It is that time of the year again when everybody from politicians to grassroots people will be talking about violence against women! I was chanced to visit one of the victim empowerment centres in Gauteng this week and I was surprised to find blood stained towels left by a survivor of domestic violence who had [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 11, 2011
He was a healthy eight month old baby boy. Making bubble’s with his saliva, making incomprehensible noises like all babies his age usually do. Trying to crawl and pull everything in his vicinity. My nephew Brain Kawonawo, was handsome and super sweet. Then he came down with a fever and that trip to the hospital [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 12, 2011
It was a bright Tuesday I remember, when I switched on the television to watch whatever was showing after I was done with my house chores. And there it was ….breaking news on DW television The Twin Towers had been bombed. As a-wanna-be journalist then, I quickly remembered the bombings of US Embassies in Nairobi [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 22, 2011
Please find here The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2011. This issue is the fifth of an annual series covering 213 countries around the world, and providing a wide range of the statistics on the ICT sector including the economic and social context, the sector structure, sector efficiency and capacity, and sector [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 11, 2011
These are my babies. These are my children. I will take care of them even if their father doesn’t help, my downstairs neighbor declared when I paid them a courtesy call to see her newly born grandchildren. Her daughter was barely 15 when she fell pregnant. I was furious because she had run from school [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 11, 2011
August 9 in South Africa marks a day in 1956 when thousands of women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against the oppressive pass laws in Apartheid South Africa. Their slogan “wathint’ umfazi, wathint’ mbokodo” (when you strike a woman you strike a rock) was one of the acts that led to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 1, 2011
In this interview with ITNewsAfrica, Brett StClair, Head of Mobile, Google South Africa, talks about the evolution of mobile media in Africa and the exciting times ahead for Google on the continent. ITNewsAfrica.com: What are the most recent developments in mobile media on the African continent? Brett StClair: The mobile Internet continues to see [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 21, 2011
FrontlineSMS will develop new tools to enable digital news gathering anywhere there’s a mobile signal, with $250,000 awarded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The support is part of the Knight News Challenge, an annual media innovation contest founded and run by Knight Foundation, and supported this year by Google. With the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 18, 2011
The South African government is making a move to end an eight-year software donation deal with Microsoft, after monetised terms were introduced. The Gauteng Online Schools Project (GOSP) was a beneficiary of the donation programme and will not be able to afford the new terms, according to Dick Rayner, project manager at the Gauteng Department [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 15, 2011
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Agency and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) have joined forces in celebrating NEPAD’s 10th Anniversary. It is within this context of reflecting over the advancement of the African development agenda, that the two institutions are jointly organising an essay competition under the theme; [...]
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