M&G reporters Ccrimes against the state unit: A squad of former murder and robbery unit detectives tasked with probing People against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) related crimes. The unit was initially known as the Pagad task team, but later changed its name. It reports to Western Cape police Director Leonard Knipe, the man at the […]

Journalist and rape survivor Charlene Smith last week chose to testify in open court in the trial of the person who allegedly raped her. Rape survivors usually choose to testify in a court closed to the public. She explains her decision Two-and-a-half centuries ago, French philosopher, Alexis de Tocqueville, writing on American democracy observed, “The […]

The marque of the cat returns to Formula One racing, as Jaguar becomes the latest manufacturer to pursue sales through the phenomenal success of the sport, writes Paul Weaver Jaguar, after a catnap worthy of Rip van Winkle, is back in motor sport. The famous marque, which in the 1950s won a considerable reputation at […]

dispute Fiona Macleod A magnificent environmental education and conference centre is falling through the cracks of the dispute between Mpumalanga and Northern Province authorities about who owns the Bushbuckridge Nature Reserve. Mpumalanga spent R2-million on the centre, which is inside the reserve, but stopped building when it became clear the reserve falls within Northern Province. […]

THE African Super Cup match between hosts Raja Casablanca of Morocco and Africa Sports of Cote d’Ivoire has been rescheduled for the weekend of March 4-5, the organisers announced on Friday. The annual fixture between the winners of the Champions League and the Cup Winners Cup was planned for January 15 or 16, but these […]

MICHAEL FINCH, Alice | Thursday 7.00pm. DARREN Maddy boosted his test hopes as he scored a match winning 133 to help England beat an Eastern Province/Border Invitation XI by 153 runs on Thursday. England scored an impressive 309 for eight off their 50 overs as Maddy plundered his runs off just 116 balls with 11 […]

Barry Streek MPs will now get a basic salary package of R274 800 a year or R22 900 a month but their increases, published in the latest Government Gazette, come to a modest 4%. Members of the National Assembly and the permanent members of the National Council of Provinces do get other perks – including, […]

Guy Willoughby Review of the week Reviewers like to begin notices of Not the Midnight Mass by reminiscing about the first time they caught their act (except in Cape Town – Cape Town reviewers, like Cape Town police, rarely catch anything). I’ll quickly observe, then, that I first saw the famous a cappella foursome from […]

The Bushbuckridge Nature Reserve is being plundered while politicians squabble over who it belongs to, and who will take responsibility for it, reports Fiona Macleod Armed syndicates are pillaging truckloads of rare indigenous trees from a 7E000ha game reserve on the border between Mpumalanga and Northern Province while politicians and conservation authorities squabble about who […]

FORMER president Nelson Mandela left South Africa for Berlin, Germany, on Wednesday night to launch the “Cities without Slums” initiative. His spokeswoman Zelda la Grange said Mandela was invited by the World Bank and the United Nation Centre for Human Settlements. Mandela is scheduled to address a meeting on Thursday at a hotel in Berlin […]