Korgo, a new virus that can infect Windows 2000 and XP systems simply by connecting them to the internet, continued to spread worldwide on Friday, installing a tiny spy that can record what keys were pressed at secret moments such as typing passwords.
Amid rising global security concerns, Southern Africa’s profile is growing as a safe destination for tourists, investors, global events and skilled immigrants, Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota said on Friday. It is not by accident that more high-profile international events and investments are coming to this part of the world, Lekota said.
Four United States soldiers were killed and five wounded on Friday when a blast struck their convoy on the edge of the Shi’ite militia stronghold of Sadr City, the US military said. Witnesses said the convoy was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade before a roadside bomb was detonated.
Both the ruling African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance have named their members who will serve on an ad hoc committee to consider the public protector’s probe into a complaint against the national director of public prosecutions.
Lionel Abrahams, who died this week aged 76, was one of South Africa’s most influential and beloved literary figures. He was responsible for getting key 1970s poets such as Oswald Mtshali and Mongane Serote into print for the first time, but also took a huge amount of flak in the 1980s and 1990s for his views on the inadequacy of political rhetoric as a poetic programme. Shaun de Waal reflects.
United States employers added almost a quarter of a million jobs in May, extending a nine-month hiring spree and accommodating enough job seekers to hold the unemployment rate steady at 5,6% of the labour force. Payrolls swelled by almost one million in the past three months alone, the US Department of Labour said on Friday.
When you hear the word rap, what springs to mind? Brash young men dripping with jewellery, surrounded by hot-panted hos? Mouths shouting brand names and hymns to greed? It’s time you met MC Solaar. The espresso-drinking rapper talks to Phil Daoust.
In every worthy cause, in every struggle for emancipation, there is, perhaps, risk of fatigue. Feminism fatigue is widely felt, echoing other unannounceable fatigues. A new book that accompanies the art exhibition, Through the Looking Glass, provides a potent commentary on female identity, writes Carolyn Hamilton.
Nearly everyone under the age of 15 appears to have swallowed the official line on Avril Lavigne: that she is an authentic symbol of punk rebellion, an antidote to manufactured pop. Everyone else is perplexed, largely because she could be no more obviously manufactured if she had a barcode taped to her forehead, writes Alexis Petridis.
The state closed its case against accused rapist and murderer William Kekana on Friday in the Temba Circuit High Court outside Pretoria. Advocate Dewald Reynierse cross-examined Kekana on his evidence-in-chief heard on Thursday, by trying to show the court that Kekana had been party to the crime.
State, defence battle in Kekana trial