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/ 21 September 2007
Sport stars, poets and scientists shared the spotlight at a National Orders awards ceremony in Pretoria on Friday. President Thabo Mbeki bestowed South Africa’s highest awards on 20 recipients. Among those receiving awards were Morne du Plessis, Sam Ramsamy, Roland Schoeman, Elisabeth Eybers and Wally Serote.
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/ 21 September 2007
Floods are continuing to ravage an arc of African countries from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa, washing away homes and ruining crops, and have been reported as the worst in years in many states. Uganda is experiencing its worst floods in memory, with about 89 000 households ”severely affected”.
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/ 21 September 2007
The ever-increasing cost of private healthcare undermines the country’s transformation agenda, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Friday. ”There is inadequate level of diversity of ownership and competition within the sector,” she told a private healthcare conference in Midrand.
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/ 21 September 2007
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The state’s premature attempt to gather evidence violates African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma’s right to a fair trial, the Supreme Court of Appeal heard on Friday. The Durban High Court has issued a letter of request for documents from Mauritius the state wants for a possible corruption trial against Zuma.
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/ 21 September 2007
The lack of a sense of shared identity among South Africa’s various cultural groups was cited by Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula on Friday as a barrier to fighting high crime levels. Nqakula was speaking to a business audience in Johannesburg about his plans to bring down some of the world’s highest crime levels.
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/ 21 September 2007
Born 10 years ago, the Google internet search engine has grown into the electronic centre of human knowledge by indexing billions of web pages as well as images, books and videos. On September 15 1997, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two 24-year-old Stanford University students, registered the domain name of ”google.com”.
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/ 21 September 2007
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Thursday challenged the United Nations and its members to break their silence on two men he charged with war crimes in Darfur. Luis Moreno-Ocampo said too little attention had been paid to his arrest warrants, an issue not on the agenda of the talks.
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/ 21 September 2007
Zimbabwe’s information minister on Friday hit out at calls by the Archbishop of York to step up punitive measures against President Robert Mugabe’s government. Archbishop John Sentamu’s comments were misplaced and unfortunate, said Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu.
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/ 21 September 2007
The dozens of entrepreneurs gathered for an exclusive high-tech conference in San Francisco this week all hoped to dazzle the crowd with their ingenuity. But one start-up, Powerset, is pursuing a particularly challenging goal: it is aiming to outshine the internet’s brightest star with a new search engine built to outsmart Google.
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/ 21 September 2007
United States television network NBC will start offering limited free downloads of shows such as Heroes and The Office as part of its bid to expand the digital distribution of its programmes and compete with Apple’s iTunes Store, the network announced.