The South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) news programming chairperson Thami Mazwai has caused a stir again in Parliament by dismissing objectivity in journalism as a ”delusion” that simply ”does not exist”.
The army has began a process of taking back firearms from commandos operating in rural areas, National police commissioner Jackie Selebi said on Tuesday.
Time is running out to prepare for the 2004 elections as the legislation required to regulate the poll is not yet before Parliament, but appears caught in a stalemate between the ministries of home affairs and justice.
Investigative reporters from several African countries launched the new Investigative Reporters Africa (IRA) network during a brainstorming session in Johannesburg last week, the Media Institute of Southern Africa said on Tuesday.
A computer virus that traversed the globe last week struck again in a slightly mutated form over the weekend and continued to spread aggressively through e-mail systems worldwide on Monday.
The European Union’s special envoy for Africa’s Great Lakes region, Aldo Ajello, was on Tuesday set to begin a tour of central Africa aimed at restoring stability in Democratic Republic of Congo’s troubled Ituri region, a statement said.
Worldwide piracy of business software products like Microsoft Office declined slightly in 2002 because of better education and more aggressive tactics in stopping Internet piracy, software industry officials say.
Oil prices above a barrel are in ”nobody’s interest” Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell Group chairperson Philip Watts said on Tuesday ahead of an Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) meeting next week.