A professor of microbiology at George Washington University in the US capital said on Monday he lost ”priceless” work on an Aids vaccine when he was mugged at knife-point while attending an Aids conference in South Africa.
In five mind-blowing years, Google has blossomed from a nerdy college experiment to a mainstream sensation so ubiquitous that its goofy name is now synonymous with looking things up.
South Africa’s extreme rightwingers have the potential to take the country to the brink of a race war, but the prospect is unlikely, analysts said in a research paper released on Monday.
Sergeant Suhail Naji is not having a good day. He has got a whistle in his mouth and is blowing on it for all he’s worth, but the yellow and green truck making its way towards him clearly has no intention of stopping.
Just six months ago, using the words ”internet” and ”profitable business” in the same sentence tended to elicit little more than cynical reactions.
Those who still could cheered and danced and grinned yesterday as white helicopters delivered peacekeepers to Liberia, the vanguard of a force which is supposed to end one of Africa’s most savage civil wars.
The "worst excesses" of Nazism and communism? That type of throwaway comparison with apartheid is becoming all too prevalent in a world that is beginning to forget about the true horrors of those systems.
Cartoons, DVD piracy, angry right-wing pixies and the future of the VCR all come under Fraser’s scalpel this week.
Exciting new South African feature films star at the festival, backing 2003’s Standard Bank Young Artist award-winner <b>Dumisani Phakhati’s</b> major retrospective. This is only the third time in the long history of the awards that one has gone to a filmmaker.