“There is no power crisis, says Mbeki” – iAfrica.com
In tomorrow’s newspaper, Thabo Mbeki will explain why Aeon Flux was an underrated movie that had great artistic merit, why the Atkins diet is legit, and why you really can make money selling Amway products.

More proof that Telkom’s monopoly is getting out of hand, or symbolic of where their true thoughts about the SA consumer are?

As the Kebble scandal progresses the forensic auditors of Randgold are apparently recommending that the management of the company that Kebble plundered sue the original company external auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), for the inappropriate audit opinion they expressed.
PwC expressed an unqualified audit opinion (roughly meaning a clean bill of health) originally on Randgold’s accounts when they actually contained hundreds of millions [...]

You’d think the media would report the same story consistently. Guess again.
Fin24:
South Africa has slipped three places to number 37 in the global IT rankings, but closed the gap to one spot on its closest African rival Tunisia. 

Business Report:
South Africa placed 37th overall, ranking far higher than other countries on the African continent. 

So who’s right?

 
General knowledge time. Is the above a real phenomenon or just someone’s work in Photoshop? If it’s the former, what is it called?

I finally got around to reading the Sowetan interview with Jacob Zuma. It really is a most extraordinary piece of writing, one that I would strongly recommend to anyone with more than a passing interest in South African politics. Some of the highlights:
Zuma the gossip-columnist. Zuma has apparently internalised the old American tradition that, once [...]

Zablogger has penned yet another glib post on speeding:

Durban newspapers are once again full of letters from people complaining about being soft targets for the city police speed enforcement officers. Question – if you’re a soft target why not prevent yourself from being a target at all – just stop speeding?
One wonders what advice Zablogger [...]

The debate continues at Gauteng Blog and Mzansi Afrika.
For the record (and without wanting to completely endorse either side), I think Rethabile misreads the Employment Equity Act. He writes that “equal opportunities [are] actually good, it is progressive, and it falls in line with the general direction of the eleven-year-old South Africa”, and you certainly [...]

South Africa has the goods. It’s extraordinary just how dirty the man was, especially when considering the extent of the praise he was showered with in the immediate aftermath of his death. For the record, I was never on board with the Brett Kebble-hagiography crowd.

As part of a short presentation I jointly have to give on Wednesday night I have to define the concept of IT crime. The more common term is cybercrime but surprisingly I find conflicting or lacking definitions.
The local Electronic Communications and Transactions Act defines it as “unauthorised access to, interception of or interference with data”. A Princeton definition [...]

This has been out for a while but it’s still worthwhile – a sped up video of how the Airbus A380 was built (ADSL connection speeds or higher required).