The Freedom Front Plus is apparently leading a
It’s pretty interesting in two respects. One is that while the result is obviously not realistic it shows that Freedom Front supporters are substantially integrated into the Internet locally and can rally support amongst themselves quite efficiently.
The second is how badly the NNP fared, because its traditional support [...]

Andrew Black once noted that “the NNP doesn’t understand democracy”. I agree… but now I’m wondering whether the same couldn’t also be said for the ANC.
Check out this headline: “I want a 100% vote for the ANC - Mbeki”. 100% of the vote? Surely Mbeki knows that this is impossible. In a democracy, there will [...]

Looks like Google is actually taking the threats to its dominant position seriously. They’ve firstly launcheda play on the word ‘frugal) for online shopping.
Then they took it to another level with Included among the options is a link to Blogger and the ability to Included are Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa and even Yiddish. The ability to [...]

Ouch.(see volume under Share History), as Anglo American sold out their stake. That’s nearly R8 billion worth and the sum of all the trades in listed companies with the next nineteen highest volumes simply can’t compare in scale.
Russian Norilsk takes over the 20% stake and the inflow of funds was reportedly enough to flood the [...]

Here’s something I stumbled across – the a local NGO responsible for monitoring and assessing local government in the Eastern Cape.
The amount of corruption noted is considerable – under the ‘Money Involved’ section located the noted amount of corruption in the Eastern Cape is nearly R7 billion alone ($1 billion+). That’s equivalent to a major [...]

Farrel athas the goods on Uthingo’s recent donation to the ANC, DA, NNP and IFP. Uthingo is responsible for running the national lottery.
To get a look at the major shareholder composition of the company take a look over Again, it looks a bit too much like a conflict of interests as while the company has [...]

NASA managed to break Mach 7 or approximately 2.3km a second with their This has huge and important implications at a time when the Space Shuttle project is now officially nearing its end after never having quite lived up to claims of what it would be capable of doing.
Yet with the scramjet engine, one would [...]

The Independent Democrats appear to have gone into near suicide mode with barely more than two weeks to go before the general elections. Several hundred members, through discontented branches in the Western Cape, The ANC and DA are trying to woo the resignee’s. This follows after several others recently defected to the ANC.
I also don’t [...]

So far the Michelangelo Towers construction project is now at the eleventh floor and will top out at the thirty-fifth, which will make it the new holder of the highest building in the Sandton skyline. It’s also the tallest construction project currently on the go in South Africa from what I gather at R600 million. [...]

…catching you speeding on a Sunday afternoon.

It’s becoming a regular habit for these mobile speeding camera crews to take up residence on one of the several bridges overlooking the M1 highway in Johannesburg between the Killarney shopping mall and the the Corlett Drive offramp/bridge.
The bridges they prefer to hang around on are on the Athol-Oaklands [...]