Belinda Beresford and David le Page The furore over the collapse of even rudimentary privacy on Microsoft’s Hotmail e-mail service raises concerns that the software giant is more interested in gathering information than in protecting it. Microsoft doesn’t have a worse reputation for neglecting privacy than its competitors. Crackers – hackers who attempt to illegally […]

Barry Streek New Africa Investment Limited (Nail), the black empowerment company, has bought Leadership magazine for an undisclosed amount. The editor and publisher of Leadership, Hugh Murray, says he has “done a deal” and sold the magazine to Nail’s New African Publications (NAP). It will now be owned by NAP Magazines Limited, whose chair will […]

renaissance’ Wole Soyinka Just as in Kosovo, or Rwanda, Algeria, or indeed Angola, there are horrors in today’s arenas of conflict that defy the accommodativeness of the Muse, traditional or contemporary. Sierra Leone has into turned the land of terminal censorship, abrupt and unregulated, where the voices of memory are brutally censored, mindlessly, terminally, not […]

COMRADES cheat Sergio Motsoeneng’s appeal against his three-year ban has been postponed to Friday. The hearing was rescheduled by Gauteng North Athletics to enable its president, Stick Stiglingh, to preside. A ban of ten years was also imposed on Motsoeneng and his brother Sefako by the Comrades Marathon Association after they ran this year’s race […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 6.05pm SOUTH Africa’s exports into Africa now total some R20-billion a year — an expansion of 335% since 1992 when trade sanctions against South Africa were lifted. The report, compiled by research Whitehouse and Associates for South Africa’s export promotion conference (Saitex) to be held in October, shows that most […]

A PAKISTANI customs court Wednesday sentenced a South African woman to three years in jail on heroin smuggling charges, court sources said. Madeleine Smith (25) was arrested on July 29 when 2,7 kilograms of heroin was found in her suitcase at the Karachi airport as she arrived to board a flight for Amsterdam, officials said. […]

SANLAM reported a 37% increase of its headline earnings for the half year to show a R1-billion profit. An additional highlight was the turnaround of Sanlam Health. Sanlam’s first interim results as a listed financial services group announced on Wednesday are in line with their expectations, the company said in a statement. A turnaround in […]

A GATHERING of South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union supporters on Wednesday handed over a memorandum to the director of customs and excise in Cape Town, SABC radio news reported. Sactwu is demanding stricter control over clothing imported through the Cape Town and Durban ports. There have also been accusations of corruption and mismanagement […]

DRAFT legislation which will allow cultural and natural sites in South Africa to be granted World Heritage status is to be tabled in Parliament this week, environment affairs deputy director-general Dr Tanya Abrahamse said on Wednesday. The draft legislation on the The World Heritage Convention Bill, should be tabled in the house in three days. […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki will meet his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe in Pretoria on Thursday, after which he will fly to the Mozambican capital Maputo to meet President Joachim Chissano. The talks with Mugabe will be a follow-up to a meeting in July at the World Economic Forum between Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin and […]