innovations Samsung has created a spectacularly fast Graphics Memory Chip: a 128MB DDR-SDRAM. That’s a bigger memory than most PCs have in the form of conventional memory. The new chip runs at 500 megabits a second (mbps), and will allow gamers especially to experience far higher resolution and clarity of image. Samsung claim the chips […]

Chris Dunton Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe (Oxford University Press) Novels such as Things Fall Apart and A Man of the People have been so successful worldwide they have tended to overshadow Chinua Achebe’s non-fictional works. For over 30 years, though, the Nigerian has been demonstrating he is a master essayist. His new book, […]

DUMISANE LUBISI and OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pietersburg | Friday A PIETERSBURG brother and sister’s 20-year incestuous relationship – which produced two children – has been exposed after their younger brother spilled the beans after a blazing family row. Police say the man is in his early 40s and his sister in her late 30s. They have […]

A national sporting body’s reluctance to take action against a child molester has highlighted the vulnerability of disabled children Stefaans Brmmer T wo sports associations for the disabled kept on a senior executive, sentenced to 10 years in jail for sexually assaulting a 16- year-old Down’s Syndrome girl, giving him the opportunity to continue working […]

Barry Streek The Independent newspaper group’s editors won a significant victory over the company’s management this week when executives abandoned their hardline stance that they have the right to publish free advertisements without the editors’ approval. The group’s management conceded in a statement, issued by its chief executive officer, Ivan Fallon, and its chief operating […]

STEVEN SWINDELLS AND OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday SOUTH African diamond giant De Beers has ruled itself out of a bid for Canada’s Dia Met Minerals Ltd, which put itself up for sale earlier this week. De Beers had been mentioned as a likely suitor for the Canadian miner after its purchases this year of […]

SOUTH Africa’s Digicore Holdings Ltd is on track to achieve its forecast turnover of R300m by June 2001 on the back of a number of large orders, including a R150m order from Debis Fleet Management. In August Digicore had reported poor earnings for the year to June 30, 2000, blaming restructuring costs and tough trading […]

SOUTH Africa’s Impala Platinum (Implats) has recovered a R22m, 30-tonne shipment of platinum group metals matte, which was stolen by hijackers, at a scrapyard warehouse in Alberton. The matte – an intermediate form of metal which has the appearance of granulated, heavy black powder – was being shipped to the company’s Springs refinery from its […]

sunday, 1.15pm I’m at my mom’s house, enjoying a traditional Cape Flats lunch: yellow rice, beetroot, sweetcorn, overcooked carrots, roast potatoes, roast chicken, roast lamb – you know, the usual. I hungrily stare at the prepared feast and momentarily experience feelings of guilt about the fact that I’m not vegetarian, thinking how devastated some of […]

ALISTAIR THOMSON, Abidjan | Friday IVORY Coast’s army ruler General Robert Guei has vowed to stand down if he loses Sunday’s presidential election – but claims have already been levelled that soldiers loyal to Guei are trying to rig the poll. Guei, who is running against four other hopefuls, appealed to the people to ignore […]