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(Article by Mpume Madlala at www.iol.co.za) Police say they will not be intimidated by controversial statements made by senior taxi officials who threatened to “shoot back” at police who impound their taxis and use force against them. More than 40 taxis from the North and South Beach tax...

(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 to three years, meaning ...

(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 seen” for the Games&#...

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 players to play the situation ...

(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 School in Nongoma, where h...

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 able to watch their free-...

Popular anti-Telkom website gets a new look Hellkom (http://www.hellkom.co.za), the popular anti-Telkom website launched in 2004 by Gregg Stirton, was revamped recently to better serve the local IT community. Hellkom made headlines in 2004 and 2005 when Telkom sued the website for R5 million for ma...