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  • SA needs to invest R1-trillion in energy
    By George Serradinho on September 3, 2008 | No Comments  Comments
    (Article by Anél Powell at www.iol.co.za) It will take an investment of at least R1-trillion to prevent South Africa from becoming an energy-scarce country, says public enterprises minister Alec Erwin. And the wholesale price of energy is expected to double in the next two...
  • Paralympic shambles fury
    By George Serradinho on September 3, 2008 | No Comments  Comments
    (Article by Kevin McCallum at www.iol.co.za) Disabled, disgusted and disaffected. South Africa’s Paralympic athletes have lashed out at the team’s administration after arriving in Beijing to find no training kit, no equipment and the “ugliest outfit ever se...
  • Why Boks got it right, finally
    By George Serradinho on September 2, 2008 | 1 Comment1 Comment  Comments
    By Ashfak Mohamed (Article found at www.iol.co.za) It was a delight to see the Springboks finally execute coach Peter de Villiers’s game plan in Saturday’s record-breaking win over the Wallabies. De Villiers’s much-talked-about new game plan calls for playe...
  • Teacher shot as hijackers flee
    By George Serradinho on September 2, 2008 | 1 Comment1 Comment  Comments
    (Article from www.iol.co.za) A Nongoma high school teacher was shot dead, allegedly by hijackers in northern KwaZulu-Natal, police said on Tuesday. The teacher was a passenger in a car when the incident took place on Monday afternoon, about a kilometre from the Mbombo High S...
  • Digital TV switch-on
    By George Serradinho on August 12, 2008 | No Comments  Comments
    Digital TV switch-on in sight - but service is not yet ready THE department of communications has set the date for the digital switch-on of public broadcast television for November 1 this year. This does not mean, however, that ordinary people, especially the poor, will be ...

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