China on Tuesday rejected a report that hackers controlled by its military had successfully entered a Pentagon network, calling the claim a product of "Cold War" thinking. The Financial Times, citing former and serving U.S. officials, said Chinese People’s Liberation Army hackers broke into a U.S. Defense Department network in June, taking data and prompting
SA submarine sinks NATO
A lone South African submarine left some North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) commanders with red faces yesterday as it "sank" all the ships of the Nato Maritime Group engaged in exercises with the SA Navy off the Cape coast. The S101 – or the SAS Manthatisi – not only evaded detection by a joint Nato
Soweto se naam moet verander
Rwanda wil nie meer SAOG-lid wees
US soldiers not welcome in Africa
More armed US soldiers are not welcome in Africa, said Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota yesterday. Any country that allowed itself to be a base for the US strategic command in Africa (Africom) would have to live with the consequences, Lekota said. Africom’s recent creation has been interpreted as the US suddenly recognising the strategic importance
Chinese military hacked into Pentagon
The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American officials. The Pentagon acknowledged shutting down part of a computer system serving the office of Robert Gates, defence secretary, but declined to say who it believed was behind the attack. Current
India’s holocaust
A controversial new history of the Indian Mutiny, which broke out 150 years ago and is acknowledged to have been the greatest challenge to any European power in the 19th century, claims that the British pursued a murderous decade-long campaign to wipe out millions of people who dared rise up against them. In War of
Gevegte hervat in DRK
‘n Honderd mense het reeds verlede week in verskillende gevegte omgekom. Generaal Laurent Nkunda, magtige plaaslike leier en oud-sielkunde student, is verantwoordelik vir die rebelle. Alhoewel daar geen nuus van die toestand beskikbaar is nie, reken die VN dat 650 000 mense reeds uit hul huise padgegee het uit Noord-Kiwu uit vrees dat hulle ook slagoffers kan word van die konflik.
‘n Honderd mense het reeds verlede week in verskillende gevegte omgekom. Generaal Laurent Nkunda, magtige plaaslike leier en oud-sielkunde student, is verantwoordelik vir die rebelle. Alhoewel daar geen nuus van die toestand beskikbaar is nie, reken die VN dat 650 000 mense reeds uit hul huise padgegee het uit Noord-Kiwu uit vrees dat hulle ook slagoffers kan word van die konflik.
Oud-president se vrou gearresteer
Die eggenote van die eertydse Zambiese president Frederick Chiluba is Maandag in hegtenis geneem nadat sy probeer het om van haar man se gesteelde bates te verkoop. ‘n Paar dae tevore het ‘n hof bevind dat daar nie genoeg getuienis teen Regina Chiluba is om haar van korrupsie aan te kla nie.
Die eggenote van die eertydse Zambiese president Frederick Chiluba is Maandag in hegtenis geneem nadat sy probeer het om van haar man se gesteelde bates te verkoop. ‘n Paar dae tevore het ‘n hof bevind dat daar nie genoeg getuienis teen Regina Chiluba is om haar van korrupsie aan te kla nie.
