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/ 2 November 2005
Primedia’s Talk Radio 702 has its sights set on Johannesburg’s last available FM signal because it says it suffers from poor audio quality on medium wave. Omar Essack, rival Kagiso Media’s executive director of broadcasting, said Johannesburg’s 92.7 FM signal is "the absolute last" available and "extremely valuable".
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/ 1 November 2005
The body of an employee of the KwaZulu-Natal department of local government, housing and traditional affairs was discovered in his office on Durban’s Victoria Embankment on Tuesday morning, four days after he was reported missing by his family. The department is in a state of shock, said a spokesperson.
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/ 27 October 2005
What awaits young journalism graduates in South Africa and what motivates them to choose this career? Is it money, or is it a genuine passion? Some graduates believe that money is a contributing factor to journalists abandoning their jobs, often for the world of public relations. Others would rather knock on doors till they get a job in journalism.
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/ 24 October 2005
A new black economic empowerment (BEE) share scheme at Nedbank, called Eyethu, will most likely be tested in the Equality Court after a complaint by one of its members, said labour union Solidarity on Sunday. A "white" member of Solidarity was turned away twice from Nedbank last week, the union said.
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/ 12 October 2005
Hackers can bring a cellular network to a standstill by flooding it with SMSs equivalent to spam, say computer researchers in the United States. However, a local mobile messaging expert told the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> that such messages would only congest the network for a "couple of seconds".
"Clean-shaven, straight teeth and a friendly smile … in a word, handsome. After a week of vigorous SMSing and long phone conversations, "handsome" and I decide to meet. Eager to see each other in real life, we meet in a parking lot — and as I walk towards him, my excitement is replaced with anger almost immediately," writes Reesha Chibba.
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/ 14 September 2005
The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) condemned Telkom on Wednesday for asking police to break up a small picket held on Monday outside Telkom’s head office in Pretoria. In a press statement on Thursday, the FXI said: "Telkom’s attempt to stop the picket by calling on the police to intervene was unjust."
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/ 12 September 2005
The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) picketed outside Telkom’s head offices in Pretoria on Monday, accusing the telecommunication giant of ignoring it and its grievances. The FXI says Telkom refused to attend a recent meeting to discuss issues including the poor roll-out of telephone lines in rural and poor areas.
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/ 1 September 2005
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) has not succeeded in negotiations with their staff over a wage dispute. According to a statement on Wednesday, the Commission Staff Association is preparing to poll its membership on whether to strike, following the deadlock in salary negotiations.
The first port of call for South Africa’s beleaguered employees is the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA). But where do those who work for the CCMA turn? The commission faces possible strike action following a deadlock in salary negotiations with its employees’ assocation.
Helen Zille speaks to the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> about perils of floor-crossing and changes to South Africa’s education laws.
Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille says the Democratic Alliance is a small white boys’ club.
"No, I would not," Pick ‘n Pay CEO Sean Summers answered adamantly when asked whether he would have joined recent strike action if he were an average worker in his company. Reesha Chibba spoke to the man who has led his company through two major crises: the poisoning scare in 2003 and this year’s massive, 11-day strike.
The HIV/Aids pandemic, which has affected millions of people in Southern Africa and around the world, often takes a back seat to dramatic news events and political scandals. In South Africa, the recently launched <i>Journ-AIDS</i> aims to assist journalists writing about HIV/Aids.
Opposition leader Tony Leon on Friday suggested that a judicial commission of inquiry be appointed to investigate the allegations published in the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> that Imvume Management — which channelled R11-million in state oil money to the African National Congress before the 2004 election — was effectively a front for the ruling party.
"We were about 150m into the tunnel when a bomb went off in our carriage. I definitely knew a bomb had gone off. There was a lot of soot and dust in the tunnel," says South African Jason Rennie, who was on the London Tube when a bomb exploded in his carriage, one of the four bombs that killed about 50 people in last Thursday’s terror attacks.
"If I happen to be in an accident and I become a vegetable, I would like my partner to have a right to my belongings," says Darren Hayward, a gay South African who has been in a committed relationship for the past six years. Hayward, like other gay and lesbian South Africans, is looking forward to good news from the Constitutional Court later this year regarding same-sex marriages.
The bomb attacks in London caused panic among South Africans on Thursday, resulting in stiff congestion on major phone routes between South Africa and London. Telkom said its network successfully routed 500Â 000 calls to the United Kingdom between noon and 2pm on Thursday, reported ITWeb on Friday.