Now let me start by saying that I don’t really believe JP Pietersen and Bryan Habana are done as wingers for the Bokke. But if the experiments with them at outside centre prove successful, and there is no reason to believe they won’t, we could get to the international part of the season with a […]
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A man who is not a man
By Fundile Majola There was a mixture of excitement and anxiety in the Port Elizabeth air on that sunny Monday morning of November 24. I was ready for my last matric examination paper, Geography. I was also ready to be made and declared a man – the initiation process was to start that evening. I […]
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Baby steps or big bang in the cloud?
Hybrid cloud/on-site PBX deployments best current assurance of quality, reliability On the rise Hosted or cloud-based telephony is undoubtedly on the rise. The rise is not yet stratospheric, but the fundamentals are sound. Adoption is top-down: At the high end of the converged (Internet Protocol or IP-based) PBX market, hosted telephony has made bigger strides […]
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How good is Sagan and how far can he go?
If you are like me, every year you can’t wait for the cycling season to start at the Tour Down Under. January 17 2010 was no different. I was up in the early hours of the morning to watch the traditional Cancer Council criterium before the TDU started. Lance Armstrong had returned to racing the […]
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South African enough to take to lunch?
By Duncan Scott What’s in a nationality? In a country in which political rhetoric and common sentiment towards foreign nationals is often belligerent, quite a lot. A South African – let’s call him K – recently put it to me, “When it comes to nationality, like in every other civilised country in the world, there […]
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A middling start for Super 15
It’s a new season and already penalties are being counted. Referees issued 59 penalties across the seven games in Super Rugby’s first week of the season and no team secured the four-try bonus point either. It’s too early in the season for prophets of doom to be taken too seriously, but the sceptics are out there…and they are waiting. […]
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Enough about race, let’s talk about class
If truth be told, black people are not interested in the confessions of white people who suffer with guilt from the sins of colonialism and apartheid. In the 21st century where both colonialism and apartheid have – depending on how you look at things – been defeated, we don’t want to know of people who […]
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Neutrinos faster than the speed of light – who cares?
The scientific community is at odds with itself over the question of whether neutrinos are in fact faster than the speed of light. Some annoyed scientists are even suggesting that the recent experiment between a particle accelerator at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Switzerland and the Gran Sasso underground laboratory in Italy, […]
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9 nifty steps to unified communications
By its very composite nature, unified communications (UC) application platforms can be modular and exhibit evolutionary growth. Perhaps you’re already using a form of it, rudimentary or at least potentially quite advanced. Or maybe you’re not sure where to start. Chances are you could use some help with realising the many benefits open to you […]
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Budgeting for HIV: Let’s not forget what hangs in the balance
This past week has definitely had us pulling out our calculators and knotting our eyebrows as we tried to scrutinise the numbers, analyse the figures, and work out what the increases and decreases (and haircuts) of the 2012 national budget will mean for our own pockets. Ofcourse, I being the medic that I am (and […]
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The innovativeness of (some) art and its social implications
Lately one has read a lot about how Apple became the world’s most valuable company because of its CEO, Steve Jobs’s emphasis on innovative product development, rather than his own business leadership style. (According to those who knew him, including his biographer, he was an uncompromising bully.) It may come as a surprise to some, […]
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Airbrushing the boesman
Just what does a coloured have to do these days — short of knocking out the rest of his teeth or picking up the banjo — to get noticed in South African national debates? One really wishes the government would make up its mind. First they were saying there’s historically been an ‘over-concentration’ of bruin-ous […]