Jack Schofield The Tablet PC was the highlight of the Comdex computer trade show in Las Vegas for the second year running and it could be another year before anyone can buy one. Last year Microsoft chairman Bill Gates showed a “concept” version of the device. This year he showed a range of prototypes from […]

Thebe Mabanga Paris is the world’s sexiest city, depressingly few people worry about catching HIV, and Americans claim to be the most rampant nation. People prefer to have sex on the beach (a possible explanation for the popularity of the cocktail with the same name), the back seat of the car loses out to the […]

Barry Streek The government has scrapped plans to impose a levy on the advertising industry to finance the proposed Media Development and Diversity Agency, which will now be funded by the media industry and government. The print and broadcast media have agreed to provide one-third of the agency’s five-year budget of R256-million R85-million over five […]

Comment Shyaka Kanuma As a foreigner, and one who’s been to a number of places, I will say you’ve got a beautiful country here, folks, and one with many prospects. South Africa continues to get recognition as the destination of choice for the world’s indabas. And tourists continue to show much faith in the country […]

I think I have a solution for our high-in-the-sky American Heroes. Let them bomb everyone in Afghanistan Taliban, Tadjiks, Pashtun, Uzbeks and other factions who might in future treacherously and thanklessly turn against their American liberators. It could financially be very beneficial to the US military-industrial complex and, as an added bonus, it would save […]

But Asmal’s drastic intervention this week in Unisa’s governance crisis has delighted academics at the troubled university David Macfarlane Nearly R200 000 in less than two years: that’s the cash Unisa council chairperson McCaps Motimele has milked from the university in contravention of Unisa policies, says the auditor general. But scarcely anyone on the controversy-ridden […]

Minister of Education Kader Asmal’s dramatic intervention this week in the alarming governance fiasco at South Africa’s largest university, Unisa, has come not a moment too soon. For more than a year the head of Unisa’s council, advocate McCaps Motimele, has been running the university like a tinpot dictator, creating factions and conflict in an […]

Fiona Macleod People who like putting their food outside as well as inside themselves are flocking in droves to the new South African outlets of international cosmetics success The Body Shop. The rate at which the body butters thick creams made with nuts, honey, mangoes, olives, soya or cocoa have been flying off the shelves […]

ANALYSIS Firoz Osman It is becoming more apparent that the war in Afghanistan has nothing to do with terrorism, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban or the World Trade Centre. Realpolitik, the need and greed for oil and gas are, once again, the source of misery and tragedy. This time it is happening in central Asia, […]

A KwaZulu-Natal man is writing to the president asking him to visit and bring hope to Aids sufferers Jaspreet Kindra Arthur Jokweni (20) wants to take President Thabo Mbeki to rural KwaZulu-Natal where HIV/Aids is “killing the community”. He wants to show Mbeki the face of Aids in areas where people have to travel more […]