South African corpse fails to rise again (Reuters)

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South African police will crack down
hard on anybody throwing old fridges
from high-rise buildings during the New
Year's holiday, they say

South African police will crack down
hard on anybody throwing old fridges
from high-rise buildings during the New
Year's holiday, they say 01/01/2004 07:54 AM
BBC

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South African tycoon sues over flash car
(Reuters)

South African tycoon sues over flash car
(Reuters) 02/01/2005 09:24 PM
Reuters - A top South African businessman and former politician is suing DaimlerChrysler for saying he owns a super-luxury limousine, amid criticism the country's anti-apartheid icons have sold out to make millions.

South African Man Kills Designer for
Criticizing Home (Reuters)

South African Man Kills Designer for
Criticizing Home (Reuters) 06/15/2004 07:04 AM
Reuters - A South African man told a court how he hacked to death his interior designer because she criticized his decor, local newspapers reported on Tuesday.

South African loses rare coin in meter
(Reuters)

South African loses rare coin in meter
(Reuters) 07/21/2004 11:07 AM
Reuters - A South African woman has mistakenly plunked a 100-year-old gold coin worth more than $1,000 into a parking meter while shopping without her glasses, a newspaper has reported.

South African Government Launches
Colorful Condoms (Reuters)

South African Government Launches
Colorful Condoms (Reuters) 06/15/2004 07:04 AM
Reuters - The South African government, criticized for its slow response to the AIDS pandemic, launched a brand of brightly wrapped condoms Monday in a bid to enhance their appeal in the battle against HIV/AIDS.

South African Genealogy Helper

South African Genealogy Helper 11/01/2003 04:14 PM

Tiscali flogs South African ISP

Tiscali flogs South African ISP 08/23/2004 06:18 AM
Concentrating on Europe

South African MPs re-elect Mbeki

South African MPs re-elect Mbeki 04/23/2004 03:03 PM
In a unanimous vote, MPs in Cape Town elect Thabo Mbeki as president for a second five-year term.

SchmartBOARD Signs South African
Distributor

SchmartBOARD Signs South African
Distributor 09/16/2004 03:30 AM
SchmartBOARD, a company who manufacturers a new type of tool to help engineers, students, and hobbyists create electronic circuits, has signed South African distributor K.H. Distributors. [PRWEB Sep 16, 2004]

South Africa: ICANN Gets African Flavour

South Africa: ICANN Gets African Flavour 07/27/2004 05:58 PM
AllAfrica.com Jul 27 2004 8:40PM GMT

South African villages to get digital
cinema network

South African villages to get digital
cinema network 04/05/2005 09:23 PM
Xeni Jardin: Excerpt from Variety article:

The vast majority of South Africa's 40-million people have never been to the cinema, kept away by the legacy of apartheid, poverty and language barriers. But the nation's exhibs are hoping to change that by using the indigenous filmmaking along with digital technology to connect to the missing multitudes (...)

Starting in September, Shout Africa will roll out 20 digital cinemas around the country where facilities are most lacking, to make the movies affordable and accessible. Shout Africa chief executive Lance Samuels says that for local producers, these cinemas will provide another distribution outlet as well as the opportunity to build new audiences.

Locally produced films in indigenous languages and English will be shown alongside foreign features, with subtitles in the vernacular language of the region of the cinema.Besides the usual popcorn and soft drinks, popular traditional township foods such as maize porridge, spicy sausages, samp (hominy), mealies (corn on the cob) and fried chicken will be on sale to help make the d-cinema experience more African.

Samuels says d-cinemas will be located in revamped township community centers to create a quality experience, including comfortable chairs, high quality digital projection and state of the art surround sound. And, hoping to seal the deal, prices will be much lower than at urban multiplexes.

Wonder what kind of gear the company will be installing? Will this be true cinema-grade digital projection, or something cruddier and lower-res (and, hence, more affordable)? Either way, it's fascinating news, and points to one of the greatest promises of this technology. Which hardware manufacturer(s) will be involved?

Here's more info on the "Shout Africa" d-cinema initiative, Link, by way of Sithengi -- a company that promotes the South African television and film industry.

Link to Variety story (paid sub required, but the story seems to be largely cribbed from the Sithengi press release anyway... )

Previously on BB: The Cuban Revolution, and Ireland's movie theaters to convert within a year?

