# march (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover march. Page: Feed: --- ## [53 candidates cleared for Mowbray Muslim Cemetery election](https://vocfm.co.za/53-candidates-cleared-for-mowbray-muslim-cemetery-election/) _2026-08-22 · Daanyaal Matthews · Voice of the Cape_ By Oyisa George The Mowbray Muslim Cemetery Board election will go ahead this Sunday, with 53 candidates cleared to contest 11 positions under court oversight. The election follows a lengthy legal dispute over the governance of the cemetery and is being overseen by an independent panel appointed by the court. \[...\] The post 53 candidates cleared for Mowbray Muslim Cemetery election appeared first… ## [FlashGet (1999 - 2013)](https://rip.so/flashget.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ before broadband made downloading boring, a file that failed at ninety four percent was simply gone and you began again from zero. flashget opened several connections to the same server at once and stitched the slices back together, and more importantly it wrote them to disk as they arrived, so a dead line cost you a minute instead of an evening. it came out of china in 1999 under the name jetcar… ## [Share-Online.biz (2007 - 2019)](https://rip.so/share-online-biz.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ for more than a decade share-online was where the german-speaking internet parked files that were too big to email and too hot to host under a real name. eighteen million of them sat behind 1.3 million registered accounts, and close to three quarters of the traffic came from inside germany. on the afternoon of 16 october 2019 police raided it across three countries at once and the servers went… ## [Xelibri (2003 - 2004)](https://rip.so/xelibri.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ in january 2003 siemens announced it would sell mobile phones the way a clothing label sells clothes, in seasonal collections that were supposed to go out of date on schedule. the first four models were designed in house and came out looking like star trek props. the second four went to ideo and reached 399 euros for hardware that could barely manage a text message. all eight together sold 780,000… ## [DAG (2007 - 2008)](https://rip.so/dag.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a telephone company and a newspaper publisher started a free daily together in may 2007, on the theory that a printed page could hand you off to a website and a phone screen. dutch commuters took 400,000 copies a day at the peak, which sounds like success until you look at what advertisers were willing to pay for a reader who had not chosen to read. kpn walked away from the content side after… ## [Spinlet (2006 - 2020)](https://rip.so/spinlet.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ spinlet began in tampere in 2006 as a finnish music player that went nowhere. nigerian investors bought it in 2011 and relaunched it out of lagos as the first streaming service in sub-saharan africa, carrying african catalog nobody else had bothered to license. it reached close to two million app downloads and then hit a wall that had nothing to do with music, because nigerian bank cards could not… ## [The Lifehouse Method (2007 - 2008)](https://rip.so/lifehouse-method.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ pete townshend wrote lifehouse in 1971 as a story about music generated from a person's own data, and the who could not build it because the machines did not exist yet. in april 2007 he put those machines on a website with the composer lawrence ball and the developer dave snowdon, and about 10,500 people sat for a musical portrait assembled out of what they typed in. it ran fifteen months. the… ## [Joystick (1988 - 2012)](https://rip.so/joystick-magazine.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ joystick started on 9 november 1988 as a thirty two page weekly of cheat codes and reviews, went monthly in january 1990, and spent the next twenty two years being the french pc gaming magazine with a demo disc stuck to the front of it. the print run was 62,000 at the start and under 12,000 at the end. its publisher went into liquidation on 8 november 2012 and issue 260 appeared on the 23rd, the… ## [Jumia Food (2012 - 2023)](https://rip.so/jumia-food.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ jumia food started life as hellofood in 2012, one of rocket internet's african ventures, and took the jumia name in the 2016 rebrand. by late 2023 it was moving about eleven percent of everything jumia sold and had never once made money doing it. on 13 december 2023 the parent announced it was closing food delivery in all seven of its markets before the end of that month, to put the capital into… ## [BT MyDonate (2011 - 2019)](https://rip.so/bt-mydonate.