David Davies Golf Tiger Woods, for whom record breaking seems to be the normal situation, has equalled one of the more unlikely marks in golf, and is now in pursuit of one of the most preposterous. The world number one, whose win at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am this week took his successive United States […]

Hawkers who recently moved to the Rockey Street Market complain that the rental is too high, writes Jubie Matlou It’s a rare sight in South Africa to spot a white hawker selling his wares side by side with a black woman grilling mielies on a brazier. Andy McKay is one of the few white hawkers […]

Howard Barrell The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is turning its guns on tax fraudsters who are cheating the country out of up to R30- billion a year. Some large companies are also involved in fraudulent tax evasion schemes, according to SARS officials. The SARS says it is poised to crack the fraudulent schemes these […]

Marianne Merten The Democratic Party in the Western Cape wants to team up with its provincial coalition partner, the New National Party, to take on the African National Congress in the forthcoming local government elections. “It’s important the uni-city will be governed by the parties that form the coalition,” said DP Western Cape leader Hennie […]

JUDGMENT has been reserved by the Pretoria High Court until Friday on whether loose-forward AJ Venter is contactually binded to the Golden Lions, or whether he is entitled to play his rugby for the Sharks. The Lions applied for a High Court order declaring that Venter cannot play for any other side, and that they […]

everyone Nalisha Kalideen Although South Africa’s Bill of Rights is one of the best in the world, most people are still not aware of it or their rights as enshrined in it, says Paula McBride, the co-ordinator of the recently formed Rights Africa. It is because of this lack of human rights awareness within South […]

She fled Pinochet’s junta and began to write as a way of coping with exile and loss. She became a best-selling novelist but her masterpiece was a memoir of her daughter, who died at 26. Maya Jaggi on a feminist pioneer of Latin American literature Isabel Allende divides her life starkly into two: before and […]

John Naughton Here is a story to make megacorp executives choke on their muesli: eToys.com, a huge online retailer of toys based in California, has been humiliated by a civil disobedience campaign orchestrated by a community of Internet activists. Late last year, eToys made the mistake of suing a group of Swiss multimedia artists and […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni South Africa’s oldest leper colony is to be turned into a top tourism attraction in Gauteng, with lavish five star hotels, nature parks, and an up-market shopping mall. Last year the Gauteng Department of Health said the 125-year-old hospital, West Fort, was outdated and should be sold off to the private […]