Computer viruses are as dangerous as their health-threatening equivalents and the focus of one of the world’s largest software industries, writes David Shapshak The word “virus” originally comes from Middle English and was used to denote snake poison. Filtered through Latin where it meant “slimy, liquid, poison” it arrived in English to describe the sub- […]
Mbeki’s claim that Aids activists and doctors who adhere to the mainstream position on Aids are racist fits a denialist framework.
Virus protection is now as vital a cog in your computer’s functioning as any other software, writes David Shapshak. A virus can debilitate your machine or, worse, annihilate its data, rendering all the other productivity tools or Internet software pretty useless. Fortunately virus packages themselves have come a long way. The biggest problem with them […]
Thebe Mabanga The Steve Biko Foundation, under the leadership of renowned academic Xolela Mangcu, has used this week to launch a year-long programme to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of the black consciousness icon Steven Bantu Biko. The foundation works with various youth organisations such as Sharpe- ville native and playwright Gama- khulu […]
Thebe Mabanga and Drew Forrest The government’s Growth and Development Summit will be postponed until at least July and possibly until much later, amid signs that big business has grave misgivings about the event. There are also indications that the labour movement and the government see the encounter in a very different light. The Congress […]
Paul Kirk Auditor General Shauket Fakie’s hunt for arms deal leaks has taken a new turn with his investigators seemingly intent on discovering who blew the original whistle to the then Heath special investigating unit. It was to the special investigating unit, at the time headed by Judge Willem Heath, that whistle-blowers first turned when […]
Bongani Majola Plans to merge Technikon Natal and ML Sultan Technikon less than two weeks from now have been thrown into disarray by Technikon Natal’s financial woes. Tension between the two institutions emerged this week as ML Sultan staff and students vowed to take legal action to suspend the merger until pressing financial issues are […]
Mail & Guardian reporter A psychometric study by a United States university has found that Robert Mugabe suffers from a “bureaucratic-compulsive” syndrome and that he is likely to become increasingly dogmatic, inflexible and paranoid. The unit for the study of personality in politics, in the psychology department of St John’s University in Minnesota, based its […]
Drew Forrest and Donwald Pressly President Thabo Mbeki has quietly affirmed the “legitimacy” of the Zimbabwean election, after a week’s silence in which he sought to divert world attention from his judgement on the poll by pressing for a coalition government in Zimbabwe. This week’s Cabinet statement said: “President Mbeki has noted and accepted the […]
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa Born: March 28 1936, Arequipa, Peru. Education: Leoncio Prado military academy, Lima; San Marco University, Lima; Complutense University Madrid (PhD 1959). Married: Julia Urquidi 1955-64; Patricia Llosa 1965- (two sons, Alvaro and Gonzalo; one daughter, Morgana). Career: 1951- journalist and writer; 1990 presidential candidate Peru; 2001- professor of Ibero-American literature […]