Bruce Cohen WEB FEET Aliweb’s the key The World Wide Web (WWW) browsers Netscape and Mosaic=20 are the virtual keys to the virtual world — but they=20 only unlock the door to cyberspace. Once you’re in,=20 where do you go? What makes the Internet truly=20 accessible are the search engines that have been=20 established around […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift PERHAPS the terminally cynical would regard it as a=20 case of putting your marketing money where the mouth of=20 the consumer of the future is, but the R5-million=20 Bakers have put into mini-cricket is just the impetus=20 cricket development needs. The innovation of mini-cricket among the waist-high=20 members of this country’s community […]

Clive Simpkins The communications, marketing and health sectors of=20 countries around the world, particularly in Africa, are=20 failing the most critical test of their expertise. Not=20 simply because it’s a complex one, but because it’s an=20 unpopular one and affects “other people”. That problem=20 is Aids awareness. Latest World Health Organisation statistics indicate=20 that sub-Saharan […]

Zimbabwe is considering boycotts against the Pretoria=20 regime again — though for different reasons this time.=20 Iden Wetherell reports from Harare Should Zimbabwe impose sanctions on South Africa? More=20 than a year after democratic elections in the republic,=20 it may seem a strange suggestion — but Zimbabwean=20 manufacturers, expressing growing resentment that terms=20 of trade […]

Simon Segal COMPARED to our survey at the beginning of the year,=20 South Africa’s major economic forecasters have slightly=20 scaled down their economic growth forecasts.=20 On average, the 10 forecasting units now expect gross=20 domestic product (GDP) to grow 2,9 percent this year=20 and 3,3 percent next year. GDP estimates at the=20 beginning of the […]

Meshack Mabogoane reports on the saga that has been=20 played out at National Sorghum Breweries National Sorghum Breweries (NSB) has teamed up with=20 Indian brewing giant, United Brewery International=20 The deal means NSB will now produce the Indian brewer’s=20 Kingfisher Lager at Vivo’s brewery. The joint venture marks the most extensive Indian=20 investment in South […]

Dan Mofokeng, Gauteng Minister for Local Government and=20 Housing, in the Mark Gevisser Profile One of Dan Mofokeng’s colleagues, who clearly has other=20 things on his mind at the moment, describes the Gauteng=20 Minister for Local Government and Housing as the prop- forward of the ANC team in the province: “He is not the=20 most […]

There has been an outcry over the payment of=20 traditional leaders, but there are sound reasons behind=20 the proposals, writes Ann Eveleth BEHIND the draft Remuneration of Traditional Leaders=20 Bill approved by Cabinet last week and President Nelson=20 Mandela’s long-term proposal to provide chiefs with=20 parliamentary perks lies a comprehensive strategy to=20 turn traditional leaders […]

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Coenraad Visser IT was only with her last two encores, a hilarious=20 performance of Victor Herbert’s comic Art is Calling=20 for Me and a sweetly introspective rendition of a Maori=20 traditional song, that Dame Kiri Te Kanawa’s recital=20 before an overjoyed Pretoria audience came to life. Not that there wasn’t much to admire […]