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ bt built a donations platform in 2011 and took no commission on it, which in british fundraising was the entire point, because everybody else was keeping a percentage. by the end of 2015 more than 8,750 charities were registered and the sponsored-run economy ran through it every spring. on 21 january 2019 bt announced it was closing, said the market now had plenty of fee-free options of its own,… ## [Stay updated on your professional world (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/OBtCeN2oyq7Q) _2026-08-22 · **Sponsored**_ Keep in touch with people you know, build your career. ## [POPLINE (1973 - 2019)](https://rip.so/popline.html) _2026-08-22 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ popline was the reproductive health literature database, more than 370,000 records reaching back to 1827, run out of johns hopkins on usaid money from 1978 onward. in february 2008 its search engine was configured to treat abortion as a stop word, so a database built for family planning research could no longer find its own central subject. that lasted until the new york times printed it in april… ## [Human rights lawyer challenges government stance on coal exports to Israel](https://vocfm.co.za/human-rights-lawyer-challenges-government-stance-on-coal-exports-to-israel/) _2026-08-21 · Daanyaal Matthews · Voice of the Cape_ By Oyisa George A human rights lawyer has challenged the government’s justification for continuing coal exports to Israel, arguing that South Africa can restrict trade under international law despite World Trade Organisation rules. Speaking to VOC News, Sirhaan Ché Khan says the WTO’s non-discrimination principle is not absolute and includes \[...\] The post Human rights lawyer challenges government… ## [ADP 2026: Threads](https://www.hackneyempire.co.uk/news/adp-2026-threads-blog) _2026-08-21 · Celine Paul · Hackney Empire_ Earlier this month, we brought together over 50 young creatives to stage a brand-new musical on our main stage in just 10 days! On Sat 8 Aug, our stage was filled with the energy, imagination and creativity of the next generation of young artists, as our Artist Development Programme presented Threads. A newly devised production created and performed by over 50 young artists and creatives aged 14 –… ## [Knysna Killings Spark Calls for Urgent State Intervention After Three Councillors, Taxi Leader Targeted](https://vocfm.co.za/knysna-killings-spark-calls-for-urgent-state-intervention-after-three-councillors-taxi-leader-targeted/) _2026-08-21 · Odwa Mkentane · Voice of the Cape_ The Alliance of Citizens for Change (A.C.C.) says the killing of a sitting councillor and a former councillor within such a short period cannot be treated as routine criminal activity, and the situation in Knysna requires urgent and coordinated intervention by the State. Former Knysna Mayor Aubrey Tsengwa (48), a \[...\] The post Knysna Killings Spark Calls for Urgent State Intervention After Three… ## [Police Probe Death of 17-Year-Old Strand Secondary Learner During School Hours](https://vocfm.co.za/114863-2/) _2026-08-21 · Odwa Mkentane · Voice of the Cape_ Police are investigating the death of a 17-year-old, grade 11 learner from Strand Secondary School who died during school hours on Tuesday. Police spokesperson Wesley Twigg says a post-mortem will be conducted to determine the cause of death. “Strand police registered an inquest for investigation following the death of a \[...\] The post Police Probe Death of 17-Year-Old Strand Secondary Learner… ## [(untitled)](https://vocfm.co.za/114859-2/) _2026-08-21 · Odwa Mkentane · Voice of the Cape_ Police are investigating the death of a 17-year-old, grade 11 learner from Strand Secondary School who died during school hours on Tuesday. Police spokesperson Wesley Twigg says a post-mortem will be conducted to determine the cause of death. “Strand police registered an inquest for investigation following the death of a \[...\] The post appeared first on Voice of the Cape . ## [Two More ANC Members Killed, Police Launch Manhunt](https://vocfm.co.za/two-more-anc-members-killed-police-launch-manhunt/) _2026-08-21 · Odwa Mkentane · Voice of the Cape_ Police have launched a manhunt for the perpetrators of a shooting incident that left two ANC members dead in Knysna on Thursday evening. The killings come almost 24 hours after Ward 8 councillor and former mayor Aubrey Tsengwa was also shot dead on Wednesday night. Two ANC members killed on \[...\] The post Two More ANC Members Killed, Police Launch Manhunt appeared first on Voice of the Cape . ## [Western Cape Police Offer R100,000 Reward for Information on Multiple Murders](https://vocfm.co.za/western-cape-police-offer-r100000-reward-for-information-on-multiple-murders/) _2026-08-21 · Daanyaal Matthews · Voice of the Cape_ By Ragheema Mclean Western Cape police are offering a cash reward of up to R100,000 per case for information that could lead to the successful arrest and conviction of suspects linked to multiple murders in Gugulethu, Langa and Lingelethu West. The reward comes as detectives continue investigating a series of \[...\] The post Western Cape Police Offer R100,000 Reward for Information on Multiple… ## [International Nasheed Artist Motasem Al-Asali to Perform in Cape Town](https://vocfm.co.za/international-nasheed-artist-motasem-al-asali-to-perform-in-cape-town/) _2026-08-21 · Aneeqa Du Plessis · Voice of the Cape_ By Ragheema Mclean Internationally renowned Quran reciter and nasheed artist Dr Shaykh Motasem Al-Asali is set to bring his distinctive vocals to Cape Town as part of his “Echoes of Praise” South Africa Tour 2026. The Syrian-born artist, who hails from Damascus, will perform at Cape Town City Hall on \[...\] The post International Nasheed Artist Motasem Al-Asali to Perform in Cape Town appeared… ## [Upstream (2020 - 2022)](https://rip.so/upstream-ph.