In a week Apple has managed to do more than the entire music industry in a year. When it launched an online music service that uses its iTunes music management software, eyebrows were raised at what was seen as an attempt to distribute music over the Internet in the face of rampant piracy.
Vietnam has marked the 40th anniversary of the self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc, the monk whose fiery protest came to symbolise the repression of the United States-backed South Vietnamese regime against Buddhism.
The second round of wage talks between National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and power utility company Eskom is continuing accusations by the union that the company is paying huge bonuses to its bosses while offering peanuts to workers.
Just when you were getting used to the idea that having sex before marriage might not lead to eternal damnation; and just when you’ve started thinking that even should you fall for a person with a set of genitals not entirely different to your own, you might, actually, still be, (sort of), okay — now it’s time to get ready for the next insurrection on the frontiers of the sexual revolution.
The United States’s Central Intelligence Agency’s, Director George Tenet warned last fall that if the United States attacked Iraq, President Saddam Hussein might hand off his forbidden weapons to Islamic terrorists for a counterattack.
The Scorpions special investigating unit has yet to complete its probe into certain aspects of South Africa’s multi-billion rand arms deal, National Directorate of Public Prosecutions representative Sipho Ngwema said on Wednesday.
The Department of Trade and Industry has acknowledged that one of the main areas of contention around the new Liquor Bill is the proposed three-tier system aimed at reducing cross cutting interests in the manufacture, distribution and retail legs of the multi-billion rand South African liquor industry.
The University of Fort Hare disassociated itself on Tuesday from apparently racist remarks made at the university’s graduation ceremony at the weekend by imbongi (praise-singer) Jongela Nojozi.
At least 14 people were reported dead in Chechnya last Wednesday when a second suicide bombing narrowly failed to kill the Moscow-backed head of the local administration. The bombing came as Colin Powell, the United States Secretary of State, held talks with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, in Moscow on Iraq and international terrorism, and […]
If Chaza Makiduki is lucky, one day he might forget how he was orphaned. ”I am alone, all my family was killed. I don’t know where we are going, can you help me?”