Monday, November 22, 2004
Durban Institute of Technology
Hello, good morning and welcome to Cybersurf – your weekly window on the web, and I am your very own Cyberhost – Steven Lang.
Over the past six weeks, the Schabir Shaik trial has always been near the top of the news agenda. SABCnews.com has even created a special feature section devoted to this fascinating case.
If you go to sabcnews.com you can click on the Schabir Shaik button on the right hand side and you will see latest news and all the background information.
Because of my interest in the trial I was intrigued to receive a press release from a student web site – namely the Durban Institute of Technology claiming that Shaik had cheated in his exams many years ago.
Now clearly what he did, or didn’t do in a university exam more than a decade ago has no bearing on the current case, but it does give some additional information on a fascinating character who has had more than his fair share of the limelight in the last few weeks.
The address of the DIT online site is impossibly long – please change it guys – so I am going to put the link on the cybersurf blog. Go to www.cybersurf.blogspot.com and you will find the address.
The site is a really good example of what you can do with minimal resources, and on the line to tell us more about it is Tara Turkington, - a lecturer at DIT.
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That was Tara Turkington, a senior lecturer in journalism at DIT and a founder member of the DIT online site. You will find a link to the site at the Cybersurf blog which you can find at www.cybersurf.blogspot.com.
I recommend you visit the site and read some interesting claims about what Schabir Shaik is alleged to have done while studying.
And with that we wrap up Cybersurf for today, be sure to tune in again next Monday for more on the best of the web.
Link: DIT Online - http://olcweb.dit.ac.za/ditonline
