ACCESS to beaches at Scarborough outside Cape Town where the 10000-ton Singapore-registered cargo ship, the Ikan Tanda ran aground on Wednesday, was being controlled by emergency services. The cargo ship was carrying 15 000 tons of potassium nitrate — fertiliser — a hazardous substance which could pose a threat to people and the environment under […]

ONE million British school children will jump up and down simultaneously on Friday in a bid to create an earthquake and enter the record books as the world’s largest scientific experiment. Thousands of schools around Britain have been asked to send children out into the playgrounds at 11 a.m (1000 GMT) to jump up and […]

Johannesburg | Sunday PIONEERING heart surgeon Chris Barnard’s brother will not attend his funeral in Beaufort West on Friday, the Sunday Times newspaper reported. Marius Barnard (73) recalled unhappy childhood memories and said that out of respect for his father’s memory he would not attend the funeral. But Karin Barnard, Chris’s third wife, said there […]

Ngwako Modjadji Richard Chauke wants to study information technology at university after completing matric this year. But it will be a mammoth task to realise his dream because his school has not yet received textbooks and other study materials. With just two months before the start of final exams, Masedi Secondary School in the Northern […]

John Naughton The greatest thinkers are always those who can learn from their mistakes. Take Fred Brooks, the engineer who led development of the operating system for the IBM 360 mainframes in the late Sixties. It was the largest software project undertaken up to that point and, like all such projects, it ran over time […]

SOCCER James Richardson Last week a schoolboy from Naples got called up for Italy’s under-17 national side despite being just 14. Causing a stir was the lad’s name: Maradona. Yup, he’s the son of the world’s greatest player, and his mum has a court certificate to prove it. Diego Jnr’s story begins in September 1986. […]