Tapping into a growing trend, Mugg & Bean coffee shops are now offering wireless internet access (Wi-Fi) at four of their stores in South Africa.
South Africa is perfecting cheaper and more effective HIV tests, according to reports on diagnostic tests presented at a conference.
Two American fugitives, on the FBI’s most wanted list for a spate of bank robberies across the American West in the Nineties, were arrested in Cape Town on Tuesday after years on the run. They had been living and working in the Mother City for at least two years.
Cleric Allan Boesak says that if he had taken the stand in his own defence in his year 2000 trial, Archbishop Desmond Tutu could also have ended up facing criminal charges.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=19316">Boesak feels ‘ignored and discarded'</a>
A weaker rand and a sterling performance by gold stocks lifted the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) into positive territory on Wednesday. Gains were seen across the board, with advancers outnumbering decliners on the all-share index by more than three to one in late morning trade.
A new strain of one of the most virulent e-mail viruses ever spread quickly worldwide on Tuesday morning, causing fresh annoyance to users worn out by last week’s outbreak of the Blaster worm.
Dr Allan Boesak says there is ”no way” he can accept an award from the African National Congress for his role in the forming of the United Democratic Front.
Legislation paving the way for the continued existence of Armscor was tabled in
Parliament on Wednesday, following significant changes that occurred in the 1990s in respect of the corporation.
The South African polar vessel SA Agulhas was on Wednesday steaming south at full speed from Marion Island to intercept the fleeing Uruguayan trawler Viarsa 1.
So long and thanks for the fish
Thousands of Bushmen have been forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana. Reasons given for the evictions have included the Bushmen’s "development", and conservation of the area, but diamond mining companies are being blamed.