A new superfast transistor is set to revolutionise computer chips, writes Michael Brooks Researchers at Yale University have developed a transistor so sensitive that it can watch single electrons moving along a wire. The presence of one electron in the transistor switches it on, and it switches on and off 1 000 times as fast […]
Phillip Kakaza Live in Johannesburg Difficulties with the political situation at home in Kinshasa, Zaire, prompted them to seek refuge in neighbouring countries. Their first stop was Cameroon, second Kenya and then Namibia. They later settled in South Africa where, on arrival, they were faced with humiliation. But The Fantastique Guys, a 12-piece band, never […]
charge Sechaba ka’Nkosi Inkatha Freedom Party moderates have bounced back to centre stage in championing the party’s election campaign for next year. As the IFP grapples with its image as a Zulu-based provincial outfit, its national council has carefully avoided choosing people associated with violence in KwaZulu- Natal and Gauteng in the 1990s to lead […]
Wetsho-Otsile Seremane Personal History The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s decision not to hold public hearings on human rights violations by some African National Congress members in Quatro and other camps (“TRC ducks Quatro”, June 26 to July 2) is shocking, to say the the least. It is a slap in the face for those families […]
controversy Twenty-four years have passed and Cyprus appears to be no closer to finding a solution to its problem. Tracy Spencer reports Annita Georgiou can remember the fragrance from the lemon trees which used to drift through her home town, Famagusta, when she was a child of seven. Today Georgiou is 31 and the lemon […]
FRIDAY 3PM: MPUMALANGA’S sacked deputy speaker, Cynthia Maropeng, and two senior suspended legislature officials had their passports confiscated on Friday morning after being arrested on nine cases of fraud and theft in Nelspruit, Justin Arenstein reports. The visibly surprised suspects were granted R5000 bail each by magistrate Willie Wilkens at a hastily convened court hearing […]
Wally Mbhele The head of a KwaZulu-Natal prison who was recently suspended after his alleged involvement in the death of a prisoner is back at work. Minister of Correctional Services Sipho Mzimela promised an inquiry into the actions of Sipho Dlamini, head of the Ingwavuma prison. Prisoners claim they were not informed that the inquiry […]
Niki Barker A major British film company has based itself in the safari town of Hluhluwe in northern Zululand to make the film version of Kuki Gallman’s book, I Dreamed of Africa. Confirmed leads are Oscar-winning actress Kim Basinger (LA Confidential) and Vincent Perez (Swept from the Sea). Hugh Hudson (Chariots of Fire, Greystoke) will […]
Mungo Soggot About a year ago at the Land Bank it took 13 signatures to authorise a cheque for R1 500. Non-menial staff at its Pretoria head office were all white, women had to wear uniforms and there were several married couples. The men in these couples were never managers, because of a rule which […]
success Allan Glogauer On stage in Cape Town Deon Oppermann’s One Man’s Life was something of an oddity at the Grahamstown Festival this year. Of its seven performances, six were sold out and the other grabbed a 95% house. It’s been touring for over a year, and Oppermann happily confirms that it’s been similarly successful […]