Activists opposed to genetically engineered (GE) foods have slammed the Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs for issuing permits allowing the growing and release on to the South African market of the world’s first GE white maize.
Activities of a company claiming to enforce copyright piracy laws appear designed to drive small competitors of the big film and video games distribution companies out of the market.
Africans must find their own solutions to their problems rather than pointing fingers. Dinesh D’Souza’s two cheers for colonialism must look exceptionally preposterous to some. If I were John Matshikiza I wouldn’t have reacted as furiously as he.
If top soccer administrators are determined to make a laughing stock of themselves, fine, but when will South Africa decide that it doesn’t deserve these men?
SMALL traders in South Africa are up in arms against a Johannesburg-based organisation that claims it enforces copyright piracy laws for major international corporations such as Sony, Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures and others.
DESPITE new laws and measures to ensure the humane treatment of suspected illegal immigrants and refugees, reports and allegations persist of police brutality against foreigners, who in most cases have little or no recourse to justice
When Harold Obunga* made his way to Johannesburg from his native Kenya in 1998, he never thought he would, holder of a postgraduate degree in economics from the University of Nairobi, end up on Pretoria’s Van der Walt Street handing out flyers to passers-by.