The Kruger Park and a local community are locking horns over an extraordinary deal that allows commercial hunting in the country’s top game reserve. Fiona Macleod reports Barely a year after the Makuleke community regained ownership of 24E000ha in the Kruger National Park, it has signed an agreement with a Northern Province hunting outfit to […]

Overloading caused the plane crash near the Rand Airport near Germiston on December 6 last year. Ten people, including the pilot were killed in the disaster. Civil Aviation Authority commissioner Trevor Abrahams said in Pretoria that the aircraft’s other major problem was a loss of power in the right-hand engine.

A Durban principal had been under police investigation for paedophilia for many years, reports Paul Kirk The KwaZulu-Natal press has been peppered with advertisements celebrating the death of a former principal and scoutmaster who has emerged as one of South Africa’s worst serial paedophiles. Douglas Drysdale, who died last week, was principal of two of […]

Belinda Beresford What Is … Rhema Church? The Rhema Church, headed by Pastor Ray McCauley, is becoming one of South Africa’s most fashionable institutions. This week the church received another seal of acceptance from South Africa’s black elite when it was chosen to host the funeral of African National Congress stalwart Alfred Nzo. Last week […]

BAFANA Bafana completed their local preparations for the African Nations Cup with a 8-0 drubbing of lower division club Arcadia Shepherds. Pollen Ndlanya and Siyabonga Nomvete scored two goals each.

Hard on the heels of the Booker, won by JM Coetzee for Disgrace, comes the Whitbread, with another South African on the shortlist. Former publisher Robert McCrum looks at prizes and the literary life Fiction, money and prizes are in the air in Britain once again. The Whitbread Prize will be awarded on January 26 […]

Annalee Newitz Body Language In a quiet San Francisco neighbourhood, surrounded by views of tree-covered hills, a quaint little B&B welcomes visitors from across the country. Guests can choose from four well-appointed rooms in this refurbished turn-of-the-century house, all personally decorated by Elizabeth, the proprietor. While they’re staying at Elizabeth’s B&B – called Differences – […]

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Friday 9.45am. MPUSH Makambi, the International Boxing Organisation’s middleweight world champion, was voted the South African boxer of the year on Thursday night. Makambi was a popular winner at the 24th Annual King Korn Boxing Awards held in Sandton, although many thought the likes of Lehlo Ledwaba and Hawk Makepula would […]

Andrew Muchineripi previews Bafana Bafana’s chances at African soccer’s showpiece in Nigeria and Ghana Cometh the hour, cometh the men in the 2000 African Cup of Nations, or will it be The Boys, otherwise trading as Bafana Bafana Public Ltd under the management of Trott Moloto. Logic dictates that co-hosts Nigeria and Ghana start as […]