Sea turtles can navigate themselves around the world with their own equivalent of the global positioning system, scientists believe after new research. Turtles are able to navigate across thousands of kilometres of ocean relying on the Earth’s magnetic fields. Scientists have wanted to know how turtles make vast Atlantic journeys, returning to specific feeding sites with pinpoint accuracy.
South Africa’s largest mobile communications group, Vodacom, which is 50% owned by listed telecommunications giant Telkom, reported a 36,9% growth in net profits to R3-billion for the year ended March. The group’s customer base increased by 29,7% over the year to 11,2-million customers.
The European Union is considering sending peacekeepers to Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where scores have died since the town was overrun by rebellious soldiers, Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel said on Monday.
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The ambiance at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 14th annual Africa Economic Summit, which took place in Maputo last week, was markedly more relaxed than previous gatherings in Durban, as participants and the media fell under the spell of the Mozambicans’ slower but friendly pace of life and took advantage of the city’s excellent food and nightlife.
South African largest mobile communications group, Vodacom, on Monday said it has not written-off the possibility of investing in Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria. Speaking after the release of the company’s annual results, Vodacom CEO Alan Knott-Craig alluded to the fact that Nigeria provides excellent growth opportunities.
South African telecommunications utility Telkom has allocated R7,7-million to programmes designed to control the HIV/Aids pandemic in its 2004/05 financial year, Telkom CEO Sizwe Nxasana announced on Monday. Earlier in the day Telkom reported a sterling set of results in its first year as a listed company.
Lobbyists for the computer industry insisted on Sunday that a European Union decision finding Microsoft guilty of anti-competitive behaviour must stand, ahead of an expected appeal by the United States software giant. The Computer and Communications Industry Association said the March ruling by the European Commission was fair.
Perhaps the earth heals faster than people. The sand of Normandy’s beaches is blond now rather than crimson; the sea runs summer-blue rather than corpse-red. The hills and farmland do not squelch underfoot with human blood, but roll green and serene. In 60 years, the wounds that D-Day inflicted on the landscape have closed over.
Ousted Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Sunday delivered a sermon at the St Michael’s Anglican church in Alexandra township north of Johannesburg. Reverend Samson Makhalemele said the purpose of Aristide’s visit was to worship and to feel the presence of the Lord.
United States Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday warned against what he described as a ”bantustan” solution of the Palestinian problem, insisting that the West Bank portion of a future Palestinian state should be contiguous. ”In the West Bank, you’ve got to have a coherent, contiguous land, which, joined with Gaza, would constitute the state of Palestine,” Powell told CNN television from France.