Extravagance has wiped out hard-won financial gains at Unisa, insiders say. Unisa is lavishing millions of rands on accommodation for its new vice-chancellor, Dr Barney Pityana, in a stately historic mansion in Pretoria.
A year ago I was raped. With a gun pointed to my head, I gave up my independence to a stranger because I was afraid. It seemed a better choice to give him his few minutes of pleasure and walk away with my life. Like Magardie, I didn’t think rape was the worst thing that could happen to anyone.
The presidency is breaking out of its circle of ”yes-men” to hire advisers from the political mainstream. The appointment of three new faces announced last week is being described as an attempt to ”beef up the sensible end of the scale in the presidency”.
Africans must find their own solutions to their problems rather than pointing fingers. Dinesh D’Souza’s two cheers for colonialism must look exceptionally preposterous to some. If I were John Matshikiza I wouldn’t have reacted as furiously as he.
Millions of rands illegally invested by two KwaZulu-Natal municipalities may never be recovered, as they appear to have disappeared into a web of companies currently being liquidated. Treasurers were persuaded to make secret loans totalling R26-million.
OBITUARY: World-renowned popularising palaeontologist controversially revised Darwin’s theories and took a political stand on science. Profesor Stephen Jay Gould was an unlikely figure to have been canonised in his lifetime by the United States Congress.
A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on Wednesday night, killing two Israelis, and intensifying fears that the relative lull was over. The explosion was the third suicide bombing inside the borders of the Jewish state since Sunday.
Irish rock star Bono’s voice cracked on Friday as he tried to explain the emotions he felt talking to a group of mothers infected with the Aids virus.
One measure of a good society is whether individuals are free to do as they choose on matters that principally concern only them. The debate about heroin, cocaine and marijuana touches precisely on this.
Instead of being admitted to a clinic for a surgical abortion, women may soon have the option of a ”take-home” pill to end a pregnancy. The drug will be piloted at five designated sites countrywide from the end of September by the Women’s Health Project.