The US and China may be the world’s biggest economic engines, but on this gorgeous map of the world’s flight paths, Europe glows brighter than either one. The map, designed by a young Canadian GIS (geographic information systems) consultant named Michael Markieta, traces some 60 000 routes on major and regional airlines around the globe.
Media on Mandela watch warned over unlicensed equipment
International journalists stationed outside the Pretoria hospital where former president Nelson Mandela is believed to be receiving treatment were warned about their equipment on Wednesday. “… Some broadcasters had some equipment which is not licensed,” said Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) spokesman Jubie Matlou. Broadcasting equipment brought into the country had to
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Did Ed Snowden get help?
Ed Snowden, NSA leaker. Honest man. Doing what was right. Bravo. That still doesn’t preclude the possibility that, unknown to him, he was managed by people to put him the right place to expose NSA secrets. Snowden’s exposure of NSA was a righteous act, because that agency is a RICO criminal. But that doesn’t mean
Pretoria High Court to rule on name-change appeal today
The High Court in Pretoria will rule on Thursday in an application for leave to appeal against an interdict preventing the removal of old Pretoria street names. Granting the interdict to lobby group AfriForum on April 19, Judge Bill Prinsloo ordered the Tshwane metro to stop removing old street names pending the conclusion of an
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Ed Snowden: How the spy story of our age leaked out
As he pulled a small black suitcase and carried a selection of laptop bags over his shoulders, no one would have paid much attention to Ed Snowden as he arrived at Hong Kong International Airport. But Snowden was not your average tourist or businessman. In all, he was carrying four computers that enabled him to
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300 Burn tyres and rubbish in Durban
About 200 people were protesting on Umgeni and Alpine Roads in Durban on Thursday morning, eThekwini metro police said. The protesters were burning rubbish and tyres, spokesperson Eugene Msomi said. “The roads have been closed as we are waiting for the fire department,” he said. Msomi said it was believed the people were protesting over
Ed Snowden: I have more
US whistleblower Edward Snowden yesterday vowed to stay in Hong Kong to fight any extradition bid, and promised new revelations about US surveillance targets, the South China Morning Post reported. “I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American,” he told the Hong Kong newspaper in an interview. In a teaser posted online before it publishes
Paroled Waterkloof 2 ordered back to prison
Two of the so-called “Waterkloof Four” who were released from prison under correctional supervision 18 months ago have been ordered back to prison, Beeld reported on Thursday. Three judges in the High Court in Pretoria ordered Reinach Tiedt and Gert van Schalkwyk — who have each served just under three-and-a-half years in jail — to
Peaceful role for drones?
Unmanned drones, instead of being harbingers of death, should become a vital technological tool in the conservation fight and in delivering vital goods to remote areas, the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh heard Wednesday. Biologist and science-fiction fan Lian Pin Koh told the conference about his fleet of environmental drones which have been used to monitor
Black taxi driver gets 105 years for robbery, assault, multiple rapes
A Braamfischerville taxi driver has been sentenced to three life terms and another 30 years for robbery, assault, and raping several women, The Star newspaper reported on Thursday. Vuledzani Ramulifho lured women into his taxi in Roodepoort, west of Johannesburg, by pretending he would take them home. He then pepper-sprayed their faces, robbed them, and
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International journalists warned about equipment outside Mandela hospital
International journalists stationed outside the Pretoria hospital where former president Nelson Mandela is believed to be receiving treatment were warned about their equipment on Wednesday. “… Some broadcasters had some equipment which is not licensed,” said Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) spokesman Jubie Matlou. Broadcasting equipment brought into the country had to be approved
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White guilt, Coloured faith
by Dan Roodt What was that T-shirt that got SAB Miller so hot under the collar? “Black labour, white guilt.” Now, even that sounds politically correct, but still the world’s second biggest beer company felt strongly enough to sue the T-shirt maker right up to the Constitutional Court. Hence my title, by way of response
Mandela ‘responding to treatment’: Zuma
Former president Nelson Mandela is responding well to the treatment he is receiving, President Jacob Zuma told MPs on Wednesday. “Madiba is responding better to treatment from this morning,” he said, opening debate in the National Assembly on the presidency’s budget vote. Zuma said government appreciated the messages of support for Mandela that were coming
South African army and Air Force placed on alert over Mandela
The Johannesburg newspaper Beeld reported that the South African National Defence Force had been placed on 24-hour standby and the Air Force’s flight crews warned to keep their cell phones with them at all times while the whole country was holding its breath over former president. Nelson Mandela. Soldiers were already warned about ten days
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