South African Tamils to set up computer
college in Sri Lanka

South African Tamils to set up computer
college in Sri Lanka 05/15/2004 08:19 PM
Sunday Times South Africa May 16 2004 0:23AM GMT

South African telephone monopoly to go
ahead with lay-offs despite court ban
(AFP)

South African telephone monopoly to go
ahead with lay-offs despite court ban
(AFP) 08/16/2004 12:27 PM
AFP - South African fixed line monopoly Telkom vowed to go ahead with plans to cut 4,000 jobs despite a court injunction forcing the state-run enterprise to seek agreement with the unions.

South African lessons: Human Sciences
Research Council (HSRC)

South African lessons: Human Sciences
Research Council (HSRC) 06/05/2005 11:52 PM
One of the most interesting presentations at this fantastic conference was given by Eve Gray, of Eve Gray & Associates. Gray was asked to study the publishing strategy of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in South Africa. This research institution had a traditional strategy of publishing lots of research books, and selling them. Gray convinced them to change their strategy -- to give away all their research books for free online, and offer a high quality print-on-demand service for anyone who wants the paper version. The result: "the sales turnover of the publishing department has risen by 300%." As she concluded her presentation, "giving away books and lead to an increase in our book sales." There's much much more in her interesting analysis. She has generously offered it for downloading. Here's the press release.

Crime spurs South African inventors to
find high-tech solutions

Crime spurs South African inventors to
find high-tech solutions 12/29/2004 06:29 PM
South African inventors are devising ingenious ways of staying ahead of criminals, including a "smart gun" that snaps digital pictures of the intended target and a computer that sends out an alert if stolen.

Robbers Strip Corpse of Jewelry
(Reuters)

Robbers Strip Corpse of Jewelry
(Reuters) 07/13/2004 12:30 PM
Reuters - Thieves dug up a Frenchwoman's grave and stripped her corpse of thousands of euros (dollars) worth of jewelry she had asked to be buried with to avoid arguments between her five children.

Firefighters Rescue Heavyweight Corpse
(Reuters)

Firefighters Rescue Heavyweight Corpse
(Reuters) 09/09/2004 09:16 AM
Reuters - German undertakers struggling to carry a 661-pound corpse from a third floor Hamburg apartment called in the fire brigade for help -- but they couldn't handle the job either and ordered an industrial crane.

Man Exhumes and Eats Grandson's Corpse
(Reuters)

Man Exhumes and Eats Grandson's Corpse
(Reuters) 09/13/2004 09:04 AM
Reuters - Zambian police have arrested a man who exhumed, cooked and ate part of his grandson's corpse, police said Monday.

Gartner: EMEA PC sales rise, but value
fails to follow

Gartner: EMEA PC sales rise, but value
fails to follow 04/15/2004 10:31 AM
Unit shipments of PCs in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region rose almost 17 percent to 14.9 million in the first quarter of 2004, but the dollar value of resulting sales remained flat and related revenue even decreased in local currency terms, according to preliminary figures for the quarter, Gartner Inc. said Thursday.

Woman Lived with Sister's Corpse for
Months (Reuters)

Woman Lived with Sister's Corpse for
Months (Reuters) 02/17/2004 11:51 AM
Reuters - An elderly Irishwoman shared a room with her sister's corpse for up to a year and sometimes slept with it in the same bed, newspapers reported Tuesday.

Corpse with False Passport Stays 16 Days
at Airport (Reuters)

Corpse with False Passport Stays 16 Days
at Airport (Reuters) 04/30/2004 12:14 PM
Reuters - A corpse with a false passport spent 16 days at Cairo airport before Egyptian authorities agreed to release it for burial on Friday, airport sources said.

Jamboweb.com Launches Giving African Web
Users Unprecedented Access To African
Businesses, News, And Events

Jamboweb.com Launches Giving African Web
Users Unprecedented Access To African
Businesses, News, And Events 04/03/2005 05:54 AM
TreeLife Soltutions LLC has launched a website targeted toward Africans and friends of Africa called Jamboweb.com, that will for the first time bring comprehensive access to African focused articles, events, and business and organization ‘yellow-page’ listings into one central online location. [PRWEB Apr 3, 2005]

Whey to go for S.African cheese makers
(Reuters)

Whey to go for S.African cheese makers
(Reuters) 02/05/2005 09:23 PM
Reuters - South Africa is sending black cheese makers to France for a crash-course in roquefort and reblochon to help broaden the appeal of a food once the preserve of the white minority.

