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/ 25 November 2005
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>The police forensic laboratory in Pretoria that is testing DNA samples obtained from the complainant in the rape claim against African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma is being heavily guarded to ensure that crucial evidence is not tampered with or the results leaked.
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/ 25 November 2005
South Africa’s low-cost, no-frills airline, kulula.com, wants to cut high Southern African ticket prices by at least 50%, but it is battling to get rights to routes that have restricted flight frequencies and seat capacity. kulula’s executive director, Gidon Novick, says regional routes are controlled by agreements between countries. These generally only allow one airline carrier.
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/ 25 November 2005
The City of Johannesburg is saving millions of rands through the use of its own high-speed wireless telecommunication network, which connects more than 500 municipal buildings. So dramatic are the cost savings that the capital costs of establishing the network have been paid in just three months.
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/ 25 November 2005
On December 12 last year, two days after the end of the Sixteen Days of Activism campaign, an editorial in a weekly South African newspaper posed the question: "So the seventh 16 Days of Activism campaign has come and gone, and what has changed?
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/ 25 November 2005
It may never have been his intention, but Sizwe Nxasana, the incoming CEO of First Rand Retail, could very well be employment equity and black economic empowerment’s knight in shining black armour. Nxasana, better known for his seven-and-a-half-year stint as Telkom’s CEO, says he owes his rise to the measures put in place after 1994 to redress the race-based economic divide.
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/ 25 November 2005
There is a revolution spreading countrywide. It is happening in towns and cities as disparate as Knysna and Johannesburg, in big places like Durban, Cape Town and Tshwane, and small ones like Stellenbosch. At least 34 other muncipalities are also in on the game, racing to set up their own telecommunication networks.
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/ 25 November 2005
"To Marilyn, I hope this helps keep you on time. All my love, Joe." That is the inscription inside a compact topped with a little watch that was given to legendary actress Marilyn Monroe by her second husband, Joe DiMaggio — one of hundreds of pieces of Marilyn memorabilia on show for the first time in the world aboard the floating museum <i>Queen Mary</i> in Long Beach, California.
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/ 25 November 2005
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma is determined to fight on, despite agreeing to the issuing of a public ANC statement that projected his cause as a lost one. Zuma’s aides insist the statement issued by the ANC after its national executive committee (NEC) meeting last weekend was a "public relations exercise" to project the image of a unified movement.
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/ 25 November 2005
Depriving young children of cuddles and attention subtly changes how their brains develop and in later life can leave them anxious and poor at forming relationships, according to a study published recently. Love and affection from parents and carers are vital to developing brain pathways associated with handling stress and forming social bonds, the researchers found.
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/ 25 November 2005
”Kibaki out! Kibaki out!” was the cry on the streets of Kenya as thousands of people celebrated the defeat of a draft Constitution its opponents had branded a “recipe for dictatorship”. A mere three years ago, the same Kenyans, had massed to support Mwai Kibaki with the mantra of ”Kibaki tosha [forward]!”