New technology may signal the end of computer screens as we know them, writes David Shapshak When Apple boss Steve Jobs introduced the new iMac, which has a built-on flat panel monitor, he used an interesting phrase: “The death of the CRT.” The CRT, or cathode ray tube, is the technology that has powered our […]
Adventure walk. The Great Autumn Adventure Walk will take place at the Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden in Poortview, Roodepoort, on May 4 at 8am. Tickets cost R20 for adults and R10 for pensioners and students. Tel: (011) 958 1750 or e-mail: [email protected]. Autumn carnival. A carnival to raise funds for the establishment of a trauma […]
Dr Frank Vreede, a molecular genetics expert, is now in Europe. He is specialising in controlling gene expression by manipulating animal responses to vaccination to optimise immunity. Dr Mandy Bastos, a molecular epidemiologist, specialising in foot and mouth disease. She had played a large part for tracing the origin of the disease. Dr Kelly Brayton, […]
A MANHUNT is underway in sugar cane fields near the Mtunzini toll plaza along the N2 highway in KwaZulu-Natal for a gang of robbers who attacked and robbed a security guard vehicle on Friday morning, police said.
HEAVILY armed policemen guarded the Randburg Regional Court on Friday for the appearance of a former Cuban intelligence officer, 43-year-old Nelson Pablo Yester-Garrido, who was arrested on April 23 in Johannesburg.
THE dissected and preserved remains of the so-called ”Hottentot Venus” arrived in South Africa from France early Friday, nearly 200 years after the African woman was first put on display in Europe as a sexual freak.
AT least 65 Maoist rebels were killed in clashes with security personnel in two western districts on Thursday, said Nepal’s minister of state for home Devendra Raj Kandel.
THREE taxi bosses who master-minded a spate of attacks on Golden Arrow buses were sentenced to three terms of life imprisonment each in the Cape High Court, SABC television news reported on Thursday.
FIVE-key players in the South African national under-23 team were left behind due to club commitments when their compatriots jetted off to France on Wednesday night for a three-week international tournament.
THE Appeal Court in Bloemfontein has reserved judgement in the case of Siphiwe Bethuel Lombo, who is suing the ANC for R6-million, SABC radio reported on Friday.