As I write this, I’m sitting on my couch with my feet up on the coffee table. My laptop is, well, on my lap and my handheld in my pocket (does that make it a pocket-held?). My computer is connected to my wireless home network, which, in turn, is connected to my super-fast, always-on ADSL internet connection. Next to me is my wife. She’s watching a satellite broadcast of Desperate Housewives on our flat-screen TV.
A five-year-old boy at Zululand’s eMachakwini Primary School was allegedly forced to drink urine by his teacher, the KwaZulu-Natal education department said on Monday. The boy allegedly urinated in a bucket, and his teacher told him he could either have his penis chopped off or drink the urine.
Telkom chief executive Sizwe Nxasana will not be renewing his service contract, the Telkom board announced on Monday. ”Nxasana will work closely with the new CEO to ensure an orderly handover of his responsibilities prior to his departure,” said Chairperson Nomazizi Mtshotshisa.
Nigeria is heading towards an Argentinian-style default on its -billion of overseas debt unless western creditors accept a deal to alleviate the country’s financial burden, a delegation from West Africa’s biggest economy said in London on Monday.
High in the snow-capped Hindu Kush, visitors stream in to see the new governor. A huddle of turbaned men carry plastic sunflowers in a gold vase, nodding respectfully. Mountain farmers come wrapped in wool blankets. The British ambassador flies in from Kabul.
Rescuers were working through the night on Monday in a desperate search for survivors after at least 71 people were killed when a packed morning commuter train smashed into an apartment block in western Japan in the country’s worst rail crash for more than 40 years.
‘We are not learning to use computers – we are using computers to learn”. This is becoming one of the frequently-used phrases of the educator development projects that are currently being rolled out nationally by SchoolNet SA. Three projects are currently being run by SchoolNet SA. The Telkom Foundation is the sponsor of the Telkom […]
An ambitious recycling campaign for a cleaner environment, reports Grace Black An initiative to collect discarded plastic bottles got underway in Gauteng last month at the start of World Environment Week. The programme will run for three years during which South Africa hopes to set an example to the world by collecting 5 000 tons […]
All nine hopefuls who made the final of the Anglo American/Sowetan 2001 Young Communicators Award showed they had the gift of the gab, reports Edwin Naidu The speeches at the final of the Anglo American/Sowetan 2001 Young communicators Award were of a high quality and touched on contemporary issues, such as South Africa’s ability to […]
5fm’s Mark Gillman is the face – and voice – of the SAPS national teddy bear collection campaign. And he’s got pupils throughout South Africa to become Gilly the Kid’s deputies. Gilly the Kid’s deputies encourage people under 16 to commit themselves to making South Africa a better place for young people. Teenagers are asked […]