Cape Judge President John Hlophe misled the Judicial Services ­Commission (JSC) and the public over money he took from an asset management firm, new evidence indicates. The Mail & Guardian has obtained discovery documents that the Oasis financial services group was required to file in its aborted defamation suit against Judge Siraj Desai.

Police are investigating possible links between the Boeremag, 23 of whose members are standing trial in Pretoria, and a far right-wing group called the ”Suidlanders” (South landers). The Suidlanders shot to public notice last week as the organisation behind the Nelson Mandela ”hoax emails” feverishly circulated on the internet.

The Dubai-based consortium that owns Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront offered the provincial government R1,1-billion for the adjacent site of Somerset Hospital before any tender process began and after apparent facilitation by Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool.

Western Cape police officials have admitted they are losing the battle to maintain law and order on Cape Town’s increasingly anarchic highways because the city is so underpoliced. The city has significantly fewer police personnel than Johannesburg: There is one policeman for every 2 300 Capetonians.

South Africans pay more for gas than consumers in most parts of the world, and Capetonians are essentially subsidising Eskom’s inability to supply electricity in the region. And while Eskom’s ”Turn on to Gas” campaign in the Western Cape might provide a short-term solution to the winter energy crunch, in the longer run, consumers will fork out more for energy.

The post-Nyerere Tanzania is returning to a bustling capitalism, but there are signs of further colonialism John Matshikiza ‘Many years ago,” says my friend Juma, “Mwalimu [Julius Nyerere] didn’t allow any of these kind of businesses. He only allowed state shops. Now you see small shops everywhere.” It’s odd. I don’t feel that old. But […]

Hazel Friedman Benni McCarthy acquired his soccer prowess by ducking and diving from the gangs who ruled his home turf. Well, that’s how the “against-all-odds” theorists would like to write the rag-to-riches story of 20-year- old soccer superstar Benedict McCarthy. Surveying the terrain where McCarthy grew up, it is miraculous that he not only resisted […]