“The future is new media,” Rebecca Wanjiku asserts without the briefest hesitation, as if it wasn't a controversial issue. For a new media writer who realises that many people she encounters “think I'm not a real journalist”, the blogger and Nairobi correspondent for IDG News Service is remarkably self-assured.
South Africans should brace themselves for what could be the biggest satellite launch across the African continent. This is according to Dr Andile Ngcaba, the Executive Chairman of Dimension Data SA, who regards the project as his pride and joy.
“Science is ayoba,” said the Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor at the launch of National Science Week (NSW) at the University of Fort Hare in Alice last week.
Nothing is as it was. Your speakers are invisible: a coating on the wall. Your shirt can change colour and cannot be stained. Your windscreen cleans itself.
Re: a new name for Grahamstown, there is one undoubtedly incorruptible, efficient and impartial municipal employee we know, the hated but respected traffic officer Bafo. Julia, let's go for KwaBafo!