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a philippine pay-per-view film platform opened on 14 november 2020 by two directors whose cinemas had been shut for eight months. it carried the 2020 metro manila film festival, signed a video on demand agreement with universal pictures in may 2021, and premiered local films that had nowhere else to open. in august 2022 it posted a notice about scheduled system maintenance starting on 1 september.… ## [Play Both Sides Of The Lie (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/LaixASrhc7Ed) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Two operatives, one manufactured war — uncover the Complete Truth after both campaigns. ## [Gamest (1986 - 1999)](https://rip.so/gamest.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a japanese magazine about arcade machines and nothing else, first printed on 5 may 1986 and coming out every two weeks by 1993. it started on shoot 'em ups and scoring tables, then turned with street fighter ii and became the written record of competitive fighting games in the country that invented them. its reader-voted awards are still quoted by people who never held a copy. shinseisha went… ## [Orange Wednesdays (2003 - 2015)](https://rip.so/orange-wednesdays.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a mobile network promotion that turned into a national weekday habit. you sent the word film to 241 on a wednesday and the code that came back bought two cinema tickets for the price of one. it ran from 2003 to 25 february 2015 and for most of that time it was the best-known thing about orange in britain. it outlived the cinema advertising and the bafta sponsorship that had been built around it,… ## [Monster Hunter Frontier (2007 - 2019)](https://rip.so/monster-hunter-frontier.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ capcom's permanently online monster hunter, subscription funded and never once released in the west. it opened on windows in japan on 21 june 2007 and kept expanding onto hardware until six platforms were sharing the same servers, several of them consoles that had already been discontinued. two full rewrites arrived as monster hunter frontier g in 2013 and monster hunter frontier z in 2016. capcom… ## [Sendo (1998 - 2005)](https://rip.so/sendo.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a birmingham handset maker that built cheap phones for operators and then bet its future on being first out with microsoft's smartphone platform. microsoft paid for a tenth of the company and took a board seat in february 2001, the software never arrived in a state anyone could ship, and the z100 was canceled weeks before its november 2002 launch. sendo sued, settled in september 2004 on terms… ## [GNU arch (2001 - 2009)](https://rip.so/gnu-arch.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a distributed version control system written as a pile of shell scripts in 2001, years before the industry agreed that the central server was the problem. changesets instead of file revisions, and branching that happened across machines rather than through one server. all of it correct, all of it wrapped in a command line people could not tolerate. bitkeeper's collapse in april 2005 produced git… ## [Acetrax (2006 - 2013)](https://rip.so/acetrax.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a zürich company that sold films over the internet to televisions, back when a television could barely manage it, by getting its software installed at the factory instead of asking anyone to seek it out. it claimed a reach of 282 million households across 48 countries, a figure that counted sets rather than customers. sky bought it in may 2012 for the technology, folded that into its own on demand… ## [ZapMe! (1996 - 2001)](https://rip.so/zapme.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a california company that handed american schools a free computer lab and a satellite connection, and took the corner of every screen as payment. by late 2000 it had 25,000 machines in 2,300 schools with around two million students sitting in front of the advertising panel. the campaign against selling to a captive audience of minors made the whole thing politically expensive at exactly the moment… ## [Quokka Sports (1996 - 2001)](https://rip.so/quokka-sports.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a company founded to cover a yacht race by sending home the instrument readings, which turned into the argument that any sports event is a data stream and that television only ever shows you one channel of it. it built nbc's sydney 2000 site, the first live coverage of an olympic games on the internet, and nearly six million people used it. producing that coverage cost almost exactly what the… ## [Reel.com (1996 - 2000)](https://rip.so/reel-com.html) _2026-08-21 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a video store owner's recommendation cards, rebuilt as a website, with a shop bolted on because nobody pays for advice. it worked well enough that hollywood entertainment bought it for $96.9 million in 1998, one month before amazon started selling video and took the whole category in six weeks. by 1999 reel was losing thirteen cents on every dollar it took. the store was shut on 19 june 2000 and… ## Touch of Class 2027 | 07 March 2027 (19:30PM) _2026-08-21 · Hackney Empire · Hackney Empire_ Hackney's iconic variety theatre ## [Follow Releases, Get Reminders (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/e7kTOPGZcLwC) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a genre or a name and receive reminders on release day — free. ## Secure My Booking | 07 March 2027 (19:30PM) _2026-08-21 · Hackney Empire · Hackney Empire_ Hackney's iconic variety theatre ## [Food prices remain under pressure despite lower inflation](https://vocfm.co.za/food-prices-remain-under-pressure-despite-lower-inflation/) _2026-08-20 · Oyisa George · Voice of the Cape_ South Africa’s food inflation has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade, but rising fuel costs and global tensions could threaten the relief for households. Statistics South Africa says food and non-alcoholic beverage inflation slowed to 0.9% last month, with lower prices for meat and cereal products \[...\] The post Food prices remain under pressure despite lower inflation appeared first… ## [Trump’s third-country deportations raise legal concerns](https://vocfm.co.za/trumps-third-country-deportations-raise-legal-concerns/) _2026-08-20 · Oyisa George · Voice of the Cape_ The Trump administration’s use of third countries to receive deported migrants is facing growing scrutiny, with questions over the legality and treatment of those being transferred. Speaking to VOC News, former US diplomat and political analyst Brooks Spector says the practice is permitted under US law, but remains subject to \[...\] The post Trump’s third-country deportations raise legal concerns… ## Chi Comedy _2026-08-20 · Celine Paul · Hackney Empire_ Hackney's iconic variety theatre ## [AfriForum and March and March Forge Unlikely Alliance Amid Questions Over Political Motives](https://vocfm.co.za/afriforum-and-march-and-march-forge-unlikely-alliance-amid-questions-over-political-motives/) _2026-08-20 · Daanyaal Matthews · Voice of the Cape_ By Odwa Bafana Mkentane Commenting on the newly announced partnership between the AfriForum and the March and March movement, political analyst Dr Kelvin Knowles questioned the substantive collaboration and political positioning between the movements. AfriForum and the March and March movement have announced a collaborative working group on Wednesday to \[...\] The post AfriForum and March and March… ## [Operation Ubuntu Condemns Violent Clashes During Anti-Illegal Immigration March in Bellville](https://vocfm.co.za/operation-ubuntu-condemns-violent-clashes-during-anti-illegal-immigration-march-in-bellville/) _2026-08-20 · Daanyaal Matthews · Voice of the Cape_ By Odwa Bafana Mkentane The organising committee of Operation Ubuntu condemned in the strongest possible terms the bloody criminal acts of vigilante terror perpetrated yesterday in Cape Town by the March and March movement. Chaos erupted in the Bellville CBD yesterday as an anti-illegal immigration march descended into violent clashes, \[...\] The post Operation Ubuntu Condemns Violent Clashes… ## [WCED confirms investigation into alleged Inappropriate conduct at Silvertown Primary School](https://vocfm.co.za/wced-confirms-investigation-into-alleged-inappropriate-conduct-at-silvertown-primary-school/) _2026-08-20 · Daanyaal Matthews · Voice of the Cape_ By Odwa Bafana Mkentane The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has confirmed it is aware of allegations of inappropriate conduct against a staff member at a primary school in Silvertown, Athlone. It is not clear at this stage as to what specific allegations the staff member is facing. The WCED \[...\] The post WCED confirms investigation into alleged Inappropriate conduct at Silvertown Primary… ## [Police Probes Knysna Shooting that killed a ward councillor, Injured Three](https://vocfm.co.za/police-probes-knysna-shooting-that-killed-a-ward-councillor-injured-three/) _2026-08-20 · Daanyaal Matthews · Voice of the Cape_ By Odwa Bafana Mkentane Provincial police are investigating a murder and three counts of attempted murder following a shooting of ANC councillor Aubrey Tsengwa in the incident in Joodsekamp, Knysna, on Wednesday evening. Police spokesperson Wesley Twigg says according to preliminary information, the councillor was driving a vehicle with three \[...\] The post Police Probes Knysna Shooting that… ## [Hichilema Secures Second Term in Zambia](https://vocfm.co.za/hichilema-secures-second-term-in-zambia/) _2026-08-20 · Lee-Yandra Paulsen · Voice of the Cape_ Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema has secured a second term after winning the country’s 2026 Presidential Election with 61.5 percent of the vote. His re-election follows a campaign and vote-counting process marked by political tensions, with concerns raised over the treatment of opposition parties, political violence and the temporary suspension of \[...\] The post Hichilema Secures Second Term… ## [Questions Raised Over Adams’ Commission Testimony](https://vocfm.co.za/questions-raised-over-adams-commission-testimony/) _2026-08-20 · Lee-Yandra Paulsen · Voice of the Cape_ Suspended MP Fadiel Adams has continued his testimony before the Madlanga Commission, detailing allegations against senior Crime Intelligence officers and explaining his role in opening criminal cases against them. Adams told the Commission that he acted on advice from the late police general Andre Lincoln when lodging complaints. However, questions \[...