It will be bloody, but Hewlett-Packard and Compaq were left few options other than a merger and radical surgery Edmond Warner As they strode into work last Tuesday morning, Wall Street’s finest must have believed that at long last they were witnessing the turn in the investment banking cycle. The New York Times was carrying […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Nearly three months after the Mail & Guardian obtained proof that Cromet Molepo, the CEO of Umgeni Water, had illegally tapped the telephones of his employees, an investigation by Pietermaritzburg attorney Julian von Klemperer has corroborated the M&G’s expos. Molepo has now gone into hiding after he resigned on September 3. […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Damelin, one of South Africa’s leading correspondence colleges, is pioneering the installation of a Readwell Project that seeks to improve the reading capabilities of South African learners, including adult learners. Based on the visagraph, an imported computer targeted at the estimated 60% of students aged 10 to 18 who are reported […]

Barry Streek In a move to fight corruption, police officers in South Africa are going to be required to submit an annual signed declaration of their personal financial interests including their ownership of property and shares. “We are doing it because we want to run a very clean service,” Minister of Safety and Security Steve […]

Drew Forrest The government and labour are on the brink of an agreement that would mean the dropping of a state plan to break up and concession a major part of Spoornet’s freight business to private operators. Earlier this week the Department of Labour’s head of restructuring, Leslie Maasdorp, suggested that the listing of SAA […]

a second look Stephen Corry The Mail & Guardian’s article on the Bushmen of Botswana (“Going back to their roots”, August 31) accurately reports that more than 1000 of them were removed from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and put in bleak resettlement camps where social and economic problems are rife in contrast to false […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Xhantilomzi Fishing, a black empowerment fishing company, launched its first vessel, Codesa 1, in August. The word “Xhantilomzi” refers to the main structural pillar of a traditional house, symbolic of a structure in which many participants could find a home. The company is owned by three groups: Rainbow Nation Fishing CC, […]

On the 20th birthday of the PC, the launch of Windows XP could be the end of DOS as we know it, says Jack Schofield At the end of last month the grey skies over Seattle turned blue after a week of rain, and a helicopter took off from the Microsoft campus with briefcases holding […]

A set of readers, written by teachers, will reach about 160 000 learners throughout South Africa Jubie Matlou Road safety awareness is one subject very close to Alice Segola’s heart. This is not surprising because this is a subject that affects many of her pupils at St Ann’s primary school in Atte-ridgeville, outside Pretoria. When […]

Justin Arenstein and Ongeri John The two South African Aids quacks who were booted out of Tanzania last week left behind a string of debts, including a R68 000 telephone bill. Jacques Zigi Visser and Themba Khumalo were deported last Saturday in the wake of mounting controversy about their role in trials of the discredited […]