CAPE TOWN has a transport framework plan, but does it work for the Cape Flats and Southern Peninsula, where daily traffic jams, and peak hour gridlock are compounded by a Metrorail service that is falling apart as we speak? Is getting across the C...
Category: Technology
Hellkom like no SOE ever scorned (Part 2)
My saga of moving my Telkom landline continued from part 1. DAY 28 A bearded Telkom technician arrives with his assistant. They are unable to install the line because my apartment requires a cable to be installed via a conduit which can only happen with the landlords permission. I am inundated by...
Skateboarding transforming the country
RIP Steve Jobs
SOUTH AFRICA'S hard-won democratic freedom would not have been possible without Apple computers — the humble Macintosh gave activists an important edge over the IBM mind-set of the apartheid government and it was the Apple revolution which ushered in an unbelievable period of innovation and...
Controversy over Vuvuzela origin
THE inevitable row over the extremely noisy Vuvuzela has become a favourite topic of conversation at the FIFA World Cup. But the plastic instrument is drowning out another conversation — who exactly invented the Vuvuzela, and why should plastic versions of traditional musical instruments...
End Telkom carrier preselect on Cable
ZA-FREE started out as a simple request to end the R152 surcharge on Internet access. In effect we are asking for the right to use any of the competing DSL and VOICE services available in the country and to stop Telkom's practice of insisting that users pay rental on Voice as well as Data on [&he...