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 […]

SOCCER Ntuthuko Maphumulo As the row over the omission of Kaizer Chiefs chair Kaizer Motaung from the three Premier Soccer League (PSL) representatives to the South African Football Association (Safa) executive simmers, further tensions have come to light in the national body. There have been allegations that president Molefi Oliphant and his deputy, Irvin Khoza, […]

China, managed by a Serb, are favourites to qualify for the World Cup finals from Asia’s preliminary groups Amy Lawrence in Doha, Qatar The Arabian gulf: a scrum of Chinese photographers make the room flash like a disco, capturing the moment a Serb, who has been speaking Spanish because his wife lives in Mexico, and […]

The country offers an experience unsullied by commercial overtones and blessed by an absence of tourist coaches, writes Angus Begg Today Africa’s wildlife destination of choice, there was a time, only a few decades ago, when Zambia was best known for not much more than abundant copper deposits, Kenneth Kaunda and, by Southern African standards, […]

Thabo Mohlala Not so long ago, it was a rare sight to see a black person, let alone a woman, driving a train. This was because certain categories of jobs, including train drivers, were reserved for white people. However, as political change gains momentum, some black people have broken job barriers, but the beneficiaries are […]

A 21-year-old rape survivor has decided to pursue her attackers in a civil court action Sizwe samaYende An angry Mpumalanga woman who believes she has been betrayed by the country’s justice system is quietly making history by suing the two men who allegedly raped and impregnated her. The 21-year-old teaching graduate decided to take up […]

Justin Arenstein and Dumisane Lubisi Kruger National Park’s new intelligence unit has exposed and fired a “racist mole” accused of leaking damning evidence of corruption in the game reserve’s Satara Camp. Mariet Bodenstein allegedly stole and leaked a forensic report detailing corruption, mismanagement and theft by three black senior park officials that resulted in losses […]

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. * […]