An enterprising ‘scam-baiter’ runs a website that ensnares 419 email fraudsters, turning the tables on the crooks. Estimated to be a -million industry, Rev Tightnuts of the Holy Church of St Gullible got his own back recently.
In the movie Mr Bones, the lead character, a white guy who for some reason ends up as the chief traditional healer for some black tribe, gave some insight into our fascination with race, particularly regarding white kids who are raised in black communities.
The universe is fixated on Nelson Mandela because he is a man of the future and not the past.
President Thabo Mbeki is likely to sign controversial legislation this month to outlaw the use of lethal force against fleeing suspects who do not pose an immediate threat.
Only weeks after a mob turned on alleged thugs in Braamfischerville on the West Rand after residents accused police of abandoning them to gangsters, the police have again been accused of indifference as a Soweto gangster called ‘Bin Laden’ runs amok.
Locally deployed Cuban doctors who refuse to pay the compulsory 57% of their salaries to their government or send their 15-year-old children back to their motherland, can do so without fear of being fired from South African hospitals.
The laws requiring that domestic workers be registered could eventually clear the South African job market of unskilled foreign workers, lawyers predict and unionists fear.
The health minister is to petition the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal against a compulsion order issued by the Pretoria High Court.
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/ 1 February 2002
Robert Kirby on the issue of renaming comes out as a sublime racist who feels that had it not been for whites no one would have progressed or developed. Let me remind him that before Europe and Asia became civilised, most of his ilk were nomads and bandits who killed, robbed and maimed until Alexander […]
Judith Watt THE son of super-surgeon Dr Chris Barnard and a member of the Meerlust wine dynasty are to join Boss Models’s top overseas operation, swelling the ranks of the blue- blooded and beautiful strutting on world catwalks. Chris Barnard, who joined Boss Models’s Cape Town business last year, is to fly to New York […]