The head of the CAA allegedly contravened the Civil Aviation Act by not reporting an aircraft incident Sechaba ka’Nkosi Beleaguered Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) boss Trevor Abrahams, who was arrested this week in connection with the fraudulent issuing of pilot licences, allegedly sought to cover up a crash involving an airplane he was flying. Documents […]
AN African warrior, stuffed, preserved and on show in Spain for 100 years, is going home for burial after a Haitian doctor complained to the United Nations at the undignified treatment of his remains. Thus ends a dispute which rose to the level of an international diplomatic incident with several African states challenging the right […]
More than 80% of the proposed 17E000ha of the Coega industrial development zone is in private hands Peter Dickson With six months to go before builders begin clearing the land for the proposed R1,6-billion deepwater port at Coega outside Port Elizabeth, one man’s mine stands in the way of the Eastern Cape’s much-vaunted “economic miracle”. […]
Taking time off from the Battlefield Tourist Route, Stephen Gray hunts down the bestselling Rider Haggard Granted, with perpetual sellers of his like King Solomon’s Mines of 1885, She and so on for 60 more rattling adventures, Henry Rider Haggard put South Africa on the reader’s map of the world. His timing was right. He […]
Andrew Muchineripi The often-criticised South African Football Association (Safa) has finally made a move on the Bafana Bafana coaching front and it could pave the way for a brighter future. Much-maligned coach Trott Moloto takes one step down the ladder to senior assistant coach and Carlos Alberto Parreira or Clemens Westerhof takes charge under the […]
ARMED robbers killed 15 people in a new attack on a night bus in southeast Nigeria, in the latest in a string of incidents that have alarmed residents of the region. The attack took place near Onitsha in southeast Nigeria’s Anambra State, the Nigerian press reported. An armed gang had chased a bus along the […]
It would take decades and cost billions to map the human genome, they said. Tim Radford tells how it was done Scientists have just finished deciphering the genome – the book of human life. Their DNAblueprint will change everything. The once undreamed-of knowledge has already begun to alter agriculture, forensic science, archaeology, biology and medicine. […]
Casinos are gambling on making a cool R2- billion a year – but they’ve had to go to the ends of the earth to get people there Mary Dover The race is on for five of the six licensed casinos in Gauteng to be complete in all their glory. It’s official: kitsch, glitz and glamour […]
history Maggie O’Kane in Belfast When Cyril Ramaphosa arrived at his office in Johannesburg at 11.30am on Tuesday June 27, he ended a seven-day journey that took him across the world and into Ireland’s history books. He is a witness to what may finally be the end of 30 years of violence, human loss and […]
The applications of biotechnology have provoked debate about its ethics. Richard Holloway looks at some of the issues One way to classify people is by the tumbler test: pessimists say it is half empty, optimists half full. In most of the great debates about human nature people place themselves somewhere on the continuum between these […]