Julia Beffon A couple of days ago, thinking about writing this article, I hauled out some pictures from the first Johannesburg gay march. The photos show a younger, rain-drenched me tarting a banner for the Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand (Glow) along the streets of Hillbrow. Eleven years down the line I cannot […]

By end of March 2001, Telkom had: * 129 ATM points of presence across the country. * Installed 374 062 Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN) channels providing end-to-end digital connectivity to business. * About 1 196 000km of optical fibre in the network. * Installed 343-million kilometres of transmission circuits with 792 000 ports. * […]

Bongani Majola Vista University continues to appoint senior management personnel despite its imminent dissolution. This is prompting Vista academics to question the institution’s commitment to the National Plan for Higher Education. And Vista unions have formally declared a dispute with the university over the management appointments. Minister of Education Kader Asmal’s national higher education plan […]

Preying on public sentiment is the new line of virus attack Sarah Left It took just two weeks for the inevitable to occur: someone has written an e-mail virus that exploits the World Trade Centre tragedy, disguising itself as a call for peace. Security experts say that distribution of the virus is limited at this […]

I entirely agree with Robert Mattes (September 17) that there is no logic to blaming the United States for the terrorist attack on itself. It is contrived (by long-standing axe-grinders) and disingenuous to do so. The litany of sins usually brought against the US stem from, among others, real and perceived abuses during the Cold […]

Analysis Ian Urbina The United States is about to run into a minefield that could have catastrophic ramifications across the globe. Escalating military threats are increasing regional instability as many populations are growing resentful of US ultimatums. Terrorists have vowed to widen their attacks beyond US territories if a war ensues. It may be time […]

Americans are a great people, but do they have the vision to lead the world? asks Drew Forrest “The tempest bursting from the waste of time On the world’s fairest hope linked to man’s foulest crime” The lines, by American writer Herman Melville, capture the complex nature of the United States far more accurately than […]

Minister of Land Affairs Thoko Didiza is a charming person and no fool. But even she must concede the deeply worrying shortcomings of the government’s land reform programme. South Africa is not Zimbabwe and there is no real possibility of violent, large-scale, land-related upheavals in this country. But the Bredell invasion and sporadic illegal land […]

Telkom aims to provide enterprises with a e-business platform for the 21st centurty Mail & Guardian reporter Here is a way of doing business that goes under many names: “i-commerce”, “e-business”, “e-commerce” and “e-tailing”, to name but a few. It conjures up images of purchasing flowers for Mother’s Day with a few clicks and keystrokes […]

Mail &Guardian reporter Telkom has co- engineered the SAP/ Commerce One Platform, unique in South Africa and one of just six in the world. The system allows com- panies to set up and run online trading. Telkom is a Cisco Gold Partner and has also achieved the Cisco powered network status for virtual private data […]