Young S.African Men Kill Circumcision
Nurse (Reuters)

Young S.African Men Kill Circumcision
Nurse (Reuters) 01/04/2005 11:19 AM
Reuters - A group of young South African men taking part in coming of age rituals due to include circumcision turned on their male nurse and killed him, an official said Monday.

African Union Says Sudan Launches Air
Attacks (Reuters)

African Union Says Sudan Launches Air
Attacks (Reuters) 12/19/2004 03:35 PM
Reuters - The Sudanese government has failed to comply with a deadline to stop fighting in Darfur, an African Union spokesman said Sunday, describing fresh helicopter strikes against a village in South Darfur state.

Woman Fails in Bid to Run Against
Ex-Husband (Reuters)

Woman Fails in Bid to Run Against
Ex-Husband (Reuters) 06/09/2004 07:25 AM
Reuters - A Texas woman who threatened to run against her ex-husband, U.S. Rep. Charles Gonzalez, after a bitter divorce now says she will not be a candidate.

Nudist Colony Fails to Take Off
(Reuters)

Nudist Colony Fails to Take Off
(Reuters) 08/11/2004 11:38 AM
Reuters - Chinese eager to bare all in public will have to wait to disrobe after local outrage shelved the opening of the country's first nudist colony.

BBC fails in Marley interview request
(Reuters)

BBC fails in Marley interview request
(Reuters) 04/01/2005 09:23 AM
Reuters - The BBC sent an e-mail requesting an interview with reggae star Bob Marley, 24 years after his death.

Balloonist Fails at Pacific Crossing
(Reuters)

Balloonist Fails at Pacific Crossing
(Reuters) 01/27/2004 11:31 AM
Reuters - A bureaucrat turned adventurer failed in an attempt to become the first Japanese to cross the Pacific by hot-air balloon, just hours after beginning his voyage.

Israel Fails in Apparent Bid to Kill
Jihad Chief (Reuters)

Israel Fails in Apparent Bid to Kill
Jihad Chief (Reuters) 05/15/2004 05:51 AM
Reuters - Israeli helicopters hit Islamic Jihad targets in the Gaza Strip Saturday after attacks led by the Palestinian militant group killed 13 soldiers and dealt the Middle East's mightiest army its worst blow in two years.

Japan's ruling party fails to hook
heavyweight (Reuters)

Japan's ruling party fails to hook
heavyweight (Reuters) 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
Reuters - An attempt by Japan's ruling party to put some muscle into an upcoming election campaign has been tossed out of the ring.

Senate Fails to Resurrect Stalled Energy
Bill (Reuters)

Senate Fails to Resurrect Stalled Energy
Bill (Reuters) 04/29/2004 01:40 PM
Reuters - The U.S. Senate failed on Thursday to resurrect stalled energy legislation, with votes falling short to back a doubling in U.S. ethanol use or push for a much broader package of energy reforms.

Rare Copy of Hamlet Fails to Sell at
Auction (Reuters)

Rare Copy of Hamlet Fails to Sell at
Auction (Reuters) 04/15/2004 07:35 AM
Reuters - A rare copy of Shakespeare's Hamlet failed to sell on Wednesday because no one was willing to pay the minimum price set by the seller's estate.

Rumsfeld Apology Fails to Calm Arab
Anger (Reuters)

Rumsfeld Apology Fails to Calm Arab
Anger (Reuters) 05/08/2004 07:52 AM
Reuters - His apology was late and the damage done, said Arab and European commentators on Saturday, reacting to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Jones Fails to Make U.S. Olympic Team in
100 Meters (Reuters)

Jones Fails to Make U.S. Olympic Team in
100 Meters (Reuters) 07/10/2004 10:22 PM
Reuters - Olympic champion Marion Jones has failed to make the 100 meters team for Athens after she could only finish fifth in the U.S. trials final on Saturday.

