loveLife’s annual budget.
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/ 21 December 2005
Beatrice Mtetwa, a Zimbabwean lawyer and human rights activist, fights for the right to press freedom in a country facing an economic meltdown.