Peter Dickson Four months after being suspended for allegedly running over and killing a teenager who had been dragged behind a patrol van, three Barkly East policemen are to be tried for culpable homicide and additional charges ranging from assault to attempting to defeat the ends of justice. The Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) has announced […]

Barry Streek The draft Child Justice Bill will prohibit life imprisonment sentences for children who commit offences while under the age of 18 and compel the high court to review all jail sentences of children. Central to the proposal is that every effort should be made to keep children under the age of 18 out […]

Barry Streek The imposition of interest-rate ceilings would affect those who had the greatest need for short-term emergency credit, forcing them to go to informal lenders who were even more expensive, a government-appointed inquiry into the R25-billion-a-year small-loans sector has concluded. “Setting interest-rate ceilings will restrict the flow of credit into the system by forcing […]

Commodore Dieter Gerhardt led a double life: he was a senior commander in the South African Navy, with access to ultra-sensitive information, and at the same time a master spy for the Soviet Union. Ronen Bergman spoke to him On the morning of February 3 1983 an Israel Aircraft Industries executive jet landed in Pretoria. […]

army ‘deviants’ Paul Kirk Dr Aubrey Levin, the army psychiatrist who ran a bizarre programme to “cure” gay conscripts, has been linked to secretly – and illegally – testing drugs on homosexuals and other “deviants” in the South African Defence Force (SADF). Human rights lawyer Jenny Wild this week described Levin’s tests on conscripts at […]

Laws banning cellphone use by drivers are not yet being implemented Evidence wa ka Ngobeni, Pule waga Mabe, and Ntuthuko Maphumulo Traffic officials across the country have yet to implement the government’s tough new laws banning the use of cellphones while on the road and lowering the drinking limit for drivers. The new National Road […]

The anarchy caused by the crisis in the transport industry could end when the new Transport Act comes into force Glenda Daniels Taxi and bus wars will become a thing of the horrible past when the new integrated plan for an efficient public transport system, the government’s new National Land Transport Transition Act, is implemented. […]

Johannesburg’s newest mall is tailor-made for the younger generation, but it is already beginning to age Melinda Silverman Architects hate malls. They hate their looks -ugly boxes adrift in a sea of cars – and they hate the way shopping malls have destroyed old-fashioned city streets. They hate the combination of windowless concrete brutalism and […]

Haroon Bhorat A second look As the employment equity commission (EEC) of the Department of Labour begins to assess discrimination and inequality in the labour market, it is important to inject a series of numbers and facts early on into this debate. This is to ensure that the EEC makes proclamations and decisions based on […]

Thuli Nhlapo The South African Law Commission confirmed it is conducting research on the subject of commercial sex work within the ambit of reviewing current sexual offences legislation – but said the process was still at a “sensitive stage”. The discussion paper on the matter, according to the commission, might be available by the end […]