Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Friday he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed web search service that would compete with search engines such as Google or Yahoo! The new Wikia search service will combine computer-driven algorithms and human-assisted editing.
A picture of death and destruction emerged on Monday as officials counted the cost of veld fires that ravaged several provinces. By late afternoon, nine fires were still burning in Mpumalanga and Swaziland. More runaway fires were also reported in KwaZulu-Natal.
National Empowerment Fund chief executive Philisiwe Buthelezi has described the fund’s offer of discounted shares in MTN as "unique, exciting and historic". There have been other retail offerings reserved exclusively for black people over the years, most recently Telkom’s Khulisa scheme.
Vuyo Jack, the young god-father of BEE, is no grey businessman with a one-track mind and an eye only for the figures. He is a philosopher who believes in meditation and had he not decided on becoming a chartered accountant, he would have been a musician and a filmmaker.
The BEE Codes serve as a useful basis on which to benchmark the BEE efforts and initiatives of South African companies. Their strength lies in the fact that they allow everyone to make a contribution to transforming our economy. That said, their breadth often leads to difficult choices, writes Kevin Lester.
A child plays in a stagnant pool of water beside a mongrel dog that gives out a half-hearted bark before retiring in the sun-baked dust. Take a stroll from here into Babylon, an informal settlement. The filth and decay, the lack of water and proper sanitary facilities in Babylon and other informal settlements in Namibia are a blueprint for a disaster.
Nearly 12 000 people have been displaced and one person has died in western Ethiopia in flash floods over the weekend, an official said on Tuesday. ”As of now, we only know that 11 886 people have been displaced and one killed from the flood that resulted from Sunday’s heavy rainfall,” Ojulu Bach, head of disaster prevention programme in the Gambela region, said.
More than 1Â 000 Mozambicans, including children, are trafficked to South Africa every year where they are forced into prostitution or used as free or cheap labour. In response, Mozambique’s Cabinet last week approved a new law that will make human trafficking a crime punishable by long prison sentences.
Each time a Durban woman objected to being kissed while she was being raped, her attacker pressed a Smith and Wesson revolver to her head, the Scottburgh High Court heard on Tuesday. His HIV-positive accomplice then asked her: ”Was it fun? Are we having a good time?”
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday that Zimbabwe’s year-on-year inflation rate could reach over 100 000% by the end of the year. ”If recent monthly trends continue, [IMF] staff projects that year-on-year inflation could well exceed 100 000% by year-end,” Abdoulaye Bio Tchane, director of the IMF’s Africa department, said.