\] The post Questions Raised Over Adams’… ## [Bajtek (1985 - 1996)](https://rip.so/bajtek.html) _2026-08-20 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ bajtek arrived in september 1985 as the first polish magazine about computers written for people who were not already engineers, sponsored by the communist youth union and printed in a country where owning a zx spectrum meant somebody had carried it in from abroad. the early issues sold over two hundred thousand copies with no returns. it printed basic listings you typed in by hand and it produced… ## [Prológica (1976 - 1995)](https://rip.so/prologica.html) _2026-08-20 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ brazil spent the eighties under a law that kept foreign computers out, so brazilian companies built their own versions of machines the rest of the world could simply buy. prológica was the largest of them in the home market. the cp-500 was a trs-80 model iii and the cp-200 was a zx81, and for a generation of brazilians those were not clones, they were the computer. the market reserve came apart at… ## [NEC PC-9800 Series (1982 - 2003)](https://rip.so/pc-9800-series.html) _2026-08-20 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ nec shipped the pc-9801 in october 1982 and then spent a decade owning japanese computing, past sixty percent of the market by 1991. the reason was writing. an ibm clone in the eighties could not put japanese text on a screen at a size you could read, and the pc-98 had the character rom and the display hardware to do it. ibm japan solved the same problem in software with dos/v in 1990, and windows… ## [Nixdorf Computer AG (1952 - 1990)](https://rip.so/nixdorf-computer.html) _2026-08-20 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ heinz nixdorf started a lab in essen in 1952 with borrowed money and built it into the fourth largest computer company in europe on one idea, which was that a small machine belongs in the office doing the work instead of in a rented machine room somewhere else. by 1985 the company turned over four billion marks with twenty three thousand people in forty four countries. nixdorf died at cebit in… ## [Red Hat Linux (1995 - 2004)](https://rip.so/red-hat-linux.html) _2026-08-20 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ for most of a decade red hat linux was what people meant when they said linux. it came in a cardboard box with printed manuals and a support number, and it gave the world rpm and anaconda, two pieces of plumbing that are still running today. version 9 shipped on 31 march 2003 and turned out to be the last one. red hat killed the free consumer product to concentrate on the paid enterprise line, the… ## [Yahoo! Live (2008 - 2008)](https://rip.so/yahoo-live.html) _2026-08-20 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ yahoo opened a webcam broadcasting site on 6 february 2008 and it fell over the same evening, because there was not enough bandwidth standing behind it. the product was a channel per person with a chat box beside the video, built at the exact moment every company on earth wanted one of those. the end was announced on 3 november and the site closed a month later at 7:07 in the evening, leaving the… ## [Ticketron (1965 - 1991)](https://rip.so/ticketron.html) _2026-08-20 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ a mainframe in a hotel basement and a terminal in a record shop meant you could buy one named seat in a stadium two states away, and the seat could not be sold twice. that was 1968, thirty years before most people had a modem. control data ran it for two decades and by 1990 it had seven hundred and fifty outlets against a competitor with more. carlyle bought the assets and passed them to… ## [Qimonda (2006 - 2009)](https://rip.so/qimonda.html) _2026-08-20 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ infineon moved its memory business into a separate company in 2006 and listed it in new york three months later, arriving just as dram prices fell eighty five percent in one year and another fifty eight percent in the next. qimonda built good chips on a deep trench cell nobody else used, which counts for nothing when the product sells below what it costs to make. a rescue worth 325 million euros… ## [Thinking Machines Corporation (1983 - 1994)](https://rip.so/thinking-machines.html) _2026-08-20 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ danny hillis wanted a computer built from sixty-five thousand tiny processors instead of one large fast one, and thinking machines turned that thesis into a black cube whose front panel blinked red while it worked. for a few years around 1990 it held the top of the supercomputer list, with richard feynman having worked on the router that held it together. then washington was accused of favoring… ## [BackTrack (2006 - 2013)](https://rip.so/backtrack.html) _2026-08-20 · rip.so :: the digital graveyard_ two security live cds merged in 2006 and became the thing everyone booted from a disc instead of installing. it carried the whole toolkit already configured, which is why it turned up in university labs and on machines that were not yours. offensive security rebuilt it on debian and released the result as kali linux on 13 march 2013, retiring the old name the same day. every tool inside it is…