Thief Takes Sweets After Needle Holdup
Fails (Reuters)

Thief Takes Sweets After Needle Holdup
Fails (Reuters) 06/22/2004 09:15 AM
Reuters - A man who tried to hold up a pharmacy with a needle he said was contaminated with AIDS gave up after the nervous clerk struggled to open the cash register, and he fled with just a chocolate bar, police said.

Blow Drying Excuse Fails to Save
Speeding Driver (Reuters)

Blow Drying Excuse Fails to Save
Speeding Driver (Reuters) 06/16/2004 07:07 AM
Reuters - A New Zealand man caught driving at more than twice the legal speed limit claimed he needed to step on the gas in order to blow dry his car.

Bad days for South Korea's type-B men
(Reuters)

Bad days for South Korea's type-B men
(Reuters) 04/13/2005 10:47 PM
Reuters - Lee Sung-san is a 24-year-old South Korean student looking for love and hoping that the women he is wooing don't ask him for his blood type.

Car Bomb Kills Around 50 South of
Baghdad (Reuters)

Car Bomb Kills Around 50 South of
Baghdad (Reuters) 02/10/2004 06:52 AM
Reuters - About 50 people were killed and dozens wounded when a car bomb ripped through a police station south of Baghdad Tuesday, witnesses and doctors said.
Grok Description matches for South African corpse fails to rise again (Reuters)
GrokA matches for South African corpse fails to rise again (Reuters)

U.S. Army Female Attire

U.S. Army Female Attire 04/03/2005 10:11 PM
U.S. Army Uniforms for Females. While searching for late 50's and early 60's formal wear I came across this gem.

Mourners' Attire Not Quite
Reaganesque... // viewers with
flip-flops, cargo shorts and T-shirts,
their flabby midsections exposed. Some
young women wore ultra-mini skirts and
halter tops

Mourners' Attire Not Quite
Reaganesque... // viewers with
flip-flops, cargo shorts and T-shirts,
their flabby midsections exposed. Some
young women wore ultra-mini skirts and
halter tops 06/13/2004 05:43 AM
dressing too bourgeois .. this snooty piece .. WaPo .. :

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33272-2004Jun10.html
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Software First for African Languages

Software First for African Languages 09/05/2004 07:59 AM
Software First for African Languages
http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=6835&do=gpage

Two years of computer programming will culminate with the launch of the first word processing software to run in Zulu, Sepedi and Afrikaans. Its developers claim that this is the first word processor to be released in African languages, beating a project by Microsoft SA to convert its own software into native languages.

African talks on three conflicts

African talks on three conflicts 07/28/2004 10:08 PM
The UN secretary general and 11 African heads of state are due at talks to try to end three African conflicts.

ICANN gets African flavour

ICANN gets African flavour 07/27/2004 12:33 PM
SABC Jul 27 2004 5:21PM GMT

African Hats and Hair

African Hats and Hair 10/30/2003 01:42 PM
Hats Off! A Salute to African Headwear. 'Many African cultures throughout the continent have long considered the head the center of one's being--a source of individual and collective identity, power, intelligence and ability. Adorning the head as part of everyday attire or as a statement, therefore, is especially significant. '
Related :- African Loxo: photos of hairstyles from the Fifties (in French); mathematical patterns in African American hairstyles.

African Journals Online

African Journals Online 07/16/2004 07:07 AM
African Journals Online
http://www.ajol.info/

African Journals Online is a portal for "African-­published journals in agricultural sciences, science and technology, health and social sciences." Abstracts are provided for the journals, and many also contain links to sites with fulltext articles. Reprints can be ordered for those articles that are not available in fulltext online. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

Information on African Journals

Information on African Journals 07/07/2004 09:32 PM
African Journals Online has information about journals available from all over Africa, as well as information on the contents of those journals. It's available at http://www.ajol.info/ . The front page...

S African parties end campaigns

S African parties end campaigns 04/12/2004 11:18 AM
Special voting begins for some 93,000 people who are unable to get to polling stations on Wednesday.

The Making of an African Petrostate

The Making of an African Petrostate 02/18/2004 07:55 AM
Chad, among the poorest countries in the world, is now Africa's newest petrostate.

