Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the internet, some university researchers with the federal government’s blessing want to scrap all that and start over. Many believe a ”clean slate” approach is the only way truly to address challenges that have cropped up in this time.
Six warders from Krugersdorp Prison appeared in the town’s magistrate’s court on Monday in connection with the deaths of three inmates over the weekend. The men are alleged to have seriously assaulted the prisoners on Saturday night after an apparent gang fight. The prisoners were taken to hospital, but died shortly afterwards.
The finances of the United Independent Front (UIF) came under scrutiny in an application heard in the Cape High Court on Monday. The application was brought by Neville Hendricks and Mzwandile Manjiya, who say they are the UIF’s deputy president and secretary general respectively.
A commission of inquiry will investigate racism at a Western Cape school after an assault on a coloured pupil was captured on a cellphone video, the provincial education department said on Monday. The cellphone clip shows a grade-nine pupil being assaulted by a fellow pupil while their teacher looks on and fails to intervene.
The Johannesburg metro police is embarking on a mission to recruit and train 500 new metro police officers every year until 2010. The plan is to ensure that there are 4 000 officers by 2010, said Superintendent Wayne Minnaar on Monday. The new recruits will undergo basic training for six months and field training for a further six months.
Hollywood is banking that good things really do come in threes as it prepares to unleash an unprecedented series of blockbuster sequels on the box office. Three of the most profitable franchises in history release their long-awaited third instalments next month: Pirates of the Caribbean, Spider-Man and Shrek.
South Africa’s national parks are poised for a surge in gay tourism now that a tourist operator has launched a series of tours designed to initiate gay visitors to the delights of the savannah. While Cape Town is one of the world’s top five gay holiday destinations, the operator aims to lure gay tourists out of the Mother City.
Motorists should brace for another big hike in petrol prices next month of up to 40c a litre, according to media reports on Tuesday. Motorists swallowed the country’s biggest fuel price rise of 68c in April. Rampant oil prices are the culprit, with upward price pressure expected to continue until next month.
Outspoken Zimbabwean Roman Catholic archbishop Pius Ncube said in an interview published on Tuesday that he understood that he may lose his life over his continued critical stance against President Robert Mugabe’s regime. Ncube also criticised Zimbabwe’s neighbours for not doing more to avert the crisis.
A commission of inquiry will investigate racism at a Western Cape school after an assault on a coloured pupil was captured on a cellphone, the provincial education department said on Monday. The video clip shows grade nine pupil Pequestro Dyssel being assaulted by a fellow pupil while their teacher looked on.