TRAVELLERS from six African countries are to face tougher rules for entry into Malaysia in a fight against crime, reports said Thursday. The countries have not been named officially, but the New Straits Times said they were believed to be South Africa, Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria. A government official said the move was […]
THE body of a one-month-old baby girl, and a newborn baby, were found abandoned in the Pretoria area on Wednesday, police reported. Neither baby has been identified. The body was discovered by a passer-by in a refuse bag left beside the Ben Schoeman highway south of Pretoria. Inspector Percy Morokane said the baby had sustained […]
Promising Eastern and African culture combining in a mix of art, fashion and lifestyle, <i>ZuluSushi</i> has a short run at the new Millennium II gallery, writes Kathryn Smith
Six stages operated most of the day and night to accommodate bands and musicians from many genres — rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz, folk, blues, punk, breakbeat, jungle and drum’n’bass, to name a few, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
Tricky has moved on from dark paranoia to wised-up positivity, writes Dave Simpson.
By comparison with that other recent historical (melo)drama <i>Thirteen Days</i> is scrupulously accurate and commendably intelligent, conveying very well the almost claustrophobic urgency of the situation, writes Shaun de Waal.
We should no longer refer to First and Third Worlds, but to regions that are hardwired to information flows, writes Dwayne Winseck New technology and patterns of investments shaping their deployment helped redraw the lines of world communication in the last decade of the 20th century. A highlight was, of course, the growth of the […]
CRICKET Peter Robinson Along with soaring sales of pool chemicals and taxi blockades (although this last tends to be an event for all seasons), one of the rites of the South African spring is to watch the national cricket selectors trip over their own feet as they stride purposefully towards the new summer. Two years […]
analysis Neeran Naidoo The impact of telecommunications and information and communication technologies (ICT) on economies, countries and societies is speculative in nature. Much of the current analysis is pinned on case studies. There is little evidence from which to predict the outcome of the trend towards knowledge economies apart from the fact that we need […]
channel vision Robert Kirby Speaking on last Sunday’s Carte Blanche, visiting BBC interviewer Tim Sebastian recalled a comment once made to him by Northern Ireland mandarin Gerry Adams. “How long have you been in Northern Ireland?” asked Adams, after being interviewed by Sebastian. “Since this morning,” said Sebastian. “It shows,” said Adams. Last week’s series […]