Full coverage: South Africa

26.10.2005 Fresh doubts have arisen over the progress of an empowerment charter for the ICT industry, since the empowerment charter steering committee, South Africa appears to have no leader.

20.10.2005 In an event to mark the 60th anniversary of the CSIR, a group of science and technology (S&T) leaders from around the world gathered in Pretoria to find new ways for S&T to play a part in sustainable development.

20.10.2005 Mafutsane Secondary School at Rakoma Village, near Tzaneen, South Africa has received a fully furnished computer lab funded by the Universal Service Agency (USA) in partnership with government communications, the GCIS, and through the lobbying of Bathlabine Rural Development Trust earlier this year.

18.10.2005 The fourth annual mobile learning conference, mLearn 2005, will take place from 25 to 28 October at the BOE Conference Centre in Cape Town.

14.10.2005 The Innovation Hub and Active Touch are hosting an all day e-learning conference at the Innovation Hub in Pretoria, Johannesburg on 27 October 2005.

13.10.2005 Adoption of electronic voting in future elections in South Africa may have been settled as President Olusegun Obasanjo believes that digitalising the ballot system would help minimise short comings associated with past elections.

06.10.2005 The Department of Communications, in partnership with the Presidential National Commission on Information Society and Development Southern African Development Community(SADC), is hosting the Pamoja 2005 SADC Disability Conference at Emperors Palace, Gauteng,Johannesburg on 5 and 6 October 2005.