Google has just released another interesting beta product to the Internet at large and which is meant to complement- say hello to
I’m still in the process of assessing it but if you can fulfill the download requirements and are interested you can find it Seefor more details. Also givea whirl if you haven’t already.
Looking at [...]

- Frederic Miller, head of Greenpeace France’s nuclear campaign in response to the announcement by the six members of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER, (being the EU, US, Russia, China, Japan and South Korea) that France will host the experiment to try create the
So there you have it folks. In an era when [...]

While there’s substantial debate over the it was clear that there was an effect. Of course one can’t avoid cynically concluding that this has more to do with politics than economics.
Interestingly though, a lot of areas were bereft of beggars and the unemployed who linger in certain industrial and commercial regions in parts of Greater [...]

Following the efforts of theblog to document all major global landmarks visible viasatellite imagery, Marc has started up a local version called
Obviously the focus is on local landmarks and while Google Maps still has to properly update its records for South Africa (for example half of Cape Town and Jo’burg are still at very low [...]

I’ve stated before that I’ve believed that foreign aid is only really useful when it comes to real crises or exceptional situations – hence why a devastated Northern Sumatra following the Indian Ocean Tsunami last year and a shattered Europe post World War II would count.
Butpoints to an article bywhich in turn suggests an option [...]

Of course, the deeper problem with the DA’s mudslinging is the unsound political judgement it betrays. Yes, we know the DA is a “tough opposition party”. We get it already. I don’t think there’s anyone out there saying “I would vote for the DA, but they just don’t attack the ANC enough.”
The Schabir Shaik trial, [...]

The more I look at the DA’s flimsy “corruption evidence” against Thabo Mbeki, the less there is to see.
The bulk of their case is based on the “encrypted fax” – the same encrypted fax, no less, that was the centrepiece of the Schabir Shaik trial! So let’s get this straight. The “encrypted fax” has been [...]

As strange as it may sound, an activist group in London is calling for a mass boycott of the purchase of all South African goods.
The under its 11-06-05 update, is calling for a mass boycott of all South African goods as an attempt at retaliation for South Africa’s support for Mugabe following Mbeki’s ‘quiet diplomacy’ [...]

I’ve just recently been informed that my application for a temporary lecturing post at a commercially focussed college has succeeded and from mid next month I’ll be lecturing under-graduate accounting to students taking the UNISA year end exams. It’s both exciting and utterly terrifying for its scope, especially as I may be taking several different [...]

Finally! After Joel Schumacher’s absolutely rubbish Batman movies and Tim Burton’s own poor Batman sequel, Time Warner have managed to break their long running duck, spanning over a decade, and produced a super-hero film that is entertaining, has substance and is true enough to the characters’ roots. That’s despite so many fears and complaints of [...]

…moving into full-blown purge mode? The Star seems to think so.