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Could the browser wars of the late 1990s web be upon us again? Then it was Netscape versus Internet Explorer, but now with the launch of Chrome it’s more than just two browsers pitted against each other. Google’s new entry in Chrome is certain to raise the temperature again. Internet Explorer has enjoyed dominance for […]

Rugby Racism Spat May Cause Soweto Club to Leave Main Union By Vernon Wessels Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) — The Soweto Rugby Club, which started Johannesburg’s first senior black rugby team, threatened to quit the main provincial union, saying its claims of racist abuse weren’t dealt with. The union denied the allegation. The spat is the […]

Submitted by Marius Redelinghuys During the first session of the South African Association of Political Studies annual conference at Kopanong Hotel and Conference Centre, Dr Sally Matthews (Rhodes University) touched on the subject of Reconciliation and the Acknowledgement of White Privilege in South Africa: A Discussion of the Home for All Campaign. She sought to […]

Who? This must be some mistake? Man City, one of the big boys now? What the … ? Stealing Robinho from the clutches of Cunning Kenyon? Scaring Man United into action over Berbatov? Talking of winning the Champions League next season? What is going on here? City is supposed to be the ugly sister; the […]

A quick mention this so you can be one of the first to dive in and test drive Google’s latest release on their ever growing list of wares and services. The new browser by Google called Chrome was officially announced on Tuesday, September 2 2008. Featuring some really useful and slightly different ways of operating. […]

Newcastle United were supposed to have parted company with Kevin Keegan if press reports confirming his departure yesterday were to be believed. They suggested that after showdown talks with owner Mike Ashley the manager was shown the door. Needless to say this occasioned a Geordie backlash with fans protesting at St James Park earlier today. […]

Inspired by Rudoph Van Den Burg’s riff on Jeremy Clarkson’s TopGear Cool Wall I thought a Cool Wall for the South African telecommunications and Internet community might be fun to do. For those who haven’t seen it, the TopGear Cool Wall ranks automobile coolness on a scale ranging from SubZero to Cool to UnCool to […]

Springbok rugby coach Peter De Villiers seems to be on a hiding to nothing. When his charges taste defeat – which has unfortunately happened rather regularly these past few weeks – he is roundly written off as incompetent and out of his depth by certain elements in the media. When they do manage to put […]

Abu Dhabi United Group for Development and Investment, having completed their acquisition of Manchester City yesterday, moved immediately to upstage City’s local rivals Manchester United by bidding in excess of 30m UKP for Tottenham striker Dimitar Berbatov. By the time you read this article you will know whether City or United (more likely) have sealed […]

A notable feature of football support in most of the world is how teams are supported mostly according to locale and region. Indeed in some parts of the world, the Catalunyan capital of Barcelona being the most obvious example, the local team is an intrinsic part of local identity. It embodies all that the people […]

After the Springboks’ overwhelming 53-8 victory over the Wallabies, the question must be asked: Why did it take so long? Why did they wait till their last match in the Tri-Nations competition to dish up such outstanding rugby and inflict the biggest losing margin to date on the Wallabies? And how was such a sudden […]

Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has written a very provocative article in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy. In his article the professor claims that the biblical Moses was high on drugs when he sat on top of Mount Sinai and received the Ten Commandments “from […]