State-held Sentech is constantly rolling out wireless technology in major metropolitan areas despite minimal environmental disturbance to the city skyline, the company said on Thursday. Sentech Broadband Wireless technology is delivered via a high-powered radio signal, using high-site transmitters.
Africa’s political class has been content to reproduce and maintain the colonial order as far as agriculture was concerned, President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday. An example of this was very low budgetary allocations to the sector, he told delegates at the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation’s regional conference in Johannesburg.
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All political parties contesting the April 14 election have been allocated a free political advertisement and party election broadcast (PEB) on the SABC’s radio stations. The parties will be given 132 PEB slots from March 9 to April 10, each one for a two-minute recorded message.
Special Report: Elections 2004
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa on Thursday called for the fight against Aids to be stepped up as he opened a meeting between Southern African ministers and United Nations agencies involved in battling the pandemic. Mwanawasa said his government is committed to providing ”all the political will that is necessary”.
Zimbabwe’s information minister has dismissed new United States sanctions that target him and other members of President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party, saying ”imperialist” Washington could go to hell, a newspaper said on Thursday.
US widens sanctions against Zimbabwe
Spanish doctors have amputated an injured arm, attached it to the patient’s groin for nine days, and replanted it on its stump in an unprecedented operation, news reports said on Thursday. The operation was the first in the world in which a reattached limb was amputated in order to join it with another part of the body.
Revised terms of reference for the ombudsman for banking services (OBS) were unveiled in Johannesburg on Thursday. The terms outline the OBS’s principles, powers and duties. The OBS exists to provide individual and small-business bank customers with a fair, quick and effective dispute resolution process, free of charge.
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union on Thursday denied that it has failed to respond to a request by the airports baggage handing company Equity Aviation Services to return to the negotiating table. Baggage handlers employed by Equity Aviation at two of the country’s major airports have been on strike for more than two months.
Economists Allied for Arms Reduction (Ecaar) will need to have deep pockets to pay the costs of its failed arms deal application to the Cape High Court, says South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel. He said if the application had been successful it would have had ”profound consequences” for South Africa.
The New National Party on Thursday criticised Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon for his latest stance on the death penalty, saying his opportunism knows no end. ”He knows full well that the DA as a party does not support the death penalty,” NNP secretary general Daryl Swanepoel said in a statement.