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/ 12 February 2001
SOUTH African attitudes to online shopping are maturing, with shoppers more prepared to make online buying part of their lifestyles – but this means retailers will have to better gear themselves up to understand the needs of the online consumer. That’s the word from Paddy Gray, director of PQ Africa’s payment gateway ECnet, who says […]
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/ 12 February 2001
A court recording of former president Nelson Mandela’s last speech before he was sentenced to life imprisonment has been released.
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/ 12 February 2001
SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki says he can see no reason for the rand’s dip to record lows against the US dollar last week. The volatile rand hit a record low of 8.03 against the dollar last Friday, which traders said was mainly on the back of a weaker euro, the currency of South Africa’s […]
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/ 11 February 2001
TWO men shot dead a Golden Arrow bus driver in Lansdowne Road near Khayelitsha on Saturday night, Cape Town police said on Sunday. Superintendent Neville Malila said the men boarded the bus around 8.15pm, shot dead Sebenzile Miyana and then ran away with his cash box. Miyana was shot in the chest and was certified […]
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/ 11 February 2001
EMSIE FERREIRA, Cape Town | Sunday IF you walk far enough up Table Mountain these days you will hear the noise of chainsaws and falling trees and see sweaty yellow-shirted armies toppling the old pines and bluegums that well-meaning settlers planted for shade and wood. Time has shown the trees to be a menace – […]
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/ 11 February 2001
RICH people with a history of mental illness are likelier to commit suicide than their poor counterparts, according to a study published in Saturday’s weekly British Medical Journal (BMJ). Researchers at Denmark’s University of Aarhus, exploring the link between social position and psychiatric disorder, trawled through national health archives from 1982 to 1994. The lower […]
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/ 11 February 2001
KENYAN security forces have seized ivory worth hundreds of thousands of shillings and arrested a senior Pakistani army officer, the state-owned KBC radio reported on Saturday. The radio said that Lieutenant-Colonel Masud Mohamed, a liaison officer attached to the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, was arrested on Thursday at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as […]
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/ 11 February 2001
FANS of the song sharing service Napster logged on by the tens of thousands for a last minute grab at music they fear a federal court may knock offline. Nearly 10_000 users logged on Saturday to just one of Napster’s more than 100 computer servers sharing nearly 2 million free MP3 song files, according to […]
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/ 11 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Saturday PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s government on Friday seized all privately-held foreign currency in commercial bank accounts, mostly to pay the overdue salaries for state officials based abroad, the central bank announced. A brief statement on state television said that both private and corporate foreign currency accounts (FCA) held at commercial banks […]