African babershop signs

African babershop signs 04/16/2005 09:52 AM
Cory Doctorow: Wonderful galleries of hand-painted barber signs from Africa, sorted by nation. Link (Thanks, Wagner!)

African-American == Black?

African-American == Black? 01/23/2004 02:22 PM
African-American == Black? Several high-school students at a predominantly white (well, predominantly NOT black) Nebraska high school were disciplined for a campaign to get 16-year-old student Trevor Richards awarded the school's annual "Distinguished African-American Student" award. Richards is from South Africa, now lives in America (not sure if he's a citizen, the CNN story isn't clear), but here's the catch: he's white.

African Online Digital Library

African Online Digital Library 06/28/2004 05:18 AM
African Online Digital Library
http://www.africandl.org/

MATRIX, working in cooperation with the African Studies Center at MSU, and in partnership with premiere research institutions in Africa, is pioneering the African Online Digital Library. The goal of this fully accessible online digital repository is to adopt the emerging best practices of the American digital library community and apply them in an African context. AODL benefits a wide variety of scholars, students, and institutions by producing multilingual, multimedia materials for both scholarly research and public viewing audiences. AODL serves scholars and students conducting research and teaching about West and South Africa as well as teachers and students of African languages in both the United States and Africa. It also provides a valuable model for creating and distributing a diverse array of materials in a region with very limited electronic connectivity. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

African Flagship 3G Network For Tunisia

African Flagship 3G Network For Tunisia 06/29/2004 04:24 AM
3G Jun 29 2004 8:06AM GMT

AFFORD - Database of African
Organizations

AFFORD - Database of African
Organizations 09/04/2004 06:23 AM
AFFORD - Database of African Organizations
http://www.afford- uk.org/resources/database/

AFFORD maintains an online Database of UK based African civil society organizations engaged in development activities both in the UK and in Africa. We are also building the contents of the Database to include agencies and organisations whose work is of relevance to UK-based African organisations (for example donors, organisations in Africa, Pan-African institutions). The Database is one stage in a strategic effort to document and assist increased partnerships and linkages between African organisations in the diaspora and civil society organisations in Africa.

Mercenaries 'fuel W African wars'

Mercenaries 'fuel W African wars' 04/12/2005 11:31 PM
Young veterans of West Africa's wars are being recruited to fight in new conflicts in the region, a report says.

Tutu calls for an African pontiff

Tutu calls for an African pontiff 04/04/2005 10:39 AM
South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu expresses the hope that the next Pope will be African.

S.African police net 135 suspects in
raid

S.African police net 135 suspects in
raid 07/28/2004 02:45 PM
Xinhua News Agency Jul 28 2004 6:42PM GMT

Sea surges reach E African coast

Sea surges reach E African coast 12/26/2004 12:50 PM
The surges produced by the earthquake off Indonesia hit east Africa and the islands off its coast.

Celtel predicts African boom (FT.com)

Celtel predicts African boom (FT.com) 09/06/2004 12:36 PM
FT.com - Celtel, a pan-African mobile phone operator with a strong presence in sub-Saharan Africa, has reported a near 50 per cent rise in revenues as it benefits from rising mobile phone penetration across the region.

Gaddafi urges African solutions

Gaddafi urges African solutions 05/15/2004 11:04 PM
The Libyan leader tells a regional summit in Mali that outside powers should not intervene in Africa's conflicts.

Al-Qaeda 'seeks African foothold'

Al-Qaeda 'seeks African foothold' 05/11/2004 10:47 AM
The US trains forces in north Africa amid fears terrorists ousted from Afghanistan will seek to establish new bases.

African academics connect up online

African academics connect up online 12/11/2003 02:48 AM
iafrica.com Dec 11 2003 1:53AM ET

11th Pan-African Ornithological Congress

11th Pan-African Ornithological Congress 12/10/2003 05:47 AM
NetLib Dec 10 2003 5:11AM ET

Scale of African slavery revealed

Scale of African slavery revealed 04/23/2004 02:47 AM
Human trafficking is a problem in almost all African countries, says a report by the UN Children's Fund.

Tunisia make African final

Tunisia make African final 02/11/2004 02:53 PM
Tunisia reach the African Cup of Nations final after a penalty shoot-out win over Nigeria.

South African corpse fails to rise again (Reuters)

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