Africa: African Libraries in the Digital Age - "Reaching Outside Their Walls"
Source: All Africa
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-06-16 23:34:11 -0700 | technology-news
I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library", mused the Argentine writer Jorge Louis Borges in 1960. Now, fifty years later, most of us are more likely to turn to the Internet than a librarian when seeking information....
South Africa: DA Party On Land Centenary Adds Insult to Injury of the Dispossessed
Source: Africa Headlines
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-06-13 03:24:44 -0700 | technology-news
Cosatu understands why the DA does not mourn the centenary of the Land Act, as it is the main DA funders who stole the land at that point 100 years ago. The DA seeks to add insult to injury by...
Kenya: Public Transport to Offer Free Wi-Fi Courtesy of Safaricom
Source: Africa Headlines
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-06-11 21:21:12 -0700 | technology-news
Safaricom is in the process of installing and providing data services to matatus in Kenya. The public service vehicles will provide free WiFi to commuters through Safaricom WiFi modems installed in the vehicles. So far, more than 20 vehicles plying...
Surf's up! Pod of 40 bottlenose dolphins ride 8ft-high waves along South African coast
Source: Mail Online UK
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-06-11 10:17:42 -0700 | technology-news
11 June 2013 12 shares 1 View comments These acrobatic dolphins prove you don't need a surfboard to ride the waves. The pod of 40 bottlenose dolphins were spotted jumping out of the back of the breaking waves that were...
Save the white lion: Author on a quest to re-wild rare kitties
Source: San Francisco Bay Guardian
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-06-10 15:14:31 -0700 | technology-news
I mean, some people do/would be excited to do so, given the meat-lust stirred up by the recent appearance of lion meat skewers on the menu at a Burlingame restaurant. But not us, not meow, not ever. Let's instead focus...
Kenya: KTB Launches Magical Kenya Tourism APP
Source: Africa Headlines
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-06-10 06:04:54 -0700 | technology-news
Kenya Tourism Board has unveiled its first mobile application aimed at boosting visits to the country, by providing tourists a platform in which they can share experiences from their holidays. The Magical Kenya App is also designed to make the...
Africa: Can Innovation Solve Africa's Problems?
Source: Africa Headlines
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-06-10 02:11:33 -0700 | technology-news
Founders of the Africa Innovation Foundation (AIF), aim to contribute to prosperity in Africa by encouraging and supporting innovation in Africa. "Its the only way to address or gain real contact with the population. If one understands what the population...
Kenya: 32 Kenya Wildlife Service Officers Suspended Over Poaching
Source: Africa Headlines
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-06-10 00:56:19 -0700 | technology-news
At least 32 Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) senior officers have been suspended to make way for investigations into increased poaching activities in their areas, Kenya's The Standard reported Saturday (June 8th). The suspended officers include those in charge of parks...
Google Invests $12 Million in South African Solar Farm
Source: Big News Network
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-06-09 07:58:54 -0700 | technology-news
The Internet giant has made a $12 million USD (103 million Rand) investment in the Jasper Power Project, a 96 megawatt solar photovoltaic plant in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. Upon completion, Jasper will be one of the...
How does world's oldest water taste? 'Terrible.'
Source: Los Angeles Times
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-06-08 08:34:47 -0700 | technology-news
Nearly 1.5 miles beneath Earth's surface in Canada, scientists have found pockets of water that have been isolated from the outside world for more than 1 billion years. The ancient water, trapped in thin fissures in granite-like rock, has been...
Africa: Undernutrition a The Unfinished Agenda
Source: Africa Headlines
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-06-08 02:01:04 -0700 | technology-news
Two days before leaders from across the globe meet in London to share their commitments for radical action at the Nutrition for Growth high level event, The Lancet published a new Series of papers containing the strongest evidence to date...
Airline CEOs want to help you pimp your flight
Source: The Globe & Mail
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-06-07 07:22:27 -0700 | technology-news
Special to The Globe and Mail Published Friday, Jun. 07 2013, 9:41 AM EDT Last updated Friday, Jun. 07 2013, 9:41 AM EDT Remember, before ATMs, when banks closed at 3 p.m. on Friday and if you didn't make it...
M&G Hangout: Oscar Pistorius and the media frenzy
Source: Mail and Guardian
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-06-05 10:28:47 -0700 | technology-news
Our Coverage Oscar Pistorius was back in court this week, albeit for a paltry 17 minutes. And even though the case is not expected to go to trial until 2014, it was enough to ignite a media frenzy. With Sky...
We need state protection, say Marikana witnesses
Source: Mail and Guardian
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-06-03 10:53:44 -0700 | technology-news
Following a string of post-Marikana deaths, witnesses due to testify say they feel unsafe and want to enter the state's witness protection programme. Marikana witnesses to the Farlam Commission of Inquiry say they fear for their lives and need state...
My haven: David Shepherd the wildlife artist and conservationist, 82, in the drawing-room of his ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-31 16:09:17 -0700 | technology-news
My wife Avril and I moved to this beautiful house 13 years ago and we love its sense of history. Just before my 80th birthday we went away for a few days, and while we were away Avril had secretly...
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