Glenda Daniels Communists and trade unionists are ambivalent about the possible tie-up between the New National Party and the African National Congress, endorsing it as a strategic compromise but also seeing it a potential a boost for ANC rightwingers. A Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) statement this week attacked the NNP as “a […]

South Africa is hosting the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union exhibition and forum event for the second time Jubie Matlou More than 200 companies from 40 countries will display the latest information and communication tech-nology equipment at Gallagher Estate next week. In addition, 200 speakers have been lined up to deliver papers on a wide […]

Belinda Beresford While the World Trade Organisation prepares itself for a full and frank discussion on costs and access to medicines in Qatar next week, the Democratic Alliance has stepped into the fray by submitting a private member’s Bill to Parliament to allow easier access to anti-retroviral drugs in South Africa. Unveiled yesterday, the Bill […]

An audit this week reveals the gangrene of immorality eating away at Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital, writes Belinda Beresford Vulnerable and in pain they may be, but patients at the world’s largest hospital have no guarantee they will even have sheets to cover themselves when they finally make it past the chaos of admissions into […]

Three directors of the struggling TV station’s holding company are to share R4-million Glenda Daniels and David Macfarlane It will be a grim Christmas for e.tv staffers when, for the third year running, they go off on vacation without a bonus. But the three executive directors of e.tv’s loss-making holding company, Hoskens Consolidated Investments (HCI) […]

The retirement of legendary lock John Eales leaves the captaincy of the Wallabies in George Gregan’s capable hands, writes Jim White George Gregan has just returned from training, hobbling in behind the rest of the Australian rugby union squad as they troop back to their hotel. Strapped to his right ankle is a complicated arrangement […]

BODY LANGUAGE Jon Henderson No one fits the image of the marketable modern sportswoman better than Anna Kournikova. The ubiquitous Russian tennis player has a face that may eventually launch at least as many products as Helen of Troy’s did ships and may even adorn as many front covers as Princess Di’s. But how are […]

Jubie Matlou “The next Bill Gates will come from Africa.” These were the words of former communications minister Jay Naidoo at the opening of the previous International Telecommunication Union event in South Africa Africa Telecom 1998. An initiative SchoolNetAfrica hopes to achieve that goal by connecting thousands of the continent’s schools to the Internet. SchoolNetAfrica’s […]

There were 443 exhibitors from 38 countries, including 18 national pavilions 88 South African companies exhibited Exhibition space was 16 567m2 Other participants: 51 government ministers 181 delegates from administrations 36 directors general 24 ambassadors 183 chief executive officers 1 092 forum participants (including speakers) from 101 countries 295 speakers from 81 countries 251 accredited […]

The software-maker is facing staunch competition as rivals launch their own e-book programs David Shapshak The recent launch of Windows XP has overshadowed the other tussles in the software world. One of these is the fight for “reading” software that will be key to another technology revolution: the e-book. E-books were all the rage last […]