Chad and the United Nations Children’s Fund began on Friday to send home 103 African children that a French charity had sought to fly to France in October for adoption, authorities said. Eighty-three children were the first to leave an orphanage in Abeche, eastern Chad, on Friday in two buses.
Nationalising the University of the Free State (UFS), ”to protect the national asset”, must start immediately, the African National Congress and its alliance partners said on Friday. About 1 000 workers from various unions marched to the UFS to hand over the demand, contained in a memorandum on racism at the institution.
Cyclone Jokwe, which has wreaked havoc in Mozambique, was downgraded on Friday to a tropical depression, allaying fears of a damaging hit to the tourism town of Vilankulo. However, the cyclone, now heading towards Madagascar, still had Mozambique’s coastal regions on yellow alert.
Thousands of teachers in Zimbabwe’s state schools have ended a three-week strike after being awarded a 754% salary increase by the government, their union said on Friday. ”We urge teachers to return to work,” said Raymond Majongwe, secretary general of the Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe.
Two of the country’s leading oil refineries severely affected by Tuesday night’s heavy downpour in Durban expect to be fully operational this weekend. Due to the rainstorm, at least 40% of the Engen refinery was non-operational over the past 48 hours, while the nearby Sapref plant was completely shut down.
Racism alive and well The University of the Free State race video should not have surprised so many people. The truth is that racism is alive and well, and is aided and abetted by the government, which insists on classifying everybody according to their ”race” — as defined by the apartheid regime. The beneficiaries of […]
Sony said this week it will soon sell a record deck that plugs into a computer to let vinyl collectors convert their analogue recordings into digital form. The turntable hooks up with a USB cable to a computer, where special software turns the sound into MP3 or ATRAC format.
France on Tuesday won European Union approval to give â,¬99-million to several companies hoping to build a European rival to United States internet search giant Google. The EU executive says this helped fill a funding gap for something that might not otherwise win financial support.
From iPods to navigation systems, some of today’s hottest gadgets are landing on store shelves with some unwanted extras from the factory — pre-installed viruses that steal passwords, open doors for hackers and make computers spew spam. In most cases, Chinese factories are the source.
Google expanded its power in online advertising on Tuesday when it completed its takeover of DoubleClick, a move that increases the pressure on rival Microsoft to win its hostile bid for Yahoo!. The merger came after European regulators signed off on the deal, and strengthened Google’s domination of the lucrative online ad business.