Angolan government forces may have won a crucial victory in Unita’s ‘zone of control’, writes Chris Gordon in Luanda The Angolan government has destroyed Unita’s stronghold in the city of Bailondo two weeks after starting a new and long- awaited military offensive. The Angolan air force unleashed its recently acquired Su-27 planes in a massive […]

Barry Streek The government continues to send mixed messages on its tax policies and approach to NGOs. In the National Council of Provinces last week, Minister of Education Kader Asmal expressed strong support for the role of NGOs. But in a memorandum attached to the National Student Financial Aid Scheme Bill, it emerged that the […]

Securing the World Wide Web is a never- ending battle – and the good guys seem to be losing. David le Page reports Imagine stealing R5 from every credit card holder of a major South African bank. Well, you’re too late. Someone’s already done it, according to an informed source. The tactic was ingenious – […]

While the Internet market grows more nervous, confident young entrepreneurs refuse to cry into their cappuccinos, reports Jay Rayner There were two very different Internet markets in Britain last week, existing a little uneasily side by side. In the first, every thing was gloom and doom. Shares in Freeserve, the United Kingdom’s largest Internet service […]

John Higgins Review of the week Two slightly absurd questions: have you ever had your photo taken? Have you ever photographed someone else? Very likely, your answer is yes: at weddings, on holiday or just with the family; as a child, as a lover, as a friend. Like most successful industries, amateur photography is based […]

Donna Block and Mungo Soggot A number of South Africa’s marginal mines could claw their way back to profitability in the near future as the surging gold price provides a lifeline to the ailing gold industry. Analysts say South Africa’s gold mines – the deepest, oldest and most expensive to operate in the world – […]

Could international aid be keeping Angola’s 25-year civil war going, asks Mercedes Sayagues in Malange Long lines of peasants, trucks loaded with maize bags: the Red Cross food aid distribution in the outskirts of Huambo is well organised. As it was last year. And the year before. As it has been for the past 20 […]

JOHANNESBURG police are looking for a Norwegian businessman who was last seen on Monday when he had breakfast at a hotel near Johannesburg International Airport. Superintendent Chris Wilken on Friday said Kjetil Moe, (65) arrived in South Africa on September 24 on a business trip. He was due to leave on Tuesday from Johannesburg via […]

RHODES University social science student Likhaye Ngqezana, at the tender age of 23, was elected the youngest mayor in Grahamstown’s 180 year history at Monday night’s monthly city council meeting. Ngqezana, who is in his final year of study and has served on the council for only three months, was the sole nominee for mayor. […]