A student’s project has started a revolution in digital distribution Edward Hellmore Shawn Fanning may look like a typical 19- year-old American science student in a T- shirt and a University of Michigan baseball hat, and until last summer – when he unleashed his first ever attempt at writing computer code – he was. But […]
Jane Martinson Julian Robertson, one of the world’s most successful hedge fund managers, last week warned that investor enthusiasm for hi-tech stocks is creating ”a pyramid destined for collapse” as he announced the closure of his Tiger Management investment company. In an emotional letter to his remaining clients last week, Robertson said he could not […]
LIAM Botham, son of former England cricket all-rounder Ian, will be in the English rugby union touring party that will play two tests against the Springboks in June, England coach Clive Woodward said on Thursday. Woodward will name a 36-strong squad in two or three weeks but confirmed that winger Botham, who has already played […]
THE countrywide run-up to Operation Crackdown has seen more than 1500 people arrested in the Eastern Cape. Police say 359 people were arrested for serious crimes, while at least 25 cars and 29 guns were recovered. Dagga with a street value of R305000 was also seized. The arrests and recoveries were made between March 28 […]
Novelist John Irving tells Will Hodgkinson about the hard choices he faced in adapting his epic The Cider House Rules for the screen.
A ROCKFALL has killed three miners working underground at the African Rainbow Minerals gold mine near Welkom in the Free State. Mine spokesman Mike Jooste said on Thursday that the men were killed instantly when the hanging wall above them collapsed due to a seismic tremor measuring 1,6 on the Richter scale. He said their […]
SANTOS held SuperSport United to a 2-2 draw in a thrilling Castle Premier League match at Greenpoint Stadium in Cape Town on Wednesday night. Santos looked better than United all through the match, and it was only SuperSport ‘keeper John Dithebe whose breathtaking saves kept the scored tied. Jean Bang-Penda scored for United in the […]
SOUTH Africa’s 2006 World Cup bid committee are set to make a vital presentation to senior African diplomats in Addis Ababa next week as the bid to host the soccer showcase reaches fever pitch. Danny Jordaan, CEO of the South African bid committee will meet with Salim Ahmed Salim, Organisation of African Unity secretary general, […]
THE Reserve Bank began a two-day monetary policy meeting on Wednesday, with markets expecting it to leave interest rates on hold as lower oil prices point to subsiding domestic inflation pressures. The Bank will make an announcent when its monetary policy committee, which normally meets every six weeks, ends the current meeting early on Thursday […]
CONSERVATION authorities have shot dead three elephant bulls after they were trapped with no food by strongly flowing rivers. The elephants had escaped from the Kruger National Park in the eastern Mpumlanga province and were trapped between two rivers. The animals were killed because there was not enough food in